Family-safe, faster guest WiFi with protective DNS for pubs, hotels and venues
A guest on your WiFi pulls up adult content at a table next to a family, and it is your venue on the receipt, not theirs. Guests expect WiFi that is safe for their children and fast enough to use. Shield stops it at the lookup: a family-safe policy on the guest network, ads stripped for up to 500% faster pages, staff on their own rules, paid tiers on theirs, and stricter after dark, set once per venue across every site. Whitbread protects its hotel guest WiFi with Shield.
- OpenStrict, family-safeGuest WiFi through a captive portalOpen network tiersFree WiFiAd blocking on, streaming limited at busy timesPaid WiFiIts own rules, separate from the free tier
- SecureThreat defence firstPasspoint and OpenRoaming, staff on EAP-TLS with MDM
- xPSKSafeguarding per groupThings, communities and concessions
Schedule, per venue
What is at stake
Guest WiFi is your name on the network
Families on the guest network
Harmful content reached on your WiFi is reached in your venue.Slow pages at busy times
Ads, trackers and streaming fight for the same bandwidth.Unmanaged devices
Every guest device is one you have never seen, and it shares the network with every other guest.
How Shield fits
One policy for guests, another for staff
- Guest WiFiFamily-safe categories, Safe Search and ad blocking, with your branded block page.
- Staff WiFiThreat defence first, with its own allow and block lists.
- Paid tiersSeparate rules from the free network, and streaming limited at busy times.
- By time of dayStricter in family hours, set once per venue.
See everything Shield stopsGuest WiFi for hospitality on Purple Access
Guest WiFi policy
- Adult contentBlocked
- GamblingBlocked
- Safe Search on Google, Bing and YouTubeEnforced
- Streaming at busy timesLimited
Allow list
bookings.examplemenu.exampleBlock list
rival-venue.exampleProof
Family-safe at Whitbread. Faster pages, fewer complaints.
- 500%
- faster page loads
- 44%
- less data used
- Whitbreadprotects its hotel guest WiFi with Shield
- Friendly WiFistandard met for family-safe filtering
FAQ
Questions we hear from teams like yours
Can we run a stricter policy in family areas?
Yes. Each SSID and VLAN carries its own policy, and policies can change by time of day and day of week, per venue.
Will filtering slow the guest WiFi down?
No. It speeds it up. Ad blocking makes pages load up to 500% faster, with up to 44% less data.
What happens to a busy Saturday service if Shield has a problem?
Protection does not lapse. Shield runs across multiple data centres, so a fault in one does not take your guest WiFi down, and it fails closed, so an outage never leaves the network unfiltered. You never trade safety for uptime, and the platform behind it runs at a 99.999% uptime SLA.
Does it work on our existing WiFi at every site, without a visit?
Yes. Shield runs standalone on any WiFi network. It is a DNS change, with no appliance to rack and nothing installed on devices, so there is nothing to send an engineer to site for.
Other industries
Education and student accommodation
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Safeguarding per network and per VLAN for schools, campuses and student accommodation.Healthcare
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Threat defence on patient and visitor WiFi, proven at St George's Healthcare NHS Trust.Public sector
Public WiFi that is safe for everyone who walks in
Family-safe WiFi for councils, libraries, airports and public spaces, with threat defence per site and per network.
Decide what your WiFi reaches, free for 30 days
Tell us which networks you run and who is on them. We map a policy to each one: guests, staff, students, residents and paid tiers. Then point one network at Shield and see what it stops for 30 days, before you pay anything. Running change control? We plan a pilot on one SSID with your team instead. No hardware, no agents on devices.
- We map your networksA Purple expert maps your networks, your venues and the people on each, and answers your questions on bypass, outages, data handling and integrations.
- You get a policy for each oneGuests, staff, students, residents and paid tiers, each with the policy it needs.
- You prove it, then get your tailored quote30 days free on one network, or a pilot on one SSID planned with your team, then Shield priced standalone or as an add-on to your Access plan.
Your policy map
Tell us your networks. We map a policy to each one.
A Purple expert comes back with a policy for every SSID you run, from the team that has run content filtering on WiFi since 2012 and runs WiFi for 80,000+ venues in 90 countries.