You're correct with the liability thing... it sucks that people sue over such petty things.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jonathan Schmidt" <jeschm...@jeschmidt.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 6:38 PM To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Redirect > There is some potential liability in this. > > You don't know if friends are visiting and using the computer...or, the > subscriber has an Wi-Fi w/o WAP/WEP and others are (potentially > accidentally) using it. In any case, you could be slandering the > subscriber by calling them deadbeats to other people. > > It seems more polite to hit them over and over or persistantly with a > demand that they contact a phone number to address a problem with their > subscription. It also may stop a law suit...a typical response from a > real deadbeat. > > Cutting off the service is an option but it may enrage the person to > "never do business with that company again." What you need to do is talk > with them without slandering them. > > ...just a thought... > > . . . J o n a t h a n > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of sa...@michianawireless.com > Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 6:03 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Redirect > > Well. We kinda do this now. When a customer get to far out. We manually > add a rule to the router at the tower site he is connected to that > redirects all his port 80 traffic to a webpage that says basically, "You > didn't pay you bill for a long time and you need to contact us and make a > payment to before your web surfing will be available again." Email still > works, etc... > > We will still do that. But what I am trying to accomplish is to have my > billing system log into the client as soon as is hits 31+ in the billing > system and set a rule on the router board that will now occasionally > interrupt the clients web browsing by redirecting them to a page letting > them know they are now 31+ past due and offer them the chance to pay now. > If they chose to not pay now, they can just continue with what they were > doing. This way they are always in the "know" that they are behind and are > presented with a way to cure that immediately. Again since the client is > not way behind I just want the surfing to be redirect occasionally. > > Next step would be after this is gone on and they hit 40 days the next > script would be ran where it redirects all there web traffic indefinitely > to the pay your bill page until paid. > > I hope that explains it better. > > Thanks, > John > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chuck Profito" <cprof...@cv-access.com> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:45:59 AM GMT -05:00 Columbia > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Redirect > > Why not just a redirect of all port 80 traffic on that ip at 60 days, to > the 'Gracious Offer' page, "If you call in the next seven days there will > be no reup fees, please see your e-mail!", Or maybe just redirect them to > a Web Mail Portal sign in page... then 7-14 days later it ALL gets turned > off including cancellation fees, if any. > > > Chuck Profito > 209-988-7388 > CV-ACCESS, INC > cprof...@cv-access.com > Providing High Speed Broadband > to Rural Central California > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Eje Gustafsson > Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 6:05 PM > To: 'WISPA General List' > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Redirect > > Yepp bit expected. Because a web page consists of multiple images most of > the time and if you use every nth you never know if that rule will then > hit a icon, text page or picture file that is retrieved. > > You could setup something that uses the hotspot service and the > advertisement banners. Or I created a solution with Gatespot that when the > user login to the hotspot will redirect them to a messaging system that > will display any messages to the user if there are any and if there isn't > then the user will get their original requested webpage just like normal. > > > / Eje > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of sa...@michianawireless.com > Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 7:24 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: [WISPA] Mikrotik Redirect > > What I am attempting to do is setup a script to put on the client > routerboard when there account becomes 30+ days behind. This script will > occasionally redirect the clients web browser to a notice page that lets > them know there account is past due and offer a payment page. If they > refresh they should be able to continue browsing. This is intended to be > multipurpose, informative to the user in case they forgot to pay, offer a > quick way to get caught up and be a tad annoying until paid. > > I tried this experiment on my home connection: > > 0 X chain=dstnat action=dst-nat to-addresses=1.2.3.4 to-ports=80 > protocol=tcp src-address=0.0.0.0/0 dst-address=!1.2.3.4 dst-port=80 > nth=5,1 > > Really did not work as planned. Occasionally I would get the page at the > 1.2.3.4 server but most of the time I would get broken links and partially > displayed pages? > > John Buwa > Michiana Wireless > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > ---- > WISPA Wants You! 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