I am looking to try and sell a better way of managing the wi-fi where I live (in a marina) to the marina manager,
Currently he has a standard wi-fi hotspot sat just on the inside of his office wall.
I have been looking at http://www.antamedia.com/hotspot/ however it is prohibitively expensive (an most of the interesting feathers are in the "enterprise" package)
Ideally the software solution would have the following specification
Ability to block everything on this list: https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/ Ability to traffic shape (ie throttle/drop torrents)
Transparent Proxy and Caching port 80.
most of the features from the hotspot software
payment via paypal
I would like to be able to run the membership database off site, so multiple sites can be linked together, allowing for roaming between sites.
Does any one have any thoughts, or ideas relating to this?
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.” — Hermann Goering (Hitler's Reichsmarschall)
> I am looking to try and sell a better way of managing the wi-fi where I
> live (in a marina) to the marina manager,
> Currently he has a standard wi-fi hotspot sat just on the inside of his
> office wall.
> I have been looking at http://www.antamedia.com/hotspot/ however it is
> prohibitively expensive (an most of the interesting feathers are in the
> "enterprise" package)
> Ideally the software solution would have the following specification
> Ability to block everything on this list:
> https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/ > Ability to traffic shape (ie throttle/drop torrents)
> Transparent Proxy and Caching port 80.
> most of the features from the hotspot software
> payment via paypal
> I would like to be able to run the membership database off site, so
> multiple sites can be linked together, allowing for roaming between sites.
> Does any one have any thoughts, or ideas relating to this?
> “Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the
> leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being
> attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing
> the country to danger. It works the same in every country.” — Hermann
> Goering (Hitler's Reichsmarschall)
> For the proxy/cache you could either go down the router with an USB port and USB HDD or augment with a small hackable NAS running Squid.
> This is likely (with a bit of tweaking) to meet most of your requirements and should consume less power too.
> Happy hacking!
> Elliot
> On 6 November 2012 11:27, Philip McGaw <Phi...@mcgaw.eu> wrote:
> I am looking to try and sell a better way of managing the wi-fi where I live (in a marina) to the marina manager,
> Currently he has a standard wi-fi hotspot sat just on the inside of his office wall.
> I have been looking at http://www.antamedia.com/hotspot/ however it is prohibitively expensive (an most of the interesting feathers are in the "enterprise" package)
> Ideally the software solution would have the following specification
> Ability to block everything on this list: https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/ > Ability to traffic shape (ie throttle/drop torrents)
> Transparent Proxy and Caching port 80.
> most of the features from the hotspot software
> payment via paypal
> I would like to be able to run the membership database off site, so multiple sites can be linked together, allowing for roaming between sites.
> Does any one have any thoughts, or ideas relating to this?
> “Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.” — Hermann Goering (Hitler's Reichsmarschall)
Have a look at pfsense[1] it has a nice GUI interface that the marina
manager should be able to use.
It includes a pre-built Capture Portal added as well as allot more.
> For the proxy/cache you could either go down the router with an USB port
> and USB HDD or augment with a small hackable NAS running Squid.
> This is likely (with a bit of tweaking) to meet most of your requirements
> and should consume less power too.
> Happy hacking!
> Elliot
> On 6 November 2012 11:27, Philip McGaw <Phi...@mcgaw.eu> wrote:
>> I am looking to try and sell a better way of managing the wi-fi where I
>> live (in a marina) to the marina manager,
>> Currently he has a standard wi-fi hotspot sat just on the inside of his
>> office wall.
>> I have been looking at http://www.antamedia.com/hotspot/ however it is
>> prohibitively expensive (an most of the interesting feathers are in the
>> "enterprise" package)
>> Ideally the software solution would have the following specification
>> Ability to block everything on this list:
>> https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/ >> Ability to traffic shape (ie throttle/drop torrents)
>> Transparent Proxy and Caching port 80.
>> most of the features from the hotspot software
>> payment via paypal
>> I would like to be able to run the membership database off site, so
>> multiple sites can be linked together, allowing for roaming between sites.
>> Does any one have any thoughts, or ideas relating to this?
>> "Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding
>> of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they
>> are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
>> and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
>> -- Hermann Goering (Hitler's Reichsmarschall)
> Have a look at pfsense[1] it has a nice GUI interface that the marina
> manager should be able to use.
> It includes a pre-built Capture Portal added as well as allot more.
>> For the proxy/cache you could either go down the router with an USB port
>> and USB HDD or augment with a small hackable NAS running Squid.
>> This is likely (with a bit of tweaking) to meet most of your requirements
>> and should consume less power too.
>> Happy hacking!
