Displaying advertising to Public Spot users

You can optionally display advertising to Public Spot users at configurable time intervals. The Public Spot shows the advertisement in the normal browser window of the user and not using a pop-up, since all modern browsers normally block pop-ups. In the Public Spot station table, a client can have one of three states:

Authenticated: The client is logged on and can surf in Internet.
Unauthenticated: The client is not logged on and cannot surf in Internet.
Advertisement: The next time a client calls a URL, it is redirected to an advertisement URL.

You have the option to exclude certain networks and user agents from the display of advertisements by means of a whitelist.

In the device configuration, select the menu branch Public Spot > Server and click on Advertisement settings.
Enable the Show advertisements checkbox.

You can now change the interval between advertisement displays, and also other settings.
Under Interval you specify the time in minutes after which the Public Spot reroutes a user to an advertisement URL. With an interval of 0 forwarding occurs directly after login.
Click on Advertisement URLs to add an advertisement URL. If you add multiple URLs, the Public Spot displays them in sequence after the specified interval.
Optional: Click on User agent white list to add user agents, which the Public Spot excludes from the display of advertisements.
Optional: Click on Free networks to add networks, which the Public Spot excludes from the display of advertisements. This can be used in various ways, for example to enter the automatic search URLs used by the browser, e.g. *.google.com. Typically, a browser sends keyboard input at the address bar to a search engine; by setting the exception, the advertisement page does not responding to this.

Note: Login-free networks are generally ad-free networks. There is no need to explicitly include these networks into the whitelist.
Close all dialog windows by clicking on OK.

Public Spot users will be redirected to an advertisement URL after the specified time interval unless they are using a whitelisted user agent or they are located in a free network.

The timing of the advertisements refers to the session time of the active Public Spot clients. If a client stop sending data for a certain time, then the interval before the Public Spot displays advertising again will be delayed by this time.