I use 2.9.8 and want to setup a hotspot. I enabled eth1 for the Internet and using winbox eth2 for the hotspot using hotspot setup.

My problem is that if I connect to the hotspot interface (eth2) and HTTP CHAP is used to authenticate, nothing happens - no login screen. return "page unavailable"

if I enable HTTP PAP and disables HTTP CHAP, the login screen takes ages (and I mean about 2 - 5 min!) to appear but otherwise everything works fine.

It also takes very long to be directed from the login page to the webpage I am looking for (after I have logged in).

What am I doing wrong ?

Thanks for the help.

first - can you test the speed between the router and the pc? you can use the bandwidth tester from our webpage.

also try to upgrade the router to 2.9.11, we have a lot of improvements there.

Hi, thanks for the response.

I upgraded to 2.9.11

Did a system reset and reconfigured router.

I use a 500 board. Using Winbox I configured eth1 with dhcp client which connects to the DSL modem and ran hotspot setup for wilan1 also using Winbox.

PC connects fine with the ap. When opening the webbrowser, the login screen takes about two minutes to appear. Once logged on, the next Internet webpage also takes ages to appear.

I can ping Internet adresses so it can not be a DNS issue.

I used two different pcs to test and both give the same problem.

The wifi link speed is in excess of 11 MBps for RX/TX

Any ideas ?

If you don't have any DOTs in your hotspot name, try renaming it...

For us "hotspot" was always slow and sometimes didn't even work... but "hot.spot" worked fine, it was something to do with the way windows was trying to use the search domain.

If you don't have any DOTs in your hotspot name, try renaming it...

For us "hotspot" was always slow and sometimes didn't even work... but "hot.spot" worked fine, it was something to do with the way windows was trying to use the search domain.

I am having the same problem, as the BOX restarted it was ok, but after few minutes, the login page was delayed.

HotSpot Name as in where you refering to? please explain.

Thanks.

Hi,

I got mine working!

Upgraded to 2.9.12 and disabled webproxy-test package and voila !!!

Its working fine now.