| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 97093 | 2009-02-04 02:56:00 | Selling Network Access | pctek (84) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 744741 | 2009-02-04 02:56:00 | 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? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 744742 | 2009-02-04 03:04:00 | A lot use this system and sell the guest a coupon with a code on it. http://www.voila.org.nz/ It is only usable for the length of time the coupon is valid for and after that they are unable to connect to the wireless network. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 744743 | 2009-02-04 03:07:00 | A few places I have seen , give you a temp user name and password to log in with, and you pay by the time they allocate, either 1/4 hour, Hour what ever, then after that time expires so does the password - not to sure what generates a password - but it would have to be something simple. Love this on that site ATTENTION: OVERSEAS TRAVELLERS ! Internet in NZ is not as flash as in Europe or USA :lol: :lol: :lol: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 744744 | 2009-02-04 03:26:00 | When I was in the USA in 2006, almost everywhere I went, hotels, airports, (except LAX) Starbucks and other places, all had free Wi fi access. Come back to NZ, Telecom charges $10 per hour, or you can buy coupons. I think the password for access is somehow linked to the method of payment. Cheers LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 744745 | 2009-02-04 03:34:00 | www.tomizone.co.nz www.zenbu.net.nz With those two the wireless network is not encrypted so no password required. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 744746 | 2009-02-04 04:01:00 | Wireless routers such as the G-Series here (www.zyxel.co.uk) We looked at one for a cafe a while back and I think they were rather pricey. Many cafe's do it for free now, probably because you can just set up a SoHo router pretty cheaply. Dubious as to how well they're locked down though!! :p |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 744747 | 2009-02-04 10:10:00 | If you get yourself the likes of the Asus WL-520GU for uber-cheap, then you can install certain firmwares on it, such as DD-WRT. I know that the -voip firmware has some captive portal stuff on it Basically, you leave it open and unsecured, but all traffic requires authentication on the captive portal first. That, or the second option is have a machine running something like pfSense, AFAIK it does some semi-decen captive portal stuff too :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 744748 | 2009-02-04 19:35:00 | x2 for pfSense, it's damn good :D. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 744749 | 2009-02-04 20:00:00 | If you get yourself the likes of the Asus WL-520GU for uber-cheap, then you can install certain firmwares on it, such as DD-WRT. Basically, you leave it open and unsecured, but all traffic requires authentication on the captive portal first. How does that work exactly? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 744750 | 2009-02-04 21:41:00 | Basically the wireless is open and unsecured, anybody can connect. However, no Internet traffic will go through to that IP until they've authenticated on the captive portal. That works by them opening a browser, and going to any website they like, it'll auto-redirect them to a Login page that wont let them proceed until they've authenticated :) Once they have, then they can do whatever, or you can lock it down to a certain degree .. Definitely worth looking into pfSense! Especially if you run a Cyber Cafe, it could be quite profitable to allow people to come in, pay a couple of bucks, and use their own laptop / whatever for an hour :) Means you dont have the initial investment of PCs, as well as their ongoing upkeep etc... ;) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1 2 | |||||