Advanced Setup Guide for Airspot Router

1. Router Setup Interface
2. Static Connection
3. L2TP and PPTP Connections
4. Change the Password to the Firmware UI
5. Change the Pass Phrase of “Airspot-Private”

Router Setup Interface

1. After your Router is connected to the computer via the Ethernet (LAN) cable, visit http://192.168.4.1 on your browser.
2. Log into the firmware UI with the username as Admin.
3. The password is the last 6 digits of your Router's MAC ID (pasted at the back of your Router), along with colons after every 2 digit.
   For example, if your MAC ID is 01:2E:34:5C:67:R8, the password to your Router's firmware UI will be 5C:67:R8.
4. Make sure that you type the alphabets in capital, in case there are alphabets in the Router's MAC ID.
5. If the credentials are authorized, the following screen should be presented to you -
   
   
6. According to the Internet connection information provided by your ISP, select WAN Connection Type from the drop down box.

Static Connection

1. If you choose Static, then you are presented with the following screen -
   
   
2. Enter the details about Static WAN connection settings provided by your ISP, and click Save Changes.

L2TP and PPTP Connections

1. If you select your connection type is either of L2TP or PPTP, the following screen opens up -
   
   
2. Enter the settings for the L2TP or PPTP WAN connection provided by your ISP, and click on Save Changes.

Change the Password to the Firmware UI

1. Click on the Settings tab.
2. An user interface, like the one below, should open up -
   
   
3. Enter new credentials, and click on Save Changes.

Change the Pass Phrase of “Airspot-Private”

1. Click on the Wireless tab.
2. An user interface, like the one below, should open up -
   
   
3. At the bottom, there is a section called Airspot Service.
4. Enter the new Pass Phrase and click on Save Changes.
5. 1.Voila! Your Pass Phrase for the “Airspot-Private” SSID should be changed, now.

Airspot Owner Dashboard User Guide

Overview

The dashboard will allow the Airspot owner to manage visitor and guest accounts. It also allows the owner to change the password and check session history of guests, visitors and roaming airspot owners.

Airspot Owner has a profile page which is published by him/her for social networking and will be viewed by the visitors and guests who connect to his/her network. The Dashboard for Airspot owner will facilitate modification of his/her profile, creation of guest user for his/her network, viewing the session details of guest users and visitors who had used his/her network for a given period of time. Airspot owner will be able to see the session history of his roaming sessions as well.

The dashboard is divided into the following sections:

1. Home
2. Edit Profile
3. Settings
4. Find Airspot
5. FAQ
6. Logout

Home

1. Type the following URL in any browser - http://airspot.in/Airspot. Login page (Screen1) is displayed as shown below.

Screen1 – Login Page

2. Enter login credentials and click Sign In. Your home page (Screen2) is displayed as shown below.

Screen2 – Home page

Edit Profile

3. To change your home page / public profile click on Edit Profile tab in Screen2, Screen3 is displayed as shown below.

Screen3 – Edit Profile

• Make it public: Mark this box, if you want others to see your profile
• Name: Enter your name
• About your location: Enter few lines about your location
• Shout out to your visitor: Enter a message to people who visit your profile

• Social Networking Information: Your various social networking pages like twitter, flicker and blogs can be linked to the home page. Now, if you just share your Airspot profile with others, they can easily read through all the social networking sites that you are maintaining. The advantage for you is that it is easy to navigate from one networking site to the other from your Airspot profile page to update the contents
• Enter blog URL: Enter the URL of your blog or any other blog that you would like to share with the world. Default URL is http://airspot.in/blog

• Enter Twitter Id: Enter your twitter id or a twitter id that you are following. Default Twitter Id is airspotwifi
• Flicker Screen Name: Enter flickr screen name to display images on the home page. You can find your Flickr screen name from http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/screenname/. Default flickr screen name is airspot

• Location Name:  Enter a name for your location.  Name your location with a name as unique as possible.  For Example:  If your flat number is 1202 in “A” block of Mani Apartments, then the name for your location can be “Airspot-12thA-ManiApts”
• Landmark:  Enter the landmark for finding your location, this will make it easy for people to find your location
• Address1, Address2, Country, State, City, Pincode:  Enter the address of the location.  Please enter the right address, as it will help the bills to reach you on time
• Billing Address:  If the billing address is different, mark this box and enter the billing address
• Upload | Delete:  Click Delete to delete the photograph and Upload to add new photograph

Important:

It is very important that you fill up all the details in Screen3, because this will help for better communication, billing and for identification of the location.   Depending on the completion of the form, your location will be rated as Gold, Silver or Bronze and according to the rating you can avail many benefits.  