>> Elliot
>> On 6 November 2012 11:27, Philip McGaw <Phi...@mcgaw.eu> wrote:
>>> I am looking to try and sell a better way of managing the wi-fi where I
>>> live (in a marina) to the marina manager,
>>> Currently he has a standard wi-fi hotspot sat just on the inside of his
>>> office wall.
>>> I have been looking at http://www.antamedia.com/hotspot/ however it is
>>> prohibitively expensive (an most of the interesting feathers are in the
>>> "enterprise" package)
>>> Ideally the software solution would have the following specification
>>> Ability to block everything on this list:
>>> https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/ >>> Ability to traffic shape (ie throttle/drop torrents)
>>> Transparent Proxy and Caching port 80.
>>> most of the features from the hotspot software
>>> payment via paypal
>>> I would like to be able to run the membership database off site, so
>>> multiple sites can be linked together, allowing for roaming between sites.
>>> Does any one have any thoughts, or ideas relating to this?
>>> "Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding
>>> of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they
>>> are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
>>> and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
>>> -- Hermann Goering (Hitler's Reichsmarschall)
You want to implement adblocking as part of a commercial hotspot? Isn't
that a bit unethical? And a violation of your presumed common carrier
obligations?
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Philip McGaw <Phi...@mcgaw.eu> wrote:
> I am looking to try and sell a better way of managing the wi-fi where I
> live (in a marina) to the marina manager,
> Currently he has a standard wi-fi hotspot sat just on the inside of his
> office wall.
> I have been looking at http://www.antamedia.com/hotspot/ however it is
> prohibitively expensive (an most of the interesting feathers are in the
> "enterprise" package)
> Ideally the software solution would have the following specification
> Ability to block everything on this list:
> https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/ > Ability to traffic shape (ie throttle/drop torrents)
> Transparent Proxy and Caching port 80.
> most of the features from the hotspot software
> payment via paypal
> I would like to be able to run the membership database off site, so
> multiple sites can be linked together, allowing for roaming between sites.
> Does any one have any thoughts, or ideas relating to this?
> “Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the
> leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being
> attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing
> the country to danger. It works the same in every country.” — Hermann
> Goering (Hitler's Reichsmarschall)
As for the multi-site with central management, I assume that you could
install it on a public facing server to do all the user administration and
authentication and on each site's setup you enter the public IP address of
the main server to do the radius authentication.
Cheap and cheerful(?)
Regards,
Yiannis
On 6 November 2012 11:27, Philip McGaw <Phi...@mcgaw.eu> wrote:
> I am looking to try and sell a better way of managing the wi-fi where I
> live (in a marina) to the marina manager,
> Currently he has a standard wi-fi hotspot sat just on the inside of his
> office wall.
> I have been looking at http://www.antamedia.com/hotspot/ however it is
> prohibitively expensive (an most of the interesting feathers are in the
> "enterprise" package)
> Ideally the software solution would have the following specification
> Ability to block everything on this list:
> https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/ > Ability to traffic shape (ie throttle/drop torrents)
> Transparent Proxy and Caching port 80.
> most of the features from the hotspot software
> payment via paypal
> I would like to be able to run the membership database off site, so
> multiple sites can be linked together, allowing for roaming between sites.
> Does any one have any thoughts, or ideas relating to this?
> “Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the
> leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being
> attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing
> the country to danger. It works the same in every country.” — Hermann
> Goering (Hitler's Reichsmarschall)
On Tue, 6 Nov 2012, Philip McGaw wrote:
> I am looking to try and sell a better way of managing the wi-fi where I live (in a marina) to the marina manager,
> Currently he has a standard wi-fi hotspot sat just on the inside of his office wall.
> I have been looking at http://www.antamedia.com/hotspot/ however it is prohibitively expensive (an most of the interesting feathers are
> in the "enterprise" package)
> Ideally the software solution would have the following specification
> Ability to block everything on this list: https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/
As someone else mentioned don't fiddle around with the internet like this, i know your trying to be "helpful" but if it becomes common place to much about with the web like this you make it more likely that people will start to have "bright" ideas like replacing all the ads with there own, or placing ads in pages that didn't previously have them.
> Ability to traffic shape (ie throttle/drop torrents)
> Transparent Proxy and Caching port 80.
> most of the features from the hotspot software
> payment via paypal
> I would like to be able to run the membership database off site, so > multiple sites can be linked together, allowing for roaming between > sites.
> Does any one have any thoughts, or ideas relating to this?
If you're comfterbale with fiddling around with open source stuff it can be done with the other things people have mentioned on this thread, but if you want something that is easy to setup and manage then the unifi stuff looks good:
I don't know how you'd do a hostspot + roaming between sites with the unifi stuff, you might have to right some custom web code to glue the sites together. Aternativly you could link the sites with a VPN and manage all the AP's from one controller (at which point they would effectivly be one site).
