Thanks for the explanation. Let me see if I understood it correctly, Mikrotik's own radius server is called userman, and if I wanted to use a remote(different) radius server I will configure it in the Radius tab just under the Log tab , it that right? You would still need to configure the radius ta...

The problem is the "Captive Portal" browsers all the phones seem to implement these days. I assume when you say "blink" it starts to load and the entire browser vanishes completely, this happens because as soon as android detects internet it closes the captive browser. I found wh...

It sounds like you would want to use Hotspot to create a captive portal when the user logs in to the network (hotspot intercepts traffic until the user logs in). Then when they type their username/password in to the box Mikrotik will send a radius request (radius is a protocol) to userman to authent...

An SSD will generally use less power, but it may not be enough. You could also use an external drive with it's own power supply if it's an option.