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Install OpenWRT, Chillispot, FreeRadius Based Managed Hotspot(s) Including PayPal Payment Gateway If you have ever tried to implement one of the hotspot HowTos on this and other site, it might have dawned on you that this is not an easy feat to accomplish. Amazingly most solutions also leave out the most important part – how to get paid by the punters using the hotspot. Some will offer prepaid solution or access tickets that need to be printed, but this will require staff being involved on the premises. And in particular, once you want to offer a professional service and not just a ‘toy concept’ it gets tricky – and expensive. Just imagine all the servers you need to provide redundant and load balanced freeradius, mysql and web servers. It is generally not worth the effort and expense for just one hotspot – unless of course you are willing to accept outages, unhappy customers etc.
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I tried to get this to work but I couldn't get my router to take. After doing some searching I found a preprogrammed all in one hotspot/server/router/access point, it has a built in server so I don't have to redirect my customers to another site, everything is handled internally. The webpage is at http://checkbox.layerfour.net/ It's definitely worth checking out if you want an all-in-one solution and don't want to rely on a third party server or pay for your own.
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