Subscribing Sputnik-Powered Devices to your SputnikNet Account with Sputnik Instant Setup

What is Sputnik Instant Setup?

Sputnik Instant Setup is a web site that enables you to assign a Sputnik-Powered device to a specific SputnikNet Account. Once you've done this, you can use your SputnikNet Account to manage the device from anywhere over the web.

Subscribe your Sputnik-Powered device to your SputnikNet Account.

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Connect to your Sputnik-powered device and attempt to browse to any page (other than the administrative control panel).

You will be redirected to Sputnik Instant Setup (SIS).

Carefully enter your Sputnik Account ID, as follows:

- a SputnikNet Account found at https://scc01.wifi.sputnik.com/mywifi would be: mywifi@scc01.wifi.sputnik.com
- a SputnikNet On Site Account found at https://name.yourdomain.com/mywifi would be mywifi@name.yourdomain.com

IMPORTANT: double-check to be sure your Account ID is typed correctly. Then click "Assign".

Confirm that Sputnik Instant Setup settings took effect.

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Wait a few minutes to be sure that your Sputnik-Powered device has successfully registered with your SputnikNet Account. If you are not redirected to your SputnikNet administrative account, reboot the Sputnik-powered device and reconnect to it.

WARNING: a typo here can screw things up.

A common error people first trying out Sputnik make is to enter an email address or some other bogus SputnikNet ID. For example, if you mistype "wif.sputnik.com" instead of "wifi.sputnik.com" your Sputnik-powered device will attempt to find the non-existent SputnikNet site.

Unfortunately, the Sputnik Instant Setup server doesn't know whether the ID is valid or not, and the invalid entry sticks in our database. This renders your Sputnik-Powered device useless until we reset it to a valid SputnikNet ID.

To recover from this error see "Changing or Correcting your Device's SputnikNet Subscription".

Check to see that your Sputnik-powered device connects to your SputnikNet Account.

Log in to your SputnikNet Account and look for the Sputnik-powered device to show up on the Router List.

NOTE: If you're using SputnikNet Express, you'll be redirected to the SputnikNet Express configuration pages automatically. See "Creating a new SputnikNet Express Account" for more information.

Troubleshooting: check to be sure the Sputnik Agent is running.

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If you don't get the Sputnik Instant Setup page, log into the local web interface on the Sputnik-Powered device. If running DD-WRT, login at http://192.168.180.1 with username root, password admin. For Sputnik-Powered NexAira firmware, go to http://192.168.123.254; default password is admin.

Select "Status/Sputnik Agent".

"State" should show "Running normally - Managed". If it shows a different message, refer to the "Troubleshooting" section.