I know the Pasadena library uses something like this, what are some of the better solutions for this?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Proctor-Smith Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 4:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SOCALWUG] Re: Network Your Backyard > All the local mom & pop cafe's I go to, it's wide open, e.g. broadcast > no wep wpa, key or anything. The whole idea is it's value added or > anciliarary to their main business. It brings in foot traffic and other business. > > So, what's your business model? a internet cafe? > you have to ask, why would you want to hide or not broadcast? > Do you want them to come to the counter and ask, so they buy something? > Do you want to post the SSID on the wall? > Once they know, it they can add the profile. > > But then anyone with freeware open source, like Kismit or Netstumbler > can find the SSID and log on. If you are running a hot spot there is no point in running anything other then open encryption and broadcast SSID. You use what is called a captured gateway and and authorize authenticated clients at the ip level. Trap unauthorized client's web requests to a login page. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SOCALWUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SOCALWUG SOCALWUG website: http://www.socalwug.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
