Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Free WiFi Hotspot Authentication

[Howie Frisch]

One question that you may ask yourself here is what you are going to do with the information.  If you just want to have people come see you and tell you who they are, you could just implement MAC filtering and let them in or not.  Alternately, you could put in a simple WEP key and require that they ask you for it and change it weekly. If you start collecting information on who goes where, then you may find yourself needing to maintain records for long periods to comply with some non-obvious regulation.  You may not really want to know this stuff - you may just want to attract people to eat and drink and let them use your WiFi as a "magnet" to get them to you. Good Luck, Howie Frisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Barge wrote: I am looking for help/ideas on solving a problem.      I have a small sandwich shop/deli.  I am swamped from about 11:15 to 1:15 each day, but am pretty dead otherwise.  A few weeks ago, I put a wireless access point in my shop and advertised in the window that I now have free WiFi Internet.  I now have a few "regulars" that come in with their laptops, but I have not had problems (yet).      I am using a Netgear wireless router switch.  It was about $10 on sale at Staples.      I would like to track who is using my Internet.  I looked at a D-Link setup that would print receipts with an access code, but that is $900.       I would like to identify each user (via MAC address?) and record where they go while online, how long, etc.      Any suggestions?      Thanks,   Bill  &nbs! p; Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.