Guest WiFi
Insights, guides, and news from Purple about guest wifi.
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Streaming Under the Stars: Why iPSK is the Future of WiFi for Caravan Parks & Resorts
Why iPSK is the gold standard for caravan park and holiday resort WiFi. Learn how to provide "home-like" connectivity, eliminate support calls, and manage seasonal demand.
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Beyond eduroam: Why iPSK is the New Standard for Student Accommodation & Higher Education WiFi
Learn how student accommodation and PBSA operators use iPSK to isolate personal devices, support gaming consoles, and automate move-in onboarding.
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Why iPSK is the Gold Standard for Build-to-Rent (BTR) and MDU WiFi
Why iPSK is the gold standard for Build-to-Rent (BTR) WiFi. Learn how to provide "Instant-On" internet, improve resident retention, and reduce hardware costs with identity-based networking.
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What is iPSK? Identity Pre-Shared Key guide for enterprise WiFi
Discover how Identity Pre-Shared Key (iPSK) delivers individual VLAN security with simple passwords. Master DPSK and MPSK for IoT, student housing, and MDUs.
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Why iPSK is the Future of Care Home WiFi: Balancing Resident Privacy with Medical Security
Learn how iPSK (Identity PSK) provides secure, home-like WiFi for care homes. Balance resident privacy with secure e-MAR and IoT connectivity.
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Why iPSK is the key to digital inclusion in social housing
Explore how Identity PSK (iPSK) delivers secure, affordable home WiFi in social housing while enabling smart building telemetry and private device networking.
A Guide to WiFi for Vehicles and Connected Fleets
A technical guide to vehicle WiFi, dual 5G gateways, satellite failover, captive portal analytics, and QoS bandwidth control for connected fleets.
Beyond the Walled Garden Login Rethinking Guest WiFi Access
Understand how walled garden logins manage guest WiFi access, key security and friction risks, and how passwordless OpenRoaming streamlines connection.
Smarter connections: your guide to business WiFi solutions
Discover modern business WiFi solutions that boost security, enhance user experience, and drive growth. Go beyond passwords for a smarter, safer network.
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The hidden cost of free WiFi: what your captive portal is really costing you
Discover the hidden costs of legacy captive portals, including staff helpdesk burden, lost CRM data, and compliance risks, and calculate your true guest WiFi ROI.
Digital Inclusion Starts at Your Front Door: How Venue WiFi Can Bridge the Gap
In 2025, the digital divide is a crisis of digital equity, fundamentally restricting access to life's essentials. The fight to establish connectivity as a right, not a privilege, is often framed in terms of high-level national strategy and multi-billion-pound infrastructure projects. But for millions who lack consistent access, the solution isn't miles of fibre optic cable; it's the welcoming sign of a local library, a bustling café, or a community centre with free, reliable and secure WiFi.
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Newcastle digital revolution: secure public WiFi drives inclusion and economic growth
Learn how Newcastle City Council and Purple built a secure smart city WiFi network, tackling digital exclusion, 5G indoor gaps, and driving urban footfall.
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The death of the captive portal: why Apple, Google, and Samsung are phasing out legacy guest WiFi
Learn why Apple, Google, and Samsung are phasing out legacy captive portals. Explore Passpoint, RFC 8908 APIs, and friction-free guest WiFi authentication.
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Purple’s free initiative to accelerate OpenRoaming™ adoption for businesses
New approach eliminates barriers, empowering venues to join the global OpenRoaming™ network and deliver seamless, secure WiFi.
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Mythbusters: beyond the captive portal to seamless WiFi | Purple
Explore why 5G indoor attenuation, certificate-based 802.1X security, and choice-based opt-in models make seamless Passpoint WiFi superior to legacy captive portals.
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Guest WiFi strategy: captive portals vs OpenRoaming guide
Explore the modern Guest WiFi strategy guide. Compare captive portal first-party data capture with seamless Passpoint and OpenRoaming enterprise connectivity.
The end of the captive portal: Passpoint & guest WiFi future
Explore why legacy captive portals are giving way to Passpoint, OpenRoaming, and app-based onboarding for seamless, encrypted guest and enterprise WiFi.
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Seamless, Secure, and Everywhere: The end of WiFi friction
Discover how to eliminate guest WiFi friction, bypass outdated captive portals, and deliver seamless, encrypted venue connectivity for enterprise users.
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