hot spot managment

Travis Roy travis at scootz.net
Tue Dec 14 07:08:01 EST 2004


>>I am working with a client of mine that owns a restaurant in Nashua he 
>>is looking to add a free hotpot to his restaurant but does not want
>>people not in the restaurant using it
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>>
>
>You could try encasing the restaurant in lead..
>  
>

This really is your only option. Even with directional antennas you're 
going to leak outside the building and people with directional antennas 
outside will probably be able to pick it up.

One way, that is not totally secure is to force the patrions to use 
restaraunt supplied wifi cards and only let the mac address from those 
cards have access.

You might want to look into signull's hotspot product. While it lets 
anybody connect, you still have to create a username and password to use 
the device so that at least allows an audit trail.



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