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Title: Hotel broadband management system
Post by: brianr on June 22, 2006, 10:50:32 AM: Anyone come across a Hotel broadband management system that could be installed on SME7?

I've tried googling, with no results. I am happy to try the install and report back.
Title: Re: Hotel broadband management system
Post by: raem on June 22, 2006, 11:23:17 AM: brianr

> Anyone come across a Hotel broadband management system that could be installed on SME7?

You mean a QoS type of thing for users ?
There was this contrib for sme6

eneo-qos_cbq-0.1-05en.noarch.rpm

ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/contrib/eneo/RPMS/noarch/

It was configurable on a per user basis or could be configured to equally divide the bandwidth between all users.
Don't know if it works on sme7 or could be modified to work.
Title: Hotel broadband management system
Post by: brianr on June 22, 2006, 11:31:23 AM: Thanks, but no, I am looking for the sort of thing that will allow the hotel management to charge and control the use of the internet on a per user basis.
Title: Hotel broadband management system
Post by: icpix on June 22, 2006, 01:11:43 PM: Quote from: "brianr"
...management to charge and control the use of the internet on a per user basis.

Isn't that the sort of thing an internet cafe does?
ie expand your search to include that parameter.
----best wishes, Robert
Title: Hotel broadband management system
Post by: brianr on June 22, 2006, 01:37:05 PM: Quote from: "icpix"

Isn't that the sort of thing an internet cafe does?
ie expand your search to include that parameter.

Not quite - an internet cafe provides the PCs, whereas in a hotel the customers use their own. Therefore all the internet cafe programs I have looked at require (Windows based) software to be installed in the client PCs.

:-(
Title: Hotel broadband management system
Post by: icpix on June 22, 2006, 01:44:13 PM: brianr----
Modified SQUID or Dansguardian?
----best wishes, Robert
Title: Hotel broadband management system
Post by: brianr on June 22, 2006, 01:56:17 PM: Quote from: "icpix"
Modified SQUID or Dansguardian?

Yes I did look at them, but they are well away from the accounting requirements that there might be and we are not looking to control the content of the users, I dont think I either have the skill or the time to modify them.

There is a proprietary router/Wifi/Printer box that claims to do the job, or I could just use standard routers, WAP, etc and control the use via a changing WEP key and manual procedures, but I thought it was an ideal opportunity to get an SMEServer box through the door of this particular institution.
Title: Hotel broadband management system
Post by: icpix on June 22, 2006, 02:34:50 PM: brianr----
Last idea: it's a very simple idea! Nothing fancy - just an electro-mechanical relay timer switch on the CAT5 trunking? Afterall you're not looking into packet sniffing, content or censoring just on-line connectivity durations. Hotel guests pre-book an hour's connx...
----best wishes, Robert
Title: Hotel broadband management system
Post by: NickCritten on June 22, 2006, 02:43:37 PM: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl/12/01/0342209
Title: Hotel broadband management system
Post by: haymann on June 22, 2006, 06:05:57 PM: I just installed pfSense (http://www.pfsense.com/) last night. It has a captive portal feature built into it. I haven't checked it out yet, but it looked promising... Of course this is just a firewall, not a full-featured server like SME.
Ryan
Title: Hotel broadband management system
Post by: kmccarn on June 23, 2006, 12:54:35 PM: I would try using a Point of Presence app installed on a Linksys router behind the SME.

Check out http://www.wrt54g.net/ and look for hotspot firmware

:-D
Title: pfsense
Post by: romst on June 26, 2006, 09:45:05 PM: Pfsense works fine with captive portal from m0n0 project (http://m0n0.ch).
It's not only firewall, ports from freebsd are included. :-)
Title: Hotel broadband management system
Post by: duncan on June 27, 2006, 09:44:49 AM: Whilst its not a freeish type solution - Ive just done a hotel with a Tut VDSL setup and an Expressway (http://www.tutsys.com/pdflibrary/pdf/Expressway%20Hotel%20Gateway%20PDS.pdf)billing solution.