There is some potential liability in this. You don't know if friends are visiting and using the computer...or, the subscriber has an Wi-Fi w/o WAP/WEP and others are (potentially accidentally) using it. In any case, you could be slandering the subscriber by calling them deadbeats to other people.
It seems more polite to hit them over and over or persistantly with a demand that they contact a phone number to address a problem with their subscription. It also may stop a law suit...a typical response from a real deadbeat. Cutting off the service is an option but it may enrage the person to "never do business with that company again." What you need to do is talk with them without slandering them. ...just a thought... . . . J o n a t h a n -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of sa...@michianawireless.com Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 6:03 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Redirect Well. We kinda do this now. When a customer get to far out. We manually add a rule to the router at the tower site he is connected to that redirects all his port 80 traffic to a webpage that says basically, "You didn't pay you bill for a long time and you need to contact us and make a payment to before your web surfing will be available again." Email still works, etc... We will still do that. But what I am trying to accomplish is to have my billing system log into the client as soon as is hits 31+ in the billing system and set a rule on the router board that will now occasionally interrupt the clients web browsing by redirecting them to a page letting them know they are now 31+ past due and offer them the chance to pay now. If they chose to not pay now, they can just continue with what they were doing. This way they are always in the "know" that they are behind and are presented with a way to cure that immediately. Again since the client is not way behind I just want the surfing to be redirect occasionally. Next step would be after this is gone on and they hit 40 days the next script would be ran where it redirects all there web traffic indefinitely to the pay your bill page until paid. I hope that explains it better. Thanks, John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Profito" <cprof...@cv-access.com> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:45:59 AM GMT -05:00 Columbia Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Redirect Why not just a redirect of all port 80 traffic on that ip at 60 days, to the 'Gracious Offer' page, "If you call in the next seven days there will be no reup fees, please see your e-mail!", Or maybe just redirect them to a Web Mail Portal sign in page... then 7-14 days later it ALL gets turned off including cancellation fees, if any. Chuck Profito 209-988-7388 CV-ACCESS, INC cprof...@cv-access.com Providing High Speed Broadband to Rural Central California -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Eje Gustafsson Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 6:05 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Redirect Yepp bit expected. Because a web page consists of multiple images most of the time and if you use every nth you never know if that rule will then hit a icon, text page or picture file that is retrieved. You could setup something that uses the hotspot service and the advertisement banners. Or I created a solution with Gatespot that when the user login to the hotspot will redirect them to a messaging system that will display any messages to the user if there are any and if there isn't then the user will get their original requested webpage just like normal. / Eje -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of sa...@michianawireless.com Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 7:24 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Mikrotik Redirect What I am attempting to do is setup a script to put on the client routerboard when there account becomes 30+ days behind. This script will occasionally redirect the clients web browser to a notice page that lets them know there account is past due and offer a payment page. If they refresh they should be able to continue browsing. This is intended to be multipurpose, informative to the user in case they forgot to pay, offer a quick way to get caught up and be a tad annoying until paid. I tried this experiment on my home connection: 0 X chain=dstnat action=dst-nat to-addresses=1.2.3.4 to-ports=80 protocol=tcp src-address=0.0.0.0/0 dst-address=!1.2.3.4 dst-port=80 nth=5,1 Really did not work as planned. Occasionally I would get the page at the 1.2.3.4 server but most of the time I would get broken links and partially displayed pages? John Buwa Michiana Wireless -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ---- WISPA Wants You! 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