Cambium

This article describes the installation and configuration steps for Cambium APs. Our test was performed with cnPilot e410 and cnPilot e600 devices.

Connecting

Please reset the Cambium access point to factory settings to avoid problems with some previous configuration.

Go to the Configuration section and from the left menu navigate to the WLANs page.

Add a new WLAN or click the edit icon to setup an existing WLAN.

Basic Settings

SSID: Set your SSID name ( in this example WiFi Guest)

Enable: Ticked

VLAN: 2

Mesh: Off

Security: Open

Radius: 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Client Isolation: Network Wide

Cambium-WLAN-SSID

Advance settings

Max Clients:127

VLAN Pooling: Disable

Session Timeout: 28800

Inactivity Timeout: 1800

DTIM Interval: 1

Proxy ARP : Enable

Unicast DHCP : Enable

Save changes and continue with the configuration.

AAA Servers

Authentication Server

Accounting Server

Advance settings

Authentication Server

Host: 192.250.224.84

Port: 1812

Accounting Server

Host: 192.250.224.84

Port: 1813

Advance settings

Server Pool Mode select Load Balance.
As NAS Identifier type your AP MAC address.
Enable Dynamic VLAN.

As Accounting Mode select Start Stop.
Accounting Packet: Disable.

Sync Accounting Records: Disable

Save changes and go to the Guest Access page.
Guest Access
Use the following settings and leave others as default.
Basic Settings
Portal Mode: External Hotspot
Access Policy: RADIUS
Redirect Mode: HTTP
Redirect Hostname:
WISPr Clients External Login: Ticked
External Page URL: https://connectwifi.cloud/login
External Portal Type: Standard
Success Action: Redirect User to External URL
Prefix Query Strings in URL: Ticked
Redirect URL: Type your website URL

Advanced Settings
Redirection URL Query String:
– Client IP: Ticked
– RSSI: Ticked
– AP Location: Ticked
Redirect: Tick HTTP-only
Redirect User Page: 1.0.0.0
Redirection Port:
Session Timeout: 28800
Inactivity Timeout: 1800

Pre-Login
connectwifi.cloud
192.250.224.84
connect.socialwifionline.com
facebook.com
linkedin.com
kickbox.com
https://app.millionverifier.com/
cambiumnetworks.com
Pre-login- Whitelist
Save Changes

Always white list all the Social sites as described here. Kindly scroll down to the bottom and white list all.

From the Configuration section, you can make other changes as needed for your network and then click Apply Configuration to save the settings.

Troubleshooting

If the mobile you are testing is not reaching the Hotspot splash page, but instead you get 404 not found error, please make sure that you have typed http:// or https:// in the Redirect URL field.