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744751 2009-02-05 00:50:00 tomato (www.polarcloud.com) plod (107)
744752 2009-02-05 01:55:00 Tomato does a captive portal?

If thats the case, dont go DD-WRT, go Tomato :D

...or still check pfSense ;)
Chilling_Silence (9)
744753 2009-02-05 03:48:00 Tomato FTW!!!

Never knew it supported capt portal...

Might have to check the documentation 2nite;)

Blam
Blam (54)
744754 2009-02-05 05:01:00 Tomato does a captive portal?

If thats the case, dont go DD-WRT, go Tomato :D

...or still check pfSense ;)


I wouldn't have a clue what captive portal means. Just heard about tomato on a podcast
plod (107)
744755 2009-02-05 08:51:00 Ah ... well it works well with the WL-520GU's, been running it myself after DD-WRT wouldnt let my Wii connect, nor could I play Age of Conquerors with LAN / Wireless combination (All wireless or all LAN was fine thou). Chilling_Silence (9)
744756 2009-02-06 01:35:00 Since the traffic exchange will occur over unsecured connections, does this open the opportunity for unauthorised data interception?

Cheers :)
Renmoo (66)
744757 2009-02-06 01:55:00 Since the traffic exchange will occur over unsecured connections, does this open the opportunity for unauthorised data interception?

Cheers :)

You could do it via https
somebody (208)
744758 2009-02-06 03:02:00 How do motels or backpackers or who-ever that offer wireless access to people with laptops for a fee do it?

Obviously you have the router passworded but you then have to tell them it, and whats to stop them leavibng then connecting to it after they get down the road?

And how do you work out what usage they have used to bill them?

The motor camp I live in has a system provided by The Internet Access Company (http://www.internetaccesscompany.co.nz/) Anyone with a wireless laptop or a wireless enabled desktop PC can connect to it. But you can't access any but a few web pages. If you try to go anywhere else a logon web page pops up (what Wainuitech and Chilling Silence described is pretty close to it). I just joined up a couple of day's ago and it's pretty cool surfing at broadband speed from a caravan! :D $40 a month for 2Gb isn't too bad either (I was using a Vodafone vodem at $50 a month for 1Gb GPRS dial-up speed before this).
Rod J (451)
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