Rating:
Bronze – You will be awarded Bronze, if you have given only your mobile number and email address.  

Silver – You will be awarded Silver, if you have given details about your location and other additional information.  This will help for the revenue share to reach you on time and also the Airspot communities will be able to view your public profile.

Gold – You will be awarded Gold, if you have given your credit card details and have also done one complete online transaction.  The Gold award makes you a privileged Airspot owner and you can avail the facility to buy and sell your product online and Airspot will help you to promote your location

4. Click Save Changes, Screen4 is displayed as shown below.

Screen4

• - This indicates whether the Airspot router has been online for the past one hour.

There are some more additional features that can be added to the public profile page and the features are:  Links, Twitter Updates, Profile Completion, Testimonials and Latest from the blog

Description of other sections in the home page:

1. Links:  In this section you can add links to any website of your interest that you would want your visitors also to visit.  To edit the links, click on   icon, Screen5 is displayed as shown below.

Screen5

• Enter Title of the website, URL of the website and the New Site Name and click on Submit button.

2. Twitter Updates: To change the twitter ID, click on   icon, Screen6 is displayed as shown below.

Screen6

• Enter the twitter ID in the text box and click on OK button

3. Profile Completion:  If you have skipped entering details in some of the sections in Screen2, then the incomplete sections will be listed under % profile completion section as shown in Screen7 below.  You can add details and complete your profile at any time in the future.

Screen7

• To complete the profile, click on the remaining profile section name link to be filled.  Screen3 is displayed.  For Example:  In the above screen click on Add Flickr Name (5%).    Enter the details and click Save Changes.

4. About Location:  This section gives an introduction about the location.  To edit click  icon.  Screen3 is displayed.   Change the text and click Save Changes.
5. Latest from the Blog:  This section displays the post blurbs from the blog URL given in your profile.  To edit the blog URL please click on    icon, Screen8 is displayed as shown below.

Screen8

6. Testimonials:  This section displays the testimonials / comments left by people visiting the owner’s profile.  Click view all testimonials link to view all the comments (Screen9) left by your visitors.

Screen9

Settings

An Airspot Router can be associated with 3 types of users. The types of users are the Owners, Guests and the Visitors.

1. Who is a Owner? – An owner is a  person who has bought the Airspot router.  This person is registered as an owner of Airspot who can share the bandwidth with the Airspot Community.
2. Who is a Guest? – A guest is a person who can access Internet for free at the Airspot Owner’s location.  Guest account will be created by the Host / Owner.
3. Who is a Visitor? - A visitor is a person who has to register as a Airspot user and who has to buy access plans so as to access Internet at any of the Airspot locations around the country.

The settings menu (Screen9) will help you (registered owner) to add guests, change passwords and check usage stats. When a guest comes to your house with his/her wireless device and wishes to browse Internet using his/her wireless device, then you can create an account for your guest through the Settings > Add Guest option and give him/her the password to access the Internet.

A separate account is created for the guests to make the network secure.

Screen9

Add Guest – Maximum of two guests can be added.

5. From Settings menu, click Add Guest, Screen10 is displayed as shown below.

Screen10

6. To add a guest, enter username and your (airspot owner) mobile number and click on Verify button (Entering mobile number and verifying it is mandatory according to DOT/TRAI rules for security reasons).  Screen11 is displayed.  It may take 1-5 minutes to receive the SMS code.

Screen11

7. Check your mobile for SMS code.  Enter the SMS code that you have received on your mobile in Enter SMS code text box as shown in Screen12 below.

Screen12

8. Click Submit.  Screen13 is displayed with the message “Thank you for verifying your mobile number”.  If you enter the wrong SMS code, then the message “Incorrect SMS code or mobile combination” is displayed.

