Adding Support for Your Wi-Fi Network

Easy Wi-Fi has the unique capability to automate network authentication without any special integration effort on the part of the service provider.  Our Easy Wi-Fi clients can operate with standards-based (although rarely compliant) WISPr authentication as well as arbitrarily implemented UAM methods.  We support thousands of different networks today, many of which have been added through the much appreciated help of our enthusiastic user base. 

Your Wi-Fi network may already be supported.  You can check for yourself by creating an Easy Wi-Fi account and using the "Add A Network" button in the My WiFi Networks page on easywifi.com.

Come One Come All

Devicescape's mission is to support any and all Wi-Fi networks.  Unlike cellular, Wi-Fi is highly fragmented and mostly small scale.  The access needs of each user are varied and quite personal: while there are lots of big networks with thousands of locations it can be important to each individual to get access at the places he or she goes.  Easy Wi-Fi aims to accommodate this need by making it extremely simple for networks to be added to our registry.

Devicescape's network list is growing every day. New networks from around the world are being added all the time; everything from campus networks to small coffee shops; independent hotspot network operators to aggregators.

Most of the time we can get these networks added and working quickly once the required information is sent to us, but every once in a while we come across a network that is either harder to get working, or very rarely impossible. This page will help you help us add your Wi-Fi network. 

Why Be Part Of Devicescape's Network?

Increasingly, people are getting online with devices other than their laptops. When they're picking up coffee in the morning, or hanging out in a bar or restaurant after work they may not want to get their laptop out, assuming they even have it with them (who takes a laptop to a bar?). Their smart phone or iPod touch is right there in their pocket or bag, but getting it connected to the internet is another matter.

The web portal is OK on a laptop, but try it on a handset and it is much more frustrating. Enter Easy Wi-Fi - a one tap solution to getting connected for networks we know about. Your customers can get online and enjoy the Wi-Fi service your providing painlessly, and that means they'll come back again (especially those iPod touch users who need Wi-Fi to get online).

What About My Venue Information Page?

While Easy Wi-Fi automates the connection process, it also bypasses your landing page and that can be important if you rely on this to provide content to your customers, or display ads as a component of your business model Devicescape is working on alternate solutions to this content/communications challenge, so please get in touch so we can discuss your requirements in this area.

How Much Does It Cost?

Nothing. Being added to Devicescape's network registry is free. All it takes is a little time to send us the information we need, and to test it once we've set you up.

How Can You Get Your Network Added?

You can submit the information about your network through our web form on our easywifi.com site. But if you have a lot of locations, or support inbound and/or outbound roaming, get in touch directly.

The basic information we need is the SSID (or SSIDs if you have more than one), a list of locations and how to log in on your network. The how to log in can be one of two things:

  • If your network supports the WISPr protocol, then all we need to know is the suffix and/or prefix information for each of the credential types your network accepts;
  • If your network uses only web form log in pages, then send us the HTML from each of the pages that the user sees, and tell us the path they follow through them (i.e. what links or buttons they need to click on).

If your credentials roam onto other networks too, then let us know that list and we make sure we add those as well so your users can get online anywhere their account lets them.

It's that simple.

What Should I Avoid When Setting Up a Network?

Easy Wi-Fi has been proven adaptable at thousands of different networks, but every now and again we have a challenge. There are a few things that will make it impossible for Devicescape to support your new network:

  • Having more than a user name and password to be entered;
  • Having a captcha string that needs to be entered when the user logs in (and, yes, we have seen a network do this - as if getting connected wasn't hard enough already);
  • Using JavaScript in the pages to either add elements to the form, or to modify the user's input somehow;

In general, if you can support WISPr (and most of the commonly used hotspot access points and controllers out there can do this), then do so. It makes it much faster to add support, much faster for your users to log in and also makes it easier to join an aggregator network, like Boingo or iPass, in the future if you want to.

Can I Get A Custom Client?

Yes, look at our custom and locked client page.

Next Steps and Help

Check whether your network is already supported and if necessary send us the information to add your network by following the steps above. If you have questions or need help please contact us here or email dsbizdev@devicescape.com.

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