I'm assuming he's serving an RV park or the like, which is why he's using 
hotspot to begin with.

> On Jan 21, 2018, at 5:39 PM, Blair Davis via Mikrotik-users 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> So, your tower talks directly to individual users gear?  So they have to 
> call you every time they buy another piece of cheap wireless junk?
> 
> Why wouldn't you have a CPE radio connected to a router that allows all 
> the clients gear to connect to it?
> 
> That way you don't have to care what they connect to it and don't have 
> to track all those MAC addresses...
> 
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> On 1/21/2018 6:45 PM, ralph via Mikrotik-users wrote:
>> I have a lot of sites using MT Hotspot with an offsite RADIUS backend that 
>> handles billing and customer speed control, etc.
>> 
>> This is fine for when the customer has a browser equipped device. They just 
>> log in via the portal and away they go.  But now there are many new devices 
>> that don't use browsers,  things like smart thermostats, smart TVs, certain 
>> game consoles and who knows what else.  MT (and my backend) have MAC 
>> Authentication (where you set MAC as one of the login methods in the 
>> hotspot) for those sorts of devices. However that only works if the device 
>> initiates an HTTP connection. On HTTPS, no auto login  and on a lot of these 
>> other devices no auto login either.
>> 
>> So I end up having to put these device's  MACs into an IP Binding table in 
>> the MT hotspot.    Works great.  But I lose all tracking of the user, I 
>> can't control their speed, and I don't even know they are on line.   But the 
>> worst part is that now I have to manually track whether or not their 
>> subscription is current. Sometimes I forget to and their devices get free 
>> service for months.
>> 
>> But I think there must be a way I can do the following:
>> 
>> 1. Let their MAC just pass through without going through the hotspot.
>> 2. Limit the device's speed to that of their subscription
>> 3. And optionally, have the rule go away on a certain date (or after a 
>> certain period of time)
>> 
>> I'd be ecstatic if I could just get #1 and #2.
>> 
>> I don't know anything about "Manual Queues", only the ones the hotspot 
>> creates upon login.
>> 
>> Can someone help me out?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Ralph
>> 
>> 
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