Screen13

9. Enter your Email id.
10. Enter a password with minimum 6 characters.  You can give this password to the guest for signing in.  In Confirm Password text box, enter the same password that you entered in the Password field for confirmation.  For Example:  If you entered Ramesh2010 in Password field, then enter Ramesh2010 in Confirm Password field.  If you fail to enter the same Password in Confirm Password field, then the message “Password and confirm password must be the same” is displayed.  There is an indicator provided for you to understand the strength of the password entered. If you use alphabets, numbers and special characters, then the strength of the password will be high.
11. Click on Add Guest button.  A success page on creation of a guest account will be displayed (Screen14).  The new guest account is displayed under “My Guests” section.

Screen14

12. To change your guest’s password, click on Change Password link, Screen15 is displayed.  The password is changed when the guest has left your place after using the password to login.  Any other new guest who visits can be given the new changed password.  For Example:  Suppose Guest1 visits your place and uses the password Airspot2010, then after the guest leaves your place, the password can be changed to GuestofAirspot2010 in Screen15 .  This new password GuestofAirspot2010 can be given to any other guest who might be visiting you.

Screen15

13. Enter New Password and Confirm Password.  Click on Submit button.
14. If you wish to change Guest Username, then delete the guest account.  To delete guest account, click on icon in Screen14 a confirmation pop up box is displayed as shown below (Screen16)

Screen16

15. If you really want to delete the guest account click on OK button else click on Cancel button.

Change Password – You can change your (owner) password in this section or you can reset your password from the Sign In screen by clicking on forgot password link.  

16. From Settings menu, click Change Password (Screen17)

Screen17

17. Enter your mobile number and email address and click on Submit button. You will receive a new password as a text message (SMS) on your mobile. Use it to gain access to the dashboard and change the password.

Screen18

18. Enter the password sent to you by SMS in Current Password field.  Enter New Password of a minimum of 6 characters and Confirm Password by re-entering the new password.  Click Submit.  Home page is displayed.

Usage Stats - You can check session history details of guests, visitors and roaming airspot owners in this section.  This information will allow you to assess the traffic from your router.

19. From Settings menu, click Usage Stats Screen19 is displayed as shown below.

Screen19

20. To get details of usage for particular date range click on icon to choose date as shown in Screen20 below.

Screen20

21. Click on Submit button.  Screen21 is displayed as shown below.

Screen21

22. Click on User link, the description for that user is displayed in User Session Detail section.

Find Airspot

23. Click on Find Airspot tab, this will take you to the Airspot website from where you can search for airspot locations as shown in Screen22 below.  This helps you to find the details of Airspots that are nearby so that you can zero in on the nearest one to visit and avail wireless facility.  URL: http://airspot.in/WiFi-in-India

Screen22

• Type the name of the Airspot in the text box and click on Go button.  The search results will be listed under the section Your search results are…

FAQ

24. If you have any queries please click on FAQ tab, this will take you to airspot website page with FAQs as shown in Screen23 below.  URL: http://airspot.in/FAQs

Screen23

• Click on each question, the answer will be displayed as shown in Screen23 above.

Logout

25. To logout of Airspot Owner dashboard click on Logout tab in Screen21.  Home page is displayed (Screen24) as shown below.

Screen24

26. To login again click on Sign In tab.  Screen25 is displayed as shown below.

Screen25

27. Enter your Username and Password and click on Sign In.  

28. If you have forgotten your password click on Forgot Password link.  Screen26 is displayed.

Screen26

29. Enter the mobile number and email id that you have provided during activation of the airspot router and click on Reset Password tab.  You will receive an SMS with your reset password and a message “Your password has been reset and sent to you, via SMS” is displayed (Screen27) as shown below.

Screen27

30. You can change your password when you sign in for the first time (Screen28)

Screen28

Airspot Visitor Access Manual

1. Overview
2. Accessing the Sign In Page
3. Buying an Access Plan
4. Accessing the Internet
5. Logging Out

Overview

A Visitor can access the Internet by utilizing the Internet bandwidth shared by an Airspot Owner. The Visitor's portal shall allow them to register, buy prepaid access plans and also get authenticated by the Airspot servers, to be able to access the Internet.

