Re: [WISPA] Question about hosting client's POS merchant account for credit card processing

2011-04-13 Thread Ben West
Faisal, Thank you especially for the response that the network-aware CC readers (should) encrypt their traffic. I was having difficulty finding non-ambiguous information about that. I'm still looking at options for possible lightweight VPN solutions, whether to add another layer of security to t

Re: [WISPA] Question about hosting client's POS merchant account for credit card processing

2011-04-13 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
Hi Ben, You can slice this in as many ways as you like... However if you want to keep it simple and effective... Here is the rundown If they are using the correct processor, who is able to do these transactions over IP / via the Internet, then you don't have to worry about any of this..

Re: [WISPA] Question about hosting client's POS merchant account for credit card processing

2011-04-13 Thread Jerry Richardson
sting client's POS merchant account for credit card processing Thanks everyone for your responses re: serving clients' credit card readers; they were very helpful. A related question I asked on another listserv: does anyone use lightweight VPN solutions in their CPE to create tunnels fr

Re: [WISPA] Question about hosting client's POS merchant account for credit card processing

2011-04-13 Thread Sam Tetherow
network aware CC terminals do not encrypt their own traffic? On 4/13/11 1:30 PM, Ben West wrote: Thanks everyone for your responses re: serving clients' credit card readers; they were very helpful. A related question I asked on another listserv: does anyone use lightweight VPN solutions in th

Re: [WISPA] Question about hosting client's POS merchant account for credit card processing

2011-04-13 Thread Ben West
Thanks everyone for your responses re: serving clients' credit card readers; they were very helpful. A related question I asked on another listserv: does anyone use lightweight VPN solutions in their CPE to create tunnels from the client's location, thru your backhaul, back to your wired/fibered u

Re: [WISPA] Question about hosting client's POS merchant account for credit card processing

2011-04-12 Thread Charles Wu
ss-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Ben West Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 7:15 PM To: wireless@wispa.org Subject: [WISPA] Question about hosting client's POS merchant account for credit card processing I am curious if anyone has experience providing wireless service to sm

Re: [WISPA] Question about hosting client's POS merchant account for credit card processing

2011-04-12 Thread Scott Reed
I have at least one that got the connection specifically for the POS. No questions about how delivered. POS devices are on the store-wide LAN. I would suspect I have others that do POS that I don't know about. And lots of places use HughesNet, etc. How would we be any worse? On 4/11/2011 8:14

Re: [WISPA] Question about hosting client's POS merchant account for credit card processing

2011-04-12 Thread Steve Barnes
pa.org Subject: [WISPA] Question about hosting client's POS merchant account for credit card processing I am curious if anyone has experience providing wireless service to small businesses who use a POS credit card system. My own chats with various small biz owners here in St. Louis suggests

Re: [WISPA] Question about hosting client's POS merchant account for credit card processing

2011-04-11 Thread Patrick Shoemaker
Also keep in mind that most transactions done with these machines over POTS are unencrypted. So don't try to plug one into a VoIP ATA. On 4/11/2011 20:20, Josh Luthman wrote: All of my customers are through wireless medium. There are a handful with the credit card processing machines you see

Re: [WISPA] Question about hosting client's POS merchant account for credit card processing

2011-04-11 Thread Josh Luthman
All of my customers are through wireless medium. There are a handful with the credit card processing machines you see everywhere (the blue thin ones). No complaints. 90% of these units have a 10baseT (that's ten not one hundred) Ethernet port. I have seen a couple that DO NOT have an Ethernet p

[WISPA] Question about hosting client's POS merchant account for credit card processing

2011-04-11 Thread Ben West
I am curious if anyone has experience providing wireless service to small businesses who use a POS credit card system. My own chats with various small biz owners here in St. Louis suggests that their merchant account providers tend to expect a twisted-pair phone line and/or dedicated DSL/cable, no