Limiting/Charging for Wifi access

homer911

A charity I do some (voluntary) work for currently runs an open Wifi network at an outdoor pursuits centre. Internet access is filtered using OpenDNS and site categorisation. (The place is used mainly by children/teenagers)

I've been asked to look into the possibility of (a) charging for time-limited access and (b) providing free, time limited access

I contacted Bitbuzz but they weren't interested or were unable to suggest a solution.

Has anyone any helpful suggestions? Are there any routers, or applications that would work with routers that would facilitiate this?

Staff in the centre are not IT savvy and it wont be possible to change a WEP/WPA key on the router every week or day. Ideally a user would be granted both a userid and password for an account for a defined period.

I'd be happy if they stopped broadcasting the SSID and perhaps changed this every so often, but that might be beyond them..

Thanks

codplayer

Look at WiFi Gator @ http://www.wifigator.com/

I've seen it in action in a few places. easy to setup 2!

They've a hosted solution or one were you admin the whole lot depending on your requirements.

homer911

I didnt realise there were so many options - here are a few more alternatives that are referenced on the wifigator site:

http://www.sputnik.com/ http://worldspot.net/ http://www.hotspotsystem.com/ http://meraki.com/

Cabaal

moving to wireless forum