I'm looking for a way to use Freewifi_secure in France via some sort
of router/access point that will get me a bit more range than just
using WiFi from a mobile phone or laptop.

EAP-SIM is a way to authenticate a WiFi user/connection with some sort
of content of a mobile phone SIM.  You get a SIM from Free in France
(the basic, low usage one is only 2.99 Euros/month) and, if you put it
in your mobile phone it will automatically make a WiFi connection to
any FreeWifi_secure hotspot it can see.

It's (fairly) easy to do the same authentication from a Linux
computer, there's a couple of sites I've found describing how to do
it.   However this doesn't improve the range really (unless you happen
to have a super-sensitive WiFi in your laptop).

So I was wondering if I run Openwrt in an outdoor router/access point
of some sort that also has a USB dongle slot where I can insert the
SIM reader I could get what I want.

Thus, I want an outdoor box that can run Openwrt (easily please!) and
has a USB slot. Any suggestions?

One possibility might be a Mikrotik but I'm not sure what their
outdoor options are like.

-- 
Chris Green
_______________________________________________
openwrt-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users

Reply via email to