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Date:  Sat, 18 Jun 2005 19:35:00 -0400
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From:  Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] Need recommendations for WiFi portal architecture

Hi, Jeffrey.

One of our subsidiaries is Hautspot, LLC. Hautspot provides managed 
hotspots for various venues (see www.hautspot.com). We use technology from 
Sputnik, Inc (www.sputnik.com) for our authentication, etc. (captive 
portal). Sputnik's portal is based on NoCatAuth, which is open source.

Important things to consider when deploying a hotspot are bandwidth 
management (remember that APs are like hubs, so if someone is hogging the 
connection with streaming media, others may be disadvantaged) and walling 
clients from each other (so that someone who is probing for ports on his 
neighbor's ws won't find anything open - even though they're on the same 
subnet). Even the latest firmware for the LinkSys  WRT54G from SVEASOFT 
can't do these things.

If you'd like us to manage the hotspot, shoot me private mail and we'll 
work something out. If you want to host the system, you can do it using 
NoCatAuth & your own Linux server, along wth some custom firmware for a 
supported AP. Alternatively, Sputnik offers their Sputnik Net hosted 
package.

HTH
___
Lewis
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Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLE
Rosenthal & Rosenthal
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...... Original Message .......
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:24:27 +0700 "Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net> 
wrote:
>I have just been selected to join a committee here in Bangkok charged with
>improving one the buildings of a private club to which I belong.   One of 
our
>tasks is to pep up a large open reception area, and the thinking is to 
change
>its present sterile hospital-waiting-room atmosphere by creating a relaxed 
>and fun snack/sitting area.    I would like to suggest adding WiFi but 
don't
>have a good sense of the costs for equipment and s/w.    Our club has
>broadband so I think at the h/w level we could just plug an AP into the 
LAN.   
>
>Questions:
>
>1-Is this naive assumption correct?  If not, how not?
>
>2-Should we consider to impose some access restriction?   Each club
>   member has a p/w to access the club website from outside.   Should
>   we consider to have (as I have run into at the PGA in West Palm Beach)
>   a portal page where one logs in with his p/w, which then passes one on
>   to the world of the internet?    I assume this would create logs which
>   could be studied in case there were later a problem.
>
>   If this is worth considering, what s/w is involved?   Can it be 
purchased?
>   Free?
>
>3-I doubt we will have any spammers sitting in our lobby (there is a 
50-year
>   waiting list to join) but should we consider any port restrictions or 
other
>   restrictions?   
>
>I welcome ideas on the above, as well as anything I should have asked and
>have forgotten, and pointers to resources I should read up on.
>
>Thanks for all help.
>
>Jeffrey Race

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