Might want to try www.joltage.com , they are primarily involved in setting up a commercial network, however you can download their software for free, there is an option in the software to make your Hotspot free for all... The software is very easy to setup, they also make a windows and Linux version..
JL > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Julian Bond > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 4:09 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [BAWUG] Still waiting: Wintel package for private > Wifi+hotspot > > > Hi. I'm new here so feel free to tell me to shut up. ;-) I'm in an > interesting position in the UK, in that I'm webmaster for a > community of > early adopters and one which has the ear of BT and in > particular the BT > dept intending to roll out commercial WiFi hotspots. But I'm also in > love with "fast, cheap and out of control" and bottom up solutions. > > Some data-points. > > - As ever, the UK is 6-12 months behind the US, but WiFi device sales > are ramping up fast as price has recently dropped to a > realistic level. > - The biggest broadband ISP (BT Openworld) is promoting WiFi for home > and SME use by doing special offers with a mail order house. > - Several of the Broadband ISPs have relatively WiFi friendly T&Cs. > - The commercial provision of WiFi hotspots has just been > de-regulated > making legal both the Boingo and Starbucks business models. > > So as a result of promoting WiFi present and futures on > Ecademy, I find > myself in the position of being asked to recommend WiFi setups for > individuals or organizations who want to run WiFi for their > own use but > also do the right thing and make it accessible to occasional > passers by. > Some of these requests are for relatively public business meeting > places. > > But the catch is that very few of these people have much technical > ability. I find myself looking for an "Idiot's Guide" along with a > bandwidth/hardware/software package that makes everything reasonably > safe and secure while still offering public access. And a package > targeted at people who have an old Wintel PC that could be used as a > gateway. Who can run setup.exe but not much more. Or who are already > using things like MS ICS and Zonealarm to run a 3 PC network off one > broadband line. > > But despite spending a lot of time STFW, I can't find anything. It's > like there was a huge burst of activity 18 months ago, that > has slowed > up. All the major effort was around *nix based solutions. And so we > haven't quite got there yet. > > Meanwhile people *are* buying WiFi but they're installing it with > everything on default and wide open. Or if they have half a > clue, it's > closed down with 128 WEP and without DHCP. > > So I'm promoting the idea of a future; of a million people's hotspots > blanketing urban areas; of mesh network cells getting > broadband to rural > areas; of dynamic WiFi MANs that do internal file sharing, > shoutcasting, > gaming and so on without ever touching the internet; of WiFi > MANs that > aggregate their Internet bandwidth supply and demand across > multiple ISP > connections. And so on. All the blue sky stuff that is > bubbling around > this and other lists. > > But I can't even recommend a local solution to WiFi enable the house, > and share with the street but that I can feel comfortable with from a > control and security angle, and that is within reach of the average > upper-middle professional's level of clue. > > What to do? Surely the answer isn't "Wait for > M$-AOL-BT-Tiscali (insert > other hated BigCo-TelCo here)"? > > -- > Julian Bond Email&MSM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Webmaster: http://www.ecademy.com/ > Personal WebLog: http://www.voidstar.com/ > CV/Resume: http://www.voidstar.com/cv/ > M: +44 (0)77 5907 2173 T: +44 (0)192 0412 433 > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