Note – As of now, Airspot supports payments only via credit cards. We are surely working to support payment using debit cards and netbanking.

Accessing the Sign In Page

1. Make sure that the WiFi adapter of your device is switched on.
2. Search for the WiFi networks around you. If there is an Airspot location available nearby, you should find a SSID called “Airspot-Public”.
3. Connect to the SSID “Airspot-Public”.
4. After successful connection, launch an Internet browser and request for any URL you wish to visit.
5. At this juncture, you shall be automatically redirected to the Visitor Log In page, as shown below -
   
   
   Note for Internet Explorer 8 users – Users of IE 8 shall encounter a security warning popup message like the one below. Click on 'No' to continue.
   
   

Buying an Access Plan

1. After the Visitor access page is loaded, click on the Buy Plan tab.
2. Select a plan from the Choose Plan dropdown box.
3. After you select the plan, the details about the plan should be outlined at the right, as shown in the screenshot below -
   
   
4. Enter your mobile number and email ID. Click on Verify. You should receive a verification code as a SMS, on your mobile.
5. Enter the verification code, and click on Submit.
6. Now, when you click on the Next button, you shall be with a form to provide your credit card details. Check the screenshot below for reference.
   
   
7. Enter your credit card information, and click on the Next button.
8. Kindly read the Terms of Services carefully. If you agree with the terms, then go ahead and click on the Make a Payment button.
9. You should get a 'success page' with the card number and the security PIN. The PIN number shall also be sent to you via SMS, on your registered mobile number.
   Note – Both the card number and the security PIN are the same.
10. Now, you can use the PIN and card numbers to access the Internet on only the Airspot location where you first use the coupon.

Accessing the Internet

1. First, make sure that your web browser allows pop up windows, so that you can log out your Internet access session, later.
   Note – If you do not manage to enable pop up windows for your browser, do not panic. You shall be presented with a “successful log in” page that you shall need to keep open, to be able to logout.
2. Load up the Sign In page. The procedure has been outlined above.
3. Click on the Sign In button at top right. You should get a screen like the one shown at the right.
4. If you are a Visitor, enter the card and PIN numbers. If you are a Guest or an Airspot Owner, then enter your Airspot username and password.
5. Click on Sign In and you are free to browse!

Logging Out

1. If you had disabled your browser's popup blocker before signing in, you should have gotten a pop up window like the one below -
   
   
2. If you had not disabled your browser's popup blocker before signin in, you should have gotten a 'successfull sign in' page with the following logout option -
   
   
3. Click on either of the Logout buttons to close your Airspot session.

Airspot Public Profile User Guide

Overview

In this century, social networking is the way that people have adopted all over the world to communicate with each other. This is because the Internet is filled with millions of individuals who are looking to meet other people, to gather and share first-hand information and experiences about topics and interests as varied and rich as our society and the history of the human being.

Airspot now offers the owners an option of creating a public profile so as to give a platform to them wherein they can exchange business-oriented ideas with other Airspot owners. This social networking can boost their business as well as help maintain contacts with other Airspot owners. Membership for this feature is restricted only to Airspot owners.

Once the owners create their public profile with Airspot they can begin to socialize. This socialization may include reading the profile pages of other members, visiting their hotspots to avail the services offered there and possibly even contacting them. The Airspot owners can post their picture; give information about their interests, flash the latest news, give cool links in their public profile page, so that friends, acquaintances, business partners, customers etc. of the Airspot owners can contact and know more about him/her.

This platform can also be used to advertise, sell products and create space for classifieds, thus broadening the scope of earning extra revenue.

How to create Airspot public profile?

1. Once the Airspot router is activated, the owner’s public profile with default settings is created.  It can be accessed using the URL given in the success page of the router activation as shown in Screen1 below.

Screen1

The following steps describe how your public profile can be edited in Airspot portal –

2. There are two ways of accessing your account:

1. By entering the URL given in Screen1 in any browser, Screen2 is displayed [OR] by clicking on Complete your profile link in Screen1 above Screen2 will be displayed.
2. By typing the following URL in any browser: http://airspot.in/Airspot, Screen2 is displayed.
3. Login page (Screen2) is displayed.

Screen2 – Login Page

2. Enter mobile number and password that you gave while activating your Airspot router and click on Sign In button.  Home page (Screen3) is displayed as shown below.

