lanceball wrote: > I'm curious about other coworking spaces and whether you are using a > captive portal so users have to log in. There are a few reasons why I > think this is an ideal setup. Mainly I want to monitor bandwidth usage > and lower P2P priority etc; and eventually plug it into some coworking > software (e.g. my not-yet-even-alpha http://github.com/lance/planomatic) > so that I can easily track things like 10-pass cards.
One easy way to do much of this (Captive Portal, lower P2P priority, etc) is to just use pfSense. If you load something like dd-wrt on a Linksys, then you can have SSIDs with different VLANs, and that will allow you to prioritize accordingly on your router/firewall out. I'm curious how you do the 10 pass thing. Perhaps there is something on SourceForge already that's similar. > I've seen the page of recommendations on the wiki - > http://coworking.pbwiki.com/WirelessNetworkRecommendations - and > there's a lot of good info. But I'm curious if any of you space owners > doing something like this already? If so, what's your setup? That URL mentions pfSense, which is the "best" firewall you can get for the money (assuming you have a piece of hardware lying around that you can use). pfSense also has an ntop plugin, which will allow you to see how much of the network is being used for garbage, like torrents, P2P, Kazaa, etc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
