John Foust wrote:
> By offering limited free access, I can still make money 
> (or at least not lose money) selling ready-to-go radios,
> antennas, cables and customer premise installations.  

If you provide for-pay access, you have to block free-riders, which is
what a "captive portal" can do for you.  If instead you intend to make
money from selling equipment, you will have to block people from using
equipment from other sources.  The traditional way to do this is to
use non-standard, proprietary technology, e.g. IBM mainframes using
EBCDIC terminals instead of standard ASCII.  What's your plan?

> Presuming I can make a good impression and build good will,
> it grows my business-oriented consulting.

Do you really want consulting customers among the ones who won't even
pay $9.95 per month for Internet access?


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