Lets take for example the Basic or Plus plan: If you have a Basic or Plus plan, your revenue share as a network operator is 50%. So if an advertiser signs up to advertise on your network through the 'Advertise Your Business Here' link, you are paid 50% of the monthly revenue from that advertiser.

Silver Lining handles the ad booking, placement, and sends you the revenue share once it reaches at least $100. If your network doesn't have enough traffic yet to support the plan that the advertiser purchased, we prorate their payment and your revenue share is in proportion to that traffic portion.

To turn on, and control the Silver Lining ad bar on your network, you must create an account on the Silver Lining dashboard.

Creating and Managing Ad Bars

Once you have logged in to the Silver Lining dashboard, follow these instructions to create at least one ad bar for your Open-Mesh network:

1. In the left sidebar, click the top button “Ad Center”
2. Click on the ad bar that you would like to edit. The default ad bar is the “Text Entry Message Bar” which you can use to type text messages (including links) directly into the ad bar. 
   
3. To create a new text message in this ad bar, click “Text Entry Message Bar”
4. Enter the text for the message bar.
5. Click 'save text message' and this text message is now saved as your text message ad bar.

In addition to simple text messages, you can create an ad bar that displays the most recent tweet from any Twitter account. 

Click here to learn more about Twitter in your WiFi's ad bar..

In addition to the text message bar, and the Twitter feed, you can place ad invocation code from your ad server into an bar, in order to serve IAB Standard ad banners.   Use your ad server to target, control and track your ad campaigns.  Learn more about using ad zones.

Once you have created at least one ad bar, follow these instructions to assign message bars to routers on your Open-Mesh network:

Managing Routers

1. In the left sidebar, click the second button to “Routers”
2. Click "Synch Open-Mesh Devices"
3. In the list of routers that appears or updates, click on a router to edit
   
4. To edit greyed out fields including SSID and router name, you must login to your Open-Mesh dashboard
5. To add or change OpenX ad zones, text messages, or twitter feeds on your router's ad bar, select the appropriate ad bar
   
6. Click "save settings" to update your router
   

This article is to help explain how to integrate Silver Lining with your Open-Mesh network.  If you have any questions, or require assistance, please do not hesitate to email support@silverliningnetworks.com, or create a help ticket here on our support dashboard.

Note: Your Open-Mesh router must be using the 2.6.23 kernel, more commonly referred to as the 23 kernel.  We recommend ROBIN firmware versions r1522 and r2168.  Your device must also have 32 MB of SDRAM and 8 MB of flash in order to install Silver Lining. We currently support the MR3201A, OM1P, and PicoStation devices.

Instructions for adding Silver Lining to your Open-Mesh dashboard:

1. Log in to your Open-Mesh dashboard
2. Click on the “SSID #1” tab
3. Scroll down to “Captive Portal Options”. You must have “Open” selected here in order to see the Silver Lining option listed further down the page.
4. Scroll down and check the box “Show Ad Bar” to the left of the Silver Lining logo.
5. Click “Update Network Settings” at the top, right. This will install Silver Lining on your Open-Mesh network. Clicking “Update Network Settings” on your Open-Mesh dashboard will automatically restart the routers on your network.

Silver Lining is now installed on your Open-Mesh dashboard.

Click here for instructions on how to use Silver Lining.

Yes. Use OpenX to place your own ads and manage sophisticated ad campaigns with full tracking and targeting.

OpenX is an open-source advertising server trusted by more than 30,000 web publishers in over 100 countries around the world. OpenX is a powerful ad serving solution that puts control over online advertising back in the hands of publishers.

Learn more about using OpenX with Silver Lining