Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider

2013-11-24 Thread Butch Evans
On 11/20/2013 06:26 PM, ralph wrote: Didn't we go through this with them already though. Lacks some important feature I can't remember. Maybe it was multiple, different payment plans for multiple different hotspots or something else. Perhaps it was not having MAC authentication for

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit Shutdown

2013-11-23 Thread Justin Douglas
Hi Mark, they are closing down because they couldn't make the service profitable with such a low monthly fee they were asking. So i don't suggest to find a similarly cheap alternative. I'm using www.hotspotsystem.com, they offer a premium service but they are very flexible so if you tell them

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider

2013-11-21 Thread ralph
Schoolfield Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 9:02 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider Sorry to jump in on this thread. Someone else called it to my attention and thought we might have something to say about it. To those that have

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider

2013-11-20 Thread Mike Hammett
5:42:14 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider You really should do this yourself, especially if you can program a website Why pay someone else every day as your users sign up? Use mikrotik hotspot, clear box radius and a sql server. Then you

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider

2013-11-20 Thread Mike Hammett
: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 5:53:08 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider If I could code it, I would. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider

2013-11-20 Thread Butch Evans
On 11/20/2013 08:42 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: From what I know of Wireless Orbit (admittedly very little), it does what hotspot + WISPMon would do. Not sure about WISPMon capabilities here, but these types of software are ALL the same capabilities as a minimum requirement. 1. They provide a

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider

2013-11-20 Thread ralph
I wasn't given a reason. From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:31 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider Can you share why Wireless

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider

2013-11-20 Thread ralph
Gustaffson Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider On 11/19/2013 05:42 PM, Scott Carullo wrote: You really should do this yourself, especially if you can program a website Why pay someone else every day as your users sign up? Use mikrotik hotspot, clear

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider

2013-11-20 Thread ralph
...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Scott Carullo Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 6:42 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider You really should do this yourself, especially if you can program a website Why pay someone else every day

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider

2013-11-19 Thread ralph
...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of John Scrivner Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 2:17 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider Perhaps you could contact them to see about acquiring their business? Do you have contact information for them

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider

2013-11-19 Thread Josh Luthman
2:17 AM *To:* WISPA General List *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider Perhaps you could contact them to see about acquiring their business? Do you have contact information for them? John Scrivner On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:36 PM, ralph

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider

2013-11-19 Thread Scott Carullo
To: j...@mvn.net, WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider I have the contact info for the Owner/CoFounder of Wireless Orbit. I have been with them since they started in Palo Alto. I visited them there. Last week he did

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider

2013-11-19 Thread Josh Luthman
still own and maintain it... Scott Carullo Technical Operations 855-FLSPEED x102 -- *From*: ralph ralphli...@bsrg.org *Sent*: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:27 PM *To*: j...@mvn.net, WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org *Subject*: Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider

2013-11-19 Thread Butch Evans
On 11/19/2013 05:42 PM, Scott Carullo wrote: You really should do this yourself, especially if you can program a website Why pay someone else every day as your users sign up? Use mikrotik hotspot, clear box radius and a sql server. Then you write the code... its a little bit of work

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider

2013-11-17 Thread Joe Miller
...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of John Scrivner Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 1:17 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider Perhaps you could contact them to see about acquiring their business? Do you have contact information for them

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit closing. Interested in new portal provider

2013-11-16 Thread John Scrivner
Perhaps you could contact them to see about acquiring their business? Do you have contact information for them? John Scrivner On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:36 PM, ralph ralphli...@bsrg.org wrote: We've been using Wireless Orbit for our captive portal AAA and payments for years. Now they drop

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit??

2012-04-09 Thread Rick Kunze
At 07:43 AM 4/3/2012, you wrote: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/User_Manager/User_sign_up#Setup I must be missing something here. This sounds great, but I can't find it anywhere. I've gone around and around on their web site, but every link to user-manager takes me back to the same download

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit??

2012-04-09 Thread Blair Davis
It is MikroTik. there are no docs. On 4/9/2012 10:54 AM, Rick Kunze wrote: At 07:43 AM 4/3/2012, you wrote: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/User_Manager/User_sign_up#Setup I must be missing something here. This sounds great, but I can't

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit??

2012-04-09 Thread Gerard Dupont III
You need to download the all packages zip file for your platform and then copy the user-manager npk file onto the router and then reboot. Gerard On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Rick Kunze rku...@colusanet.com wrote: At 07:43 AM 4/3/2012, you wrote:

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit??

2012-04-09 Thread Rick Kunze
At 02:51 PM 4/9/2012, you wrote: You need to download the all packages zip file for your platform and then copy the user-manager npk file onto the router and then reboot. Nope, already did that. Something tells me that user-manager is now incorporated into the OS. It would be nice if the docs

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit??

2012-04-03 Thread Chuck Hogg
other brands of Aps just plug them into a $39 750 for the front end. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 5:55 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit??

2012-04-03 Thread Josh Luthman
other brands of Aps just plug them into a $39 750 for the front end. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 5:55 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit??

2012-04-03 Thread Chuck Hogg
...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 5:55 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit?? User creation?  Front end? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit??

2012-04-03 Thread Josh Luthman
To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit?? User creation?  Front end? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Jim Patient jpati...@linktechs.net wrote: Why not just use Mikrotik

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit??

2012-04-02 Thread Jim Patient
Why not just use Mikrotik User Manager and you don't have to pay commission to a third party? We've been running it on a routerboard for years without issue. We have virtual Aps on all our residential repeaters running a hotspot pointed to one. It's simple and works great. Jim -Original

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit??

2012-04-02 Thread Josh Luthman
User creation? Front end? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Jim Patient jpati...@linktechs.net wrote: Why not just use Mikrotik User Manager and you don't have to pay commission to a third party?  

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit??

2012-04-02 Thread Jim Patient
...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 5:55 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit?? User creation? Front end? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit??

2012-04-02 Thread Josh Luthman
Of Josh Luthman Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 5:55 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit?? User creation? Front end? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Jim Patient jpati

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit??

2012-03-26 Thread Joe Miller
I use themit works pretty well Joe Miller DSLbyAir, LLC 228-831-8881 www.dslbyair.com - Original Message - From: Rick Kunze rku...@colusanet.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 12:52 PM Subject: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit?? I ran across a link to

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit??

2012-03-26 Thread Justin Wilson
They are still around. Basically they are hosted radius. There is not much to their service so they have never maintained their site very well. But it does work. Justin -Original Message- From: Rick Kunze rku...@colusanet.com Reply-To: WISPA General List

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit??

2012-03-26 Thread Jerry Richardson
Using them now. It has some hitches, but I tied it in with MT HotSpot and OpenX for ads and it's pretty stable. They were supposed to be in a big development push, but so far nothing. On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Rick Kunze rku...@colusanet.com wrote: I ran across a link to a company

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit??

2012-03-26 Thread Scott Reed
Hosted RADIUS with connections to Authorize.net and Paypal payment portals. Might make getting payments a little easier than roll-your-own. On 3/26/2012 2:12 PM, Justin Wilson wrote: They are still around. Basically they are hosted radius. There is not much to their service so

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Orbit??

2012-03-26 Thread Mark Theis
We use it as well. Works well. Their default skin is not great, but they allow you to create your own design that you can upload pretty easily. On 3/26/12 11:03 AM, Joe Miller joe.mil...@dslbyair.com wrote: I use themit works pretty well Joe Miller DSLbyAir, LLC 228-831-8881