That is interesting, but I'm really having trouble figuring out the business
model of this particular captive portal implementation.
From what I see, it is centered on Batman/Robin based radios, requires a
hefty monthly fee, and plays ads.
Unless I am reading wrong, you can't connect your legacy network if you
choose not to use that type of mesh, or even a mesh at all.
The ads seem to be chosen by the Silverlining People for lack of a better
term. Is that correct?
I don't see any support for Authorize.net , iPay, or any other system other
than PayPal.
What if you don't want to have ads?
What/where is the open source part? Is it just the Batman/Robin stuff?
Please give us more information about how this portal could be used for any
other thing than serving ads on these Meraki-ish radios, which are by no
means carrier class.
Thanks
Ralph
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Jerry Richardson
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 12:38 AM
To: motor...@afmug.com; WISPA General List
Subject: [WISPA] SilverLining
We rolled out SilverLining's new OPEN SOURCE captive portal system with
PayPal and OpenX ad server integration on Sunday.
Yesterday we had 1000 splash page displays so we are seeing some good usage.
I'm sure that there are a fair number of users that are re-logging in after
the 30 minutes/50MB limits are reached but that's just driving them back to
the splash page where they see ads.
We are not seeing takers on the paid service, but that's fine - I'm really
after the Ad Revenue anyway. we'll see some takers on the 15/month service
which will help as well. Plus we will be advertising our services at no cost
to us.
We have the software running on an Alix board and it's doing fine. I'm
pleased.
Blog page here:
http://blog.silverliningnetworks.com/2010/08/announcing-the-silversplash-ope
n-source-captive-portal.html
Discussion here: http://groups.google.com/group/silversplash
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