Public wifi question

[Babybots]

Hello,

Hopefully somebody can help me with this.......

A friend of mine has a public wifi hotspot in their establishment and would like a page to come up when people connect to it for them to put the wireless key in, a bit like when you connect to btopenzone or similar!!

Is this possible to do on a standard netgear router ??

If so how??

TIA

Steve

 

[bentley1988]

Id be interested in this answer also... cheers.

 

[leemason]

You could have a look at something like this: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdhotspot. It is Open Source wireless hotspot software which is on a Live Bootable Linux CD so you can run it on any old PC hardware.

 

[british steve]

If you run your own un-secured public wifi hotspot you risk breaking the law. find a wifi management company to do it for you. Prices start from £14 per month and remove that risk. If you have an open hotspot and one of your customers downloads anything naughty YOU as the hotspot owner could be liable to a big fine and if you are really, really unlucky you could even get some man love in prison. One pub was fined £8,000 thanks to one of his/hers customers.

If you want to know more them PM me

 

[Dean Dunn]

You dont have to purchase a commercial service, if you know what you're doing you could install pfSense with Captive Portal which will provide what you require.

If you are non technical, then I agree a paid commercial service is the way to go.

pfSense is an Open Source firewall and is free of charge and is highly recommended.

See here (scroll down to Captive Portal for features):-

http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid

 

[leemason]

You dont have to purchase a commercial service, if you know what you're doing you could install pfSense with Captive Portal which will provide what you require.

If you are non technical, then I agree a paid commercial service is the way to go.

pfSense is an Open Source firewall and is free of charge and is highly recommended.

See here (scroll down to Captive Portal for features):-

http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid

That looks like a fantastic project. Loads of features.

 

[AdrianW]

An alternative type of Router such as ZyXEL ZyAIR G-4100 v2 has user authentication built in. Some of the lower spec ZyXEL may have UA as well. I dont think they're too difficult to set up - you can download the user manual.
Adrian
rawsys.com

 

[James.Hodge]

PublicIP is another Linux-based WiFi Hotspot solution that I support and Maintain

 

[3 MORE YEARS]

yeah youd just set up a pc in front of the router to intercept traffic

no password no getting through
also haveit monitor whats going on

i advise blocking applications at the firewall like bittorrent so save your bandwidth

 

[Hngkng]

PublicIP is another Linux-based WiFi Hotspot solution that I support and Maintain

 

[Babybots]

Thanks everyone, will look at some of the options here.

I am not that technical but will see what I/They can do!!

Steve

 

[googol]

If you're worried about somebody misusing the internet connection you could look at getting a fonera router which will create a free public wifi connection point and a private secure wifi connection point for you to use.
Users who have their own fonera router (or a BT Homehub/Businesshub which shares the fon signal) can use the internet for free, and those who don't can pay to use it. Other countries have a revenue share for those who pay, but that doesn't seem to be available in the UK.
All traffic through the public connection is securely routed through fon, so any come back would be on them.