Monday, December 18, 2017

How do you guys feel about Hospitality WIFI and allowing streaming devices?

Hey guys,

Those of you who setup WIFI in the hospitality industry, or similar, what are your thoughts on allowing devices to bypass the splash page/captive portal? We continue to get "requirements" from places that say "smart devices/streaming devices" have to work.

Those devices obviously can't authenticate through my accounting server and splash page server and accept terms and agreement, which all of the QOS/per user speeds/per property are done off the WLC as well. So enabling WPA2 WLAN and dropping it into their AP group and broadcasting two SSID's is my only current option which opens up having to do QOS on the WLC for that network, setup additional mDNS services to match all these potential devices, I use interface groups so multiple WLAN's(from multiple properties, centralized WLC) would be tied to a single interface group I'm not sure how mDNS will like that, as I've never used it in a centralized/multi-property type scenario.

Are you guys encountering these requests, what are you doing about them?



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