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Date:  Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:24:27 +0700
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From:  "Jeffrey Race" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  "OS/2 Wireless List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Subject: [OS2Wireless] Need recommendations for WiFi portal architecture

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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