A client of mine is asking me to figure out how to configure his unsecured wireless network at his pizzeria cafe so that when customers sign onto his wireless network using their laptops, their laptop homepage (for IE, Firefox, Mac Browser) is automatically redirected to his website homepage. I've seen this happen many times in hotels, universities, etc. for user-authentication purposes. However, I am not sure how to configure this type of setting. He has a Westell Wireless Modem/Router with Verizon. I'm not sure if there is some kind of configuration setting in this Westell that I could adjust this for, or do we have to go buy a more specific router? Apparently, Panera Bread is capable of doing this, and I plan on testing this feature out to look at how it might be done based on looking at the address bar and status bar to see if there is some kind of programming coding that does this. Do you think some kind of intermediary server is needed? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank You, Ryan

As far as I know that it done by a Group Policy on the server. For example, anyone logging in as guest would automatically be sent to that page if there were a GP for the guest group. Seach google for group policy. I wouldn't know how to do it if there were no server on the network. That's not a setting that would be handled by the modem or the router.

Some routers can actually do that, but I honestly don't know which ones. Most companies like panera bread have an appliance specifically engineered to do this type of thing built into the firmware of the appliance. Please help survivors of Hurricane Katrina! www.redcross.org

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