Setting default values for the Public Spot wizard

The following section describes how you define default values for the New user wizard (setup wizard Create Public Spot account) to meet your needs. Public Spot administrators can select the values defined here (e.g. for validity periods, bandwidth profiles, etc.) from selection lists when they are setting up new users and printing out vouchers.

Note: Exceptions to this are the values for User name pattern and Password length shown in the dialog below, which only serve as default values for the device.

Start LANconfig and open the configuration dialog for the device.
Change the view to Public Spot > Wizard.
In Default validity periods, define which default validity periods for user accounts and vouchers are to be available by default.
The new-user wizard takes the shortest validity period as the default.
Under Max. concurrent logins you select the maximum number of devices that have access to the user account simultaneously.
The value 0 stands for 'unlimited'. Whether or not it is generally possible for a user to login with the multiple devices at the same time is determined by the Public Spot administrator with a separate setting in the wizard when creating a new user.
In User name pattern you specify the pattern used by the new user wizard to create usernames.
You can enter up to 19 characters, whereby the wizard will automatically create a unique number for every user if you enter "%n". The default description user%n will be shown later on the voucher, for example, as user12345.
Using Password length you specify the length of the passwords that the new user wizard generates for Public Spot access.
The default length is 6 characters. If you would like to have longer passwords, keep in mind that guests can make mistakes when entering them, which can cause unnecessary problems and complaints.
Optional: Under Bandwidth profiles you set the uplink and downlink limits for each Public Spot user.
Learn more about this setting under Manage bandwidth profiles.
Public Spot via WLAN only: Using Public Spot SSIDs you specify the names of the Public Spot networks taken by default when you create new user accounts using the Create Public Spot account wizard.

The Create Public Spot account wizard automatically marks the specified network names as SSID selected when creating a new Public Spot user. If you employ an access point or WLAN controller, you are able to select several network names as default values in order to give users access to different WLANs. When creating a new user and subsequently printing the voucher, these SSIDs are also printed out on the voucher.

Using the arrow buttons, you can change the order in which the SSIDs are displayed. In this way, the most popular SSIDs can be placed at the top of the list.

That's it! This concludes the configuration of the default values for the Public Spot wizard.