Thanks! From: Bryce Duchcherer Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 2:34 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Motel WiFi Authentication
I did a hotel a few months ago using UniFi and MikroTik. We are running Hotspot service on the MikroTik (RB1100AHx2) and UserManager. For user account creation I put in a HotSpot printer from Technologic. It uses API to create user accounts in UserManager so it is very easy for clerks to be able to create users for guests. You can set limits for days, speed, data transfer, etc. It’s not cheap, and not the easiest to set up but once it is in it works well. Check out www.hotspot-printer.com Another option, depending on the billing system they use, could be to use radius integrated with their billing system to create users. Or, you could just enable user manager and the clerk could create users in the web interface. If you want some more info shoot me an email off list. Bryce D bduc...@netago.ca From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of wi...@mncomm.com Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 11:24 To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Motel WiFi Authentication Not sure if I should post to UBNT or Mikrotik. Anyways we have a few motels that we run the UniFi APs in and they offer free use of the service. Of course its all you can eat for anyone across the street from the motel, or those who loiter in the parking lots. I havent really stayed in enough motels to see how they do them but what’s a way that users can get a temp username & password when they check in? I havent dinked with it much on the UniFi. I can see how to do it, kind of, with hotspot on a Mikrotik, but I am not sure I would want a desk clerk dinking with the router. I am assuming that UniFi would be easier to use for this. Problem I have is with the few motels using UniFi they hardly ever keep the software running, and only turn it on when they need remote help from me. We have something similar set up with our ISP billing system for a few campgrounds where they create their own credential then pay a few, but I had to contract a lot of that out due to my inexperience. Maybe I need to look into the Amazon solution. Would be cool to run UniFi on a Mikrotik router. I also assume with them being authenticated we can track bandwidth hogs better. We have quite a few motels that have mostly permanent guests full time, people that never leave the room constantly downloading movies. On the unifi we could always see who they were by MAC only, but forcing someone to log in may help with the abuse. thanks heith -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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