If any of you remember Community Wi-Fi, a project we started about six months ago, you'll notice that it no longer exists on our website or as part of the things we do. We were wrong, it didn't work.
Community Wi-Fi was there to fill a gap between our enterprise Wi-Fi Hotspot offerings and the budget boxes you buy from Dixons that sit under so many shop counters.
We used off-the-shelf kit and an open source captive portal to block access. It was a DIY solution for those that understood how to fiddle with Wi-Fi boxes. In fact, it's the same system that many of our competitors use for their commercial hotspots.
Why did we stop the project? No-one wanted it, it was as simple as that. We're not unhappy though, we didn't want to sell cheap plastic boxes or a service that wasn't supported or easy to manage. We also learned a lot about Wi-Fi and our competition. There's a reason in this world of free internet and open source software that commercial companies exist. They might cost a little more, but do you care about a few pounds if it means you have lots of cheerful customers banging on your door?
You should be pleased therefore that we now only do our Supafly Wi-Fi Hotspots and don't sell any cheap and nasty plastic boxes! And we massage them before sending them out to make sure they're happy.
If you want a cheap and nasty box in your business, google "WiFi Hotspot Company". Ignore the PolkaSpots Supafly Website and call one of the other companies. There's tonnes of them out there.
All the best,
Burt
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