Hi Dylan, On 4/19/07, Dylan Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I believe I posted the following message before you joined the list. I'm very interested to hear your thoughts on my wishlist. I don't, for the record, object to Meraki making money off of the system, but I *do* need a way to integrate with billing such that my users paying for access through the Canopy system can get free access through Meraki nodes whereever they roam. Feel free to post your response back to the thread.
We don't currently have a method to receive a signal from an external source that a particular MAC should be granted access, but I can imagine us putting that in place if there's a great enough demand. It would require Canopy's system to signal ours. Presumably you know whether that's available.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dylan Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Apr 18, 2007 11:39 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> I second the motion for Meraki. I only ordered a single unit to see what it has to offer, as documentation is sparse. It would be great for your application. The Outdoor units are $100, and are just the $50 minis in a plastic enclosure with a small (2 dBi?) rubber ducky and right-angle RP-SMA adapter. The radios are PoE, and there's another hole in the enclosure through which a pigtail (<1/2" diameter, as I learned) might be routed for an external antenna. It's all dead easy; just connect every fifth one or so to your primary wireless system. They actually have rudimentary support for connecting upstream through non-mesh wifi, but there would be a performance hit. My problem with the Meraki system is that it does not, at this point, allow you to do a combination of free and paid service (paid services are active now, Doug). It's either or. If it's set to paid, even YOU pay. I'd like to GIVE a Meraki node to every subscriber and offer a limited free service, free extended access for the subscribers hosting the nodes, and paid daily/monthly service for others. People share, so why not help them and, at worst, get a little marketing exposure by making freeloaders look at my logo every time they log on. Regular subscribers would be able to log on anywhere someone else on my network hosted a node. That house just out of range but within view of another house on my network could live (happily, in lieu of alternatives) with wifi service through the neighbor's mesh node. Unfortunately, this isn't possible yet.
There's not really a question in here, but I'll affirm the statement. Currently a network can only be configured in one of several ways. We are investigating offering multiple modes but this happens to take lower priority than some features we're already working on (viz. WPA support). If you're inclined to give access to a handful of devices, you can just whitelist the MAC addresses for those devices. When whitelisted devices attempt to access the network, they should bypass the splash/authentication screen. Let me know if you try to set this up and how well it works for your installation. We recognize that by-hand whitelisting won't really work for offering tiered services, though. Regards, Chase -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
