Re: [WISPA] Hotspot/Billing/AAA options?

2013-03-23 Thread ralph
Thanks for the great comparison, Butch. You and I talked a couple of years ago about Gatespot. I did some searching and actually ran across some Gatespot systems in use. I then spoke to the operators of them. None of them seemed to use it heavily and not really for the type of use we have, and

Re: [WISPA] Hotspot/Billing/AAA options?

2013-03-23 Thread ralph
Thanks for that info, Paolo. One rate plan would never work for us, that is for sure. And DMA's support seems like it may all be only via Email, and probably from a time zone well ahead of ours. Wireless Orbit informed me yesterday that their Version 3 system is almost ready for release. It has a

Re: [WISPA] Hotspot/Billing/AAA options?

2013-03-23 Thread Paolo Di Francesco
Hi Ralph regarding the DMA Softlabs RADIUS Manager, it works with just one tariff profile. If you have multiple hotspots or things like that, it's not very flexible. Also take into account that a customized portal, it's not difficult to achieve if you store the portal (the code) on the mikrotik