[RndTbl] Anyone have any Captive Portal set-up experience?

[Adam Thompson]

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 at 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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