Screen3 – Home page

• - This indicates whether the Airspot router has been online for the past one hour.

5. Since your profile is generated with default settings you can customize your profile page according to your requirement.  We would advise you to edit the page so that you become a privileged Airspot owner and reap the benefits offered to privileged Airspot owner.
6. Now, if you want to edit your profile please click on Edit Profile tab.  Screen4 is displayed.

Screen4 – Edit Profile

Description of each field is as below:

• Make it public:  Mark this box, if you want others to see your profile
• Name: Enter your name
• About your location:  Enter few lines about your location
• Shout out to your visitor:  Enter a message to people who visit your profile
• Social Networking Information:  Your various social networking pages like twitter, flicker and blogs can be linked to the home page.  Now, if you just share your Airspot profile with others, they can easily read through all the social networking sites that you are maintaining.  The advantage for you is that it is easy to navigate from one networking site to the other from your Airspot profile page to update the contents
• Enter blog URL:  Enter the URL of your blog or any other blog that you would like to share with the world.  Default URL is http://airspot.in/blog
• Enter Twitter Id:  Enter your twitter id or a twitter id that you are following.  Default Twitter Id is airspotwifi
• Flicker Screen Name:  Enter flickr screen name to display images on the home page.  You can find your Flickr screen name from http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/screenname/.    Default flickr screen name is airspot
• Location Name:  Enter a name for your location.  Name your location with a name as unique as possible.  For Example:  If your flat number is 1202 in “A” block of Mani Apartments, then the name for your location can be “Airspot-12thA-ManiApts”
• Landmark:  Enter the landmark for finding your location, this will make it easy for people to find your location
• Address1, Address2, Country, State, City, Pincode:  Enter the address of the location.  Please enter the right address, as it will help the bills to reach you on time
• Billing Address:  If the billing address is different, mark this box and enter the billing address
• Upload | Delete:  Click Delete to delete the photograph and Upload to add new photograph

Important:

It is very important that you fill up all the details in Screen3, because this will help for better communication, billing and for identification of the location.   Depending on the completion of the form, your location will be rated as Gold, Silver or Bronze and according to the rating you can avail many benefits.  

Rating:
Bronze – You will be awarded Bronze, if you have given only your mobile number and email address.  

Silver – You will be awarded Silver, if you have given details about your location and other additional information.  This will help for the revenue share to reach you on time and also the Airspot communities will be able to view your public profile.

Gold – You will be awarded Gold, if you have given your credit card details and have also done one complete online transaction.  The Gold award makes you a privileged Airspot owner and you can avail the facility to buy and sell your product online and Airspot will help you to promote your location

7. After typing all the details, please click on Save Changes button, Screen5 is displayed.

Screen5

8. There are some more additional features that can be added to the public profile page and the features are:  Links, Twitter Updates, Profile Completion, Testimonials and Latest from the blog

1. Links:  In this section you can add links to any website of your interest that you would want your visitors also to visit.  To edit the links, click on   icon, Screen6 is displayed as shown below.

Screen6

• Enter Title of the website, URL of the website and the New Site Name and click on Submit button.  

2. Twitter Updates: To change the twitter ID, click on   icon, Screen7 is displayed as shown below.

Screen7

• Enter the twitter ID in the text box and click on OK button

3. Profile Completion:  If you have skipped entering details in some of the sections in Screen4, then the incomplete sections will be listed under % profile completion section as shown in Screen8 below.  You can add details and complete your profile at any time in the future.

Screen8

• To complete the profile, click on the remaining profile section name link to be filled.  Screen4 is displayed.  For Example:  In the above screen click on Add Flickr Name (5%).    Enter the details and click Save Changes.

4. About Location:  This section gives an introduction about the location.  To edit click icon. Screen4 is displayed. Change the text and click Save Changes.
5. Latest from the Blog:  This section displays the post blurbs from the blog URL given in your profile.  To edit the blog URL please click on icon, Screen9 is displayed as shown below.

Screen9

6. Testimonials: This section displays the testimonials / comments left by people visiting the owner’s profile. Click view all testimonials link to view all the comments (Screen10) left by your visitors.

Screen10