McDonald’s Corp. will soon start offering free wireless Internet access at its U.S. restaurants as part of the fast-food chain’s ongoing transformation from its hamburger roots into a hang-out destination.
Starting in mid-January, McDonald’s will lift a $2.95 fee that it had charged customers for two hours of wireless Internet access, available at about 11,000 of [...]
I have it installed and have made calls from within wifi spots. Are these totally free no matter who i call?
I am looking into buying an iPod Touch which can use internet, but I don’t want to pay for using wifi. Is there any way to know if they will charge you first and how much it would be?
CoovaAP Firmware
CoovaAP is an OpenWRT-based firmware designed especially for HotSpots. It comes with the CoovaChilli access controller built-in and makes it easily configurable.
Key Features
Open-source, based on OpenWrt
Advanced Web-based Configuration
Easy HotSpot Configuration & Status
CoovaChilli Access Controller
Embedded Captive Portal
Facebook HotSpot Captive Portal
Integrated CoovaChilli with WPA
OpenID Authentication
Centralized CoovaChilli Configuration
WiFiDog Access Controller
PPTP VPN Client and Server
OpenVPN [...]
LiveCD
ZoneCD Gateway http://www.publicip.net/ with NoCat installed – DennyHalim
lessnetworks with NoCat installed – DennyHