User's Guide

TRENDnet User’s Guide

TEW-821DAP

First, enable Captive Portal, enter user name and password accounts for users to

authenticate and set an authentication timeout value. Then click Save at the bottom of

the page to save the settings.

Select the Login Method for connecting to your captive portal WiFi network. At the

 User name and password – Requires users to enter a user name and

password for authentication to connect to your captive portal WiFi

network which must be defined in the Users List.

Note: Multiple users can use the same user account to log into your captive

portal WiFi network.

o To create a new user account, next to Setting Username and

Password, enter the user name and password for the new user

account and click Add. Repeat to add more user accounts.

 Single password – Requires users to enter a single password to connect

your captive portal WiFi network which must be defined in the Setting

Single Password settings.

o To specify a single password, next to Setting Single Password,

enter the new password or click Generate to randomly generate a

new password.

 Both – Users can enter either a user name and password or single

password to connect to your captive portal WiFi network. Both prompts

will be displayed on the captive portal page and user can select either

method to authenticate.

 Next, specify the Authentication Timeout settings. This is the session time

period (minutes) which users are allowed to be logged in to your wireless

network. Once the time expires, users will automatically logged and will

need to log back in through the captive portal page again in order to

reconnect to your wireless network. It is recommended to set a value to

ensure authentication sessions are closed after a certain time period.

Setting the value to 0 minutes allows users to be authenticated and

connected to your captive portal WiFi network without any time

restrictions.

Click Save when you have completed these settings.

 After your users authenticate and connect to your captive portal WiFi

network, you may want to redirect your users to a specific URL, address, or

website for advertisement purposes.

To enable this feature on your captive portal WiFi network, click the Redirect drop-

down and select Enable. Enter the URL/address/website in the field Redirect URL. Click

Save at the bottom of the page to save the settings.

Note: The prefix http:// or https:// must be included when entering

URLs/addresses/websites (ex. https://www.trendnet.com)