I am consulting with a new player in the internet field and I am looking for suggestions for hotspot wifi software. GPL would be great, but I know some of the stuff out doesn't have all the features. http://www.antamedia.com/ looks pretty solid and has an oem feature, anybody else us this? We will wanting to set up about 10 different hotspots in a small downtown area and we want to give away the service for free. Doesn't everybody expect that already? I'll want to also be able to manage some rotating-commercialized popups/popunders or log in advertisements to offset the costs. As well as some traffic shaping / blocking some common high bandwidth usage sites / or times of the day / for the neighbors who live in the area too. Maybe some one has done this before? If you have any suggestions, please feel free to contact me off list. keith at kouzmanoff dot com thanks!
I am consulting with a new player in the internet field and I am looking for suggestions for hotspot wifi software.
GPL would be great, but I know some of the stuff out doesn't have all the features.
DD-WRT can do this on a variety of hardware. If you use it on higher end gear (meaning not a Linksys wrt54gl) you have to buy a license, but it's pretty cheap. They use Chillispot as the underlying "captive portal". Play with it on a $50 WRT54GL and see if it meets your needs. The developers will also do custom coding and branding if you toss a reasonable fee their way. Regards, Michael Holstein Cleveland State University
so can open-wrt and you can run it on something like: http://www.ubnt.com/products/rspro.php which is a lot more flexible than a consumer ap and the price starts at about $80 before you add radios. Michael Holstein wrote:
I am consulting with a new player in the internet field and I am looking for suggestions for hotspot wifi software.
GPL would be great, but I know some of the stuff out doesn't have all the features.
DD-WRT can do this on a variety of hardware. If you use it on higher end gear (meaning not a Linksys wrt54gl) you have to buy a license, but it's pretty cheap. They use Chillispot as the underlying "captive portal".
Play with it on a $50 WRT54GL and see if it meets your needs.
The developers will also do custom coding and branding if you toss a reasonable fee their way.
Regards,
Michael Holstein Cleveland State University
Check out Mikrotik: http://www.mikrotik.com/ -Mike On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Michael Holstein < michael.holstein@csuohio.edu> wrote:
I am consulting with a new player in the internet field and I am looking for suggestions for hotspot wifi software.
GPL would be great, but I know some of the stuff out doesn't have all the features.
DD-WRT can do this on a variety of hardware. If you use it on higher end gear (meaning not a Linksys wrt54gl) you have to buy a license, but it's pretty cheap. They use Chillispot as the underlying "captive portal".
Play with it on a $50 WRT54GL and see if it meets your needs.
The developers will also do custom coding and branding if you toss a reasonable fee their way.
Regards,
Michael Holstein Cleveland State University
I've been impressed with what I've seen from SolutionInc (http://www.solutioninc.com/). They're the only multi-site product I would feel comfortable pursuing at this time. Most others require managing each site or AP separately, which is not my idea of scalable. Frank -----Original Message----- From: keith kouzmanoff [mailto:keith@kouzmanoff.com] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 1:22 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: wifi hotspot software needed I am consulting with a new player in the internet field and I am looking for suggestions for hotspot wifi software. GPL would be great, but I know some of the stuff out doesn't have all the features. http://www.antamedia.com/ looks pretty solid and has an oem feature, anybody else us this? We will wanting to set up about 10 different hotspots in a small downtown area and we want to give away the service for free. Doesn't everybody expect that already? I'll want to also be able to manage some rotating-commercialized popups/popunders or log in advertisements to offset the costs. As well as some traffic shaping / blocking some common high bandwidth usage sites / or times of the day / for the neighbors who live in the area too. Maybe some one has done this before? If you have any suggestions, please feel free to contact me off list. keith at kouzmanoff dot com thanks!
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