Closed Message

[Dovermen]

I have been pursuing a Captive Portal solution that will do the following for a local network with Internet open to customers. The captive portal prevents Internet access while the business is closed and instead redirects all web page requests to a closed message. The captive portal prevents Internet access until Terms of Use have been accepted in a web page while the business is open.

The Captive Portal does prevents Internet access until continuing pass the Terms of Use web page. The ability to setup the business hours each day of the week to redirect all web page requests to a closed message is needed in this scenario. This helps encourage customers to stop browsing right as the business closes and leave so that staff can close. The closed message would prevent Internet access and explaining to the customer that the business is closed no intervening from the staff. The wired ports and wireless access points would not need to be manually turned off each day. There is no need for authentication in this scenario. The network needs to be open to any customer.