On Saturday 25 March 2006 03:48 pm, Keith Morse wrote: > Jim Conner wrote: > > I am going to bid on setting up a wireless hotspot for a hotel. It has > > 300+ rooms, so theoretically it could have 300+ wireless users signed on > > at once. I've been looking at various hardware manufactures. One router > > I've found is the D-Link Airspot - DSA-5100 - Public/Private Hot Spot > > Gateway. It's about $2700 USD. It would do the job with the correct > > number of WAPs. I've been looking around for hardware that is comparable > > and/or cheaper that will do the job. Any one here have any experience > > doing stuff like this? If so, am I pointed in the right direction? Any > > ideas/suggestions would be appreciated. > > If this list is an inappropriate place to post this type of question, it > would only be because of the nature of most postings here tend to be > social, political, and theological. Two places I can think of that > this would be addressed in spades. (not all links are verified) > > > http://www.80211hotspots.com/ > This one is associated with www.internet.com > > http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-wireless/archives/ > Also part of the internet.com empire. Last time I checked, it was a > very high volume list. Lots of knowledgable people though > > http://archives.part-15.org/listarchive.asp?maillist=wisp > Also a high volume list and has lots of knowledgable people there. > > > I tend to dislike D-Link mainly due to my interactions with their soho > based equipment. I've not used the commercial variations. > > Others I'd suggest taking a look are are Mikrotik > (http://www.mikrotik.com), StarOS (http://www.staros.com). > > Some open source ones are: > http://islay.dyndns.org/sesame/sesame.html > http://www.publicip.net/ > http://www.lessnetworks.com/ > > Some other websites to investigate would be: > http://www.personaltelco.net/ > http://www.howtoforge.com/wifi_hotspot_setup > http://www.lessnetworks.com/ > http://www.seattlewireless.com/ > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > Unsub/Pause/Etc : > http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
I posted this here because it's not linux related. I was hoping that somebody had some experience doing this sort of thing. Thanks for the info. I'll look into the links that you gave me. Jim -- 22:01:01 up 28 days, 19:13, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.15, 0.17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Mandriva 2005LE - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... Registered Linux User: 181038 -- http://counter.li.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] Unsub/Pause/Etc : http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
