Options for Extending Wireless Guest Access

[RLNG]

Hello everyone,

I’m looking for some advice on managing our wireless network’s guest access. Currently, our setup grants guest access for 24 hours via a built-in captive portal. However, we have a situation where we need to extend access for a group of contractors, ideally up to four months, without having to manually manage MAC addresses through a whitelist, which would be tedious and challenging to maintain.

We are not using Meraki Sentry, and I'm interested in understanding our options for a BYOD setup that would accommodate this need. Is there a way to manually adjust the expiration dates for specific devices or a more streamlined method to extend access for select users without frequent manual updates?

Any suggestions or experiences with similar scenarios would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

[BlakeRichardson]

The easiest option might be a second SSID using a splashpage with Meraki authentication. When you create a user you can set their account not to expire and when the work has finished either delete the users or the SSID.

[RLNG]

What do you mean by "splash page with Meraki authentication."? This is how we are set up currently, everything related to Guest wifi never leaves Meraki. When I check the options I don't see anything that I can do that never expires. The only option I see it to whitelist the user/mac and it becomes forever....not something we want. 

This contract setup is a long-term deal so it's going to be needed for many years. It's hard for us to tell when a user comes and their contract ends etc.  I am looking for a more seamless option. 

[PhilipDAth]

Are you using Meraki Authentication for the guest portal?  You can enable that here:

Then just edit the account expiry in Network Wide/Users:

[RLNG]

Thank you

[RLNG]

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