Manual login override for Wi-Fi network with iOS

Monday, April 8th, 2013 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor

Let’s say you are at a meeting at a hotel and you are given a preferred set of Wi-Fi credentials to use. However, if the hotel is also an iPass hotspot, you may have had a problem with iPass Open Mobile wanting to log you into the iPass hotspot.

The manual login addresses a scenario where an end user has an alternate set of credentials that they would like to use on an SSID which is also a part of the iPass network. Another example is that frequent flyers might have a set of credentials with their frequent flyer program that allows them to access the airport lounge free of charge. In this case, they would not want iPass to handle the login for the airport lounge SSID.

This release allows a manual login process when the user has valid iPass credentials but wants to use alternate credentials to access a particular Wi-Fi hotspot. The user would enter the SSID in the client’s manual login list so that our client would skip trying to log in even if the SSID was in our directory. The end user can then use the normal captive portal web page to type in their other credentials for access.

Remember: if you want to use the iPass network instead, you will need to go into the Manual Login Settings and remove that network entry.

Tags: iOS, iPad, iPhone, wi-fi access