PolkaSpots Community Wireless Hotspots
The PolkaSpots Community WiFi Hotspot Solution is about to launch. Our low cost alternative to our Enterprise Platform, Community WiFi is designed for those that want the simplest and most affordable wireless Hotspot that’s free for their customers.
Unlike our Enterprise Platform (Free WiFi and Pre-paid WiFi found in the Hotspot Owner Section), Community WiFi uses off-the-shelf equipment and an Open Source Captive Portal Solution.
There’s no reason you shouldn’t try it yourself, but why would you? There are no monthly costs and the hardware is really cheap. In fact you can even bring your own hardware (BYOHW) and use our servers for the captive portal.
How? You buy a pre-configured router from the PolkaSpots Online Store. Plug it in to your broadband connection and within a minute, you’ll have a free WiFi Hotspot for your customers.
Your customers will find themselves with free WiFi when they visit you. All they do is sign-on to your network and, like our Enterprise Platform, they’ll be presented with a login screen (captive portal). The similarities stop here. To get online, all they need to do is enter their email address and register. They then have 20 minutes to check their email and activate their account. If they use a fake address, they get cut off after 20 minutes. Simple!
We’re not offering any support, management, branding, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements so if you need a little more assistance or are going to rely on this heavily, you need our Enterprise Solution, which is a little more expensive but is fully featured and guaranteed to last.
You can find out more about Community WiFi here.
Simon Morley @ May 31, 2009