Hotel Setup - Some hotspot functionality.

[aunixguru]

I have a pc running Staros 2.00.2 B4346.

It has a radio on 192.168.50.10 pointing 5 miles to my tower.
I want to use ether1 to connect to the hotel Lan and accomplish the following:

Have the captive portal prompt user for login / pass (room# / room#)

Then maybe assign an IP based on that like room 200 gets 192.168.70.200 and so on. I need this so I can track who is doing what.

I basically want a way to know what room is using the bandwidth.

Anyone have any ideas as to the best way to accomplish this.
I do have my own freeradius server I can use to authenticate.

I also would like the ability for a simple splash page (advertising).

Maybe I don't need radius to do it. Is there a way to do this without authentication?

Thanks,
Rich Hatherill
CnyWireless

[yurtesen]

You can put a splash page before login in staros hotspot implementation or you can put a banner to the login page instead.

But that is the least of your problems :)

If your user/pass are the same then you would have the dilemma that people might use wrong room numbers etc. So the passwords should be set by the reception when somebody wants to use your hotspot.

So its a little bit difficult to follow the rooms when you use wireless. It might be a lot easier to put ethernet network to each room. I believe a person who has wireless in his laptop surely would have ethernet too :)

Or then you can setup a credit card billing system that the people in rooms pay few bucks for using the system. Like an activation price for 1 day. You can set the price to $1 for a day of usage.

If you do the billing system, then you can also set $1 for 64kbits and $5 for 512kbits connection. This way, you dont have to watch the bandwidth usage also. Since people would be using what they pay for at maximum.

Or if you want free access then you can give 128kbit/sec per IP limit or something so people wouldnt overrun the network. I dont think people staying in a hotel come there to download movies from internet, they usually check their emails and surf on the net etc. so for 1 computer 128kbit/sec would be more than enough...

I dont know if this is possible with staros but you can also do a bandwidth limit but allow burst. For example you allow 128kbit limit and you have a total of 2mbits. You can let people to burst up to 2mbits when nobody else is using the connection. This would be the ideal although most difficult to configure depending on your situation.

It is always lots of more trouble when you give unlimited bandwidth to people and try to watch it and then complain to this person. After all the customer is always right.

Evren

[lonnie]

I agree, you should have room/pass issued by the reception as they chck in. This should be done with radius, in fact our Hotspot requires radius for authentication.

You can assign the IP from radius as well as the bandwidth allowed. It is also possible to assign the FB rule which allows the higher number for short period downloads, as in browsing where the response time is immediately apparent. It simply slows to 50% after about 1 minute of sustained heavy use.

[aunixguru]

You can put a splash page before login in staros hotspot implementation or you can put a banner to the login page instead.

But that is the least of your problems :)

If your user/pass are the same then you would have the dilemma that people might use wrong room numbers etc. So the passwords should be set by the reception when somebody wants to use your hotspot.

So its a little bit difficult to follow the rooms when you use wireless. It might be a lot easier to put ethernet network to each room. I believe a person who has wireless in his laptop surely would have ethernet too :)

Or then you can setup a credit card billing system that the people in rooms pay few bucks for using the system. Like an activation price for 1 day. You can set the price to $1 for a day of usage.

If you do the billing system, then you can also set $1 for 64kbits and $5 for 512kbits connection. This way, you dont have to watch the bandwidth usage also. Since people would be using what they pay for at maximum.

Or if you want free access then you can give 128kbit/sec per IP limit or something so people wouldnt overrun the network. I dont think people staying in a hotel come there to download movies from internet, they usually check their emails and surf on the net etc. so for 1 computer 128kbit/sec would be more than enough...

I dont know if this is possible with staros but you can also do a bandwidth limit but allow burst. For example you allow 128kbit limit and you have a total of 2mbits. You can let people to burst up to 2mbits when nobody else is using the connection. This would be the ideal although most difficult to configure depending on your situation.

It is always lots of more trouble when you give unlimited bandwidth to people and try to watch it and then complain to this person. After all the customer is always right.

Evren