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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.
You can use XE and Google Mobile to check the current exchange rate between US Dollars and your local currency.
If you are using our Ad Marketplace to sell advertisements on your network, you get paid in US Dollars (USD). You will receive a check or a PayPal payment when your account balance reaches $100. Email for details.
Our tests show that the adbar works on 99.9% of all websites. The ad bar does not show up on secure (https) websites because of the encryption provided by the https connection.
See our signup page for the revenue share from our Ad Marketplace.
No problem. If you don’t have ads, Silver Lining provides a set of merchant tools which you can use to sell advertising to local businesses. We have significant experience in this area, contact us at for details.
That all depends on your plan, check out our pricing page to view the details of each plan.
Yes. Use OpenX to place your own ads and manage sophisticated ad campaigns with full tracking and targeting.
Silver Lining gives you full control of the ad bar space. Silver Lining integrates seamlessly with the popular OpenX ad server (www.openx.org).
The Linksys WRT54GL router is no longer supported for new customers. We recommend that you use one of the mesh enabled devices that we currently support. We love the WRT54GL, but these units have significant cost and feature advantages over the WRT54GL.
If you bought a router from Silver Lining, no need to worry about updates. Our routers auto-update. If you installed our firmware on your own router, the firmware will auto-update as new versions are released.
If your router is capable of running the OpenWRT firmware, and has at least 3 MB of free memory, you can use our OpenWRT ipkg modules to install Silver Lining on your device. If you have never flashed a router with firmware, we recommend that you purchase a pre-configured device from our online store.
Our supported devices are listed below, and may be flashed with ROBIN Open Mesh firmware. If you wish to install Silver Lining on one of these devices, please email and we will provide you with a link to our firmware additions.
Accton MR3201A
Open-Mesh OM1P
Ubiquiti PicoStation2
Our WRT54GL firmware is no longer supported for new customers. The devices listed above are recommended instead of the WRT54GL.
While this event is uncommon, power cycling a router solves most problems. To power cycle the router, simply unplug it, wait 30 seconds, plug it back it, and wait for 30 seconds. If after power cycling the router twice you are still experiencing problems, visit our Troubleshooting Forum for more help. If you can’t solve your problem after perusing the forum, ().
Sign up for a Silver Lining account on our website, then login to your dashboard and register your Silver Lining router. The dashboard is where you control all of your routers and manage the ads on each router.
At this time, Silver Lining does not support Google AdSense. Stay tuned…
Google AdSense is a program where Google pays website owners (publishers) to place ads on their site. The difference with Silver Lining is that network owners are paid for ads on their entire network, not just one website. Like Google AdSense, Silver Lining targets individual ads based on the content of individual Web pages.
Unlike Google AdSense, Silver Lining can place ads on virtually every website on any Silver Lining Network. With Silver Lining, the network is the publisher, and network owners are paid for ad impressions on their network.
Silver Lining is a small company with offices in San Francisco, CA and Portland, OR.
Our goal is to expand the possibilities for online advertising by making physical networks into publishers of online content within their networks. We are committed to providing a simple to use and dependable service that makes this possible.
Silver Lining lets you make money from a WiFi network you control. You control the network, you control the ads.
Silver Lining is a service that makes it possible to place advertisements (ads) on WiFi networks. Simply plug a Silver Lining router into any WiFi network and register that router to your Silver Lining Account on the web. You are now ready to buy and/or sell advertisements targeted to individual routers in your network.
Ads are displayed in the Silver Lining Ad Bar, which shows up across the top of web pages visited while connected to your network. You control the network, you control the ads.
Visit the website support page for contact information. Veuillez consulter la page Help pour de l’aide en Français.
Use these Frequently Asked Questions to find answers to basic questions about Silver Lining, such as:
- What and who is Silver Lining the company
- How to use Silver Lining’s products and services
- How payment works
- How to get support
The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) in this forum are sticky and open for comment. This means that they will always appear near the top of the list of topics in the FAQs, and you can post questions to them. However, if you have a support request and you post here, please also be sure to send an email to .
If you have a question about the information contained in one of the FAQs, please post a new topic to get a response from Silver Lining and the community. Feel free to post questions about any of these FAQs, or to ask new questions, and we will help you!
Do you manage a visitor based network and wish to generate additional revenue? The easiest way to receive guaranteed income is through Silver Lining’s plug and play ad serving network. Silver Lining and its advertising network pay you a portion of the ad revenue in relation to the amount of impressions generated on your network. The more users and impressions on your network the more revenue. This CPM advertising is the easiest and highest paid form of ad revenue.
If you operate a network with Internet access, you can benefit from using Silver Lining. Silver Lining is simple to use and provides a radical new way to generate revenue and add value to your existing network. All you need to do is get Silver Lining into your network.
If you operate one or more WiFi hot spots, Silver Lining is a radical new way to generate more revenue and add value to your existing business by placing advertising on your network.