PisoWiFi

PisoWiFi operations, captive portals, vouchers, bandwidth control, customer isolation, monitoring, and reliable small-site networking.

Networking
Captive Portal Triage: Connected, No Login Page, No Internet

Find the first failed captive-portal layer, from association and addressing through discovery, authentication, access policy and upstream routing. Compare clients and preserve logs before changing settings; discovery and NAT behavior depend on the design.

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Networking
PisoWiFi Daily Operator Checklist

A PisoWiFi daily operations checklist for checking power, ISP, Wi-Fi, DHCP, DNS, captive portal login, vouchers, sessions, and daily logs.

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Networking
Stop Binding Paid Wi-Fi Time To A Phone MAC Address

Design paid Wi-Fi access around recoverable vouchers or accounts rather than a phone's observed MAC address. Check private-address behavior, purchase recovery and duplicate-credit prevention on the actual devices and portal.

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Networking
RouterOS Device Mode Can Silently Disable PisoWiFi HotSpot

Inspect RouterOS device mode and HotSpot's inactive reason before rebuilding a PisoWiFi portal. Preserve feature overrides, paid-session records and local recovery before any physically confirmed, rebooting mode change.

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Networking
Why MikroTik PCC Breaks HotSpot On Dual WAN

Understand MikroTik HotSpot's default-table limitation before applying PCC exclusions. Diagnose local routing separately from general load balancing, then plan portal, payment and WAN-failure checks against a known-working path.

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Networking
PisoWiFi E-Wallet Reconciliation When Webhooks Retry

Keep payment events, authoritative status and applied PisoWiFi credit linked but distinct. Design for duplicate webhooks, concurrent delivery and restarts without double credit or restoration of a stale transaction ledger.

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PisoWiFi Operations Notes: Start Here

A practical guide to PisoWiFi operations: site planning, backhaul, power, router design, customer isolation, vouchers, bandwidth control, monitoring, maintenance, and growth.

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