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A site is a physical location where you want to provide Internet access to your users. For example, a hotel, a restaurant, a shopping mall, etc. An organisation will usually have several sites if they have several locations. For example, a restaurant chain will have a site for each restaurant, with their own access points (APs).
Name
The name of the site is an identifier that is used to refer to it everywhere in the user interface. This is shown to the users when they try to access the Internet; and included in the emails sent to them.
The site name will contain the “wifi” word when useful, so you don’t need to include it in the name. For example, “Hotel California” would be a good name, but “Hotel California Public wifi” wouldn’t.
Client list
The client list is the list of clients that’s used within the site. Think of it as a separate file for one or multiple sites. This allows the clients to be further compartimentalised if needed. For example, you might manage multiple restaurant chains, and you want to have a separate client list for each chain.
Visit the client list documentation page for more information on how to create and manage client lists.
Contact email
The contact email is a public email address that is shown to the users to contact the site owner.
Landing page
The landing page is the page that is shown to the users after they successfully connect to the network. For example, it could be your company’s website, a survey, or a page with offers or something else.
Captive portal configuration
A captive portal in WiLake is the configuration of the landing page that is shown to the users when they try to access the Internet. It is used to authenticate them and show them the terms and conditions applicable to the use of the network.
We separate the captive portal configuration from the site configuration because it is usually shared between multiple sites. For example, you might have multiple sites for a restaurant chain, but they all share the same captive portal configuration (same logo, images, authentication methods, etc.).
You can read more about the captive portal configuration in the captive portal documentation.
Limits
The limits are the limits that are applied to each user when they connect to the network. For example, you might want to limit the bandwidth that each user can use (e.g. 1 Mbps), or the amount of data that they can use (e.g. 1 GB). You can also limit the time that they can use the network (e.g. 1 hour).