My nephew needs a recommendation for a captive portal service for a hotel.
Has anybody ever set one of these up? Advice?
Here are his particulars:
Hello to all who read this, My name is Andrew Popowich, and I was encouraged to send an email to this group in possibly getting some help. A hotel where I live, is needing a Guest Splash page to appear whenever someone connects to the wifi in the hotel. (Every time it is connected – I will explain) The internet is through Shaw, getting 150 open internet if they don’t have it already by now. We installed a Cisco RV320 (non WebFi unit) to split the internet into 2 networks. (192.168.130.1 – corporate // no wifi) and (192.168.123.1 – Guest wifi // no wired) We added a TP LINK 750 as the router for Wifi communication, connected to a switch, and then from the switch, 2 X TP LINK Archer C7 1750 as access points(dhcp disabled), and an enGenius 2.4 Ghz outdoor Access point (dhcp disabled) to spread more coverage. My question is this : What can I add to economically get a splash page to show every time a guest connects to the public wifi, including, when they leave the hotel, and come back, they have to re-sign in to that splash page to continue using the internet in their rooms ? I have access to computer parts and etc, if a computer can be added in the line to do this task, or will that idea even work ? Let me know if more information is needed. I appreciate any help I can get on this, Andrew Popowich p.s. I spoke with Shaw Business and they stated since the hotel has 53 rooms, the cost for Shaw’s Managed Wifi service, is $700 a month. And they would not be able to use ANY of the equipment that we have added in the past 4 months, total of that being around $2000.00 for equipment, and labor.
=== Bradford C. Vokey Treasurer Manitoba Unix User Group ===
I've used simple dd-wrt captive portal and it worked.
I'm fairly certain the ubiquity has a similar feature that I've touched with as well.
There are a few companies such as cloudessa that provide 'cloud captive portal services'.. that might be what you're looking for. I can't vouch for them at all though;
* http://cloudessa.com/products/cloudessa-aaa-and-captive-portal-cloud-service...
On 2016-09-12 8:45 AM, Bradford C. Vokey wrote:
My nephew needs a recommendation for a captive portal service for a hotel.
Has anybody ever set one of these up? Advice?
Here are his particulars:
Hello to all who read this, My name is Andrew Popowich, and I was encouraged to send an email to this group in possibly getting some help. A hotel where I live, is needing a Guest Splash page to appear whenever someone connects to the wifi in the hotel. (Every time it is connected – I will explain) The internet is through Shaw, getting 150 open internet if they don’t have it already by now. We installed a Cisco RV320 (non WebFi unit) to split the internet into 2 networks. (192.168.130.1 – corporate // no wifi) and (192.168.123.1 – Guest wifi // no wired) We added a TP LINK 750 as the router for Wifi communication, connected to a switch, and then from the switch, 2 X TP LINK Archer C7 1750 as access points(dhcp disabled), and an enGenius 2.4 Ghz outdoor Access point (dhcp disabled) to spread more coverage. My question is this : What can I add to economically get a splash page to show every time a guest connects to the public wifi, including, when they leave the hotel, and come back, they have to re-sign in to that splash page to continue using the internet in their rooms ? I have access to computer parts and etc, if a computer can be added in the line to do this task, or will that idea even work ? Let me know if more information is needed. I appreciate any help I can get on this, Andrew Popowich p.s. I spoke with Shaw Business and they stated since the hotel has 53 rooms, the cost for Shaw’s Managed Wifi service, is $700 a month. And they would not be able to use ANY of the equipment that we have added in the past 4 months, total of that being around $2000.00 for equipment, and labor.
=== Bradford C. Vokey Treasurer Manitoba Unix User Group ===
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Unfortunately, that's a dog's breakfast of consumer-grade hardware that should never have been installed in a commercial setting in the first place.
Shaw's offering is actually a pretty good price, surprisingly.
He could buy a pfSense/Netgate SG-2440 to replace the (p.o.s., IMHO) RV320 and get captive portal functionality built in. I would replace all the wireless with Ubiquity. But obviously the hotel doesn't want to spend any actual money on this, so... Grab an old PC, put 3 NICs in it, install pfSense Community Edition, and off to the races.
-Adam
On September 12, 2016 9:46:11 AM CDT, Robert Keizer robert@keizer.ca wrote:
I've used simple dd-wrt captive portal and it worked.
I'm fairly certain the ubiquity has a similar feature that I've touched with as well.
There are a few companies such as cloudessa that provide 'cloud captive portal services'.. that might be what you're looking for. I can't vouch for them at all though;
http://cloudessa.com/products/cloudessa-aaa-and-captive-portal-cloud-service...
On 2016-09-12 8:45 AM, Bradford C. Vokey wrote:
My nephew needs a recommendation for a captive portal service for a hotel.
Has anybody ever set one of these up? Advice?
Here are his particulars:
Hello to all who read this, My name is Andrew Popowich, and I was encouraged to send an email to this group in possibly getting some help. A hotel where I live, is needing a Guest Splash page to appear whenever someone connects to the wifi in the hotel. (Every time it is connected – I will explain) The internet is through Shaw, getting 150 open internet if they
don’t
have it already by now. We installed a Cisco RV320 (non WebFi unit) to split the internet into 2 networks. (192.168.130.1 – corporate // no wifi) and (192.168.123.1 – Guest wifi // no wired) We added a TP LINK 750 as the router for Wifi communication, connected to a
switch,
and then from the switch, 2 X TP LINK Archer C7 1750 as access points(dhcp disabled), and an enGenius 2.4 Ghz outdoor Access point (dhcp disabled) to spread more coverage. My question is this : What can I add to economically get a splash page to show every time a guest connects to the public wifi, including, when they leave the hotel, and come back, they have to re-sign in to that splash page to continue using the internet in their rooms ? I have access to computer parts and etc, if a computer can be added in the line to do this task, or will that idea even work ? Let me know if more information is needed. I appreciate any help I can get on this, Andrew Popowich p.s. I spoke with Shaw Business and they stated
since
the hotel has 53 rooms, the cost for Shaw’s Managed Wifi service, is $700 a month. And they would not be able to use ANY of the equipment that we have added in the past 4 months, total of that being around $2000.00 for equipment, and labor.
=== Bradford C. Vokey Treasurer Manitoba Unix User Group ===
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I'll second Adam's general comment... That equipment is not designed for the purpose that you are trying to use it for...
Almost any commercial grade WiFi solution would have guest access with splash-pages built in allowing you to run both internal corporate WiFi and guest WiFi securely on the same access points.
And 2 firewall/routers re-purposed as WiFi access points covering 53 rooms?!
Sorry to say but this just doesn't sound like a viable solution.
On 2016-09-12 Bradford C. Vokey wrote:
My nephew needs a recommendation for a captive portal service for a hotel.
Has anybody ever set one of these up? Advice?
You can do it with squid, iptables and a few tricks AFAIK. You'd just need to setup a linux box and the relevant software/settings. FWIW I've done it before many times, minus the web splash page part, but I recall that was possible to do too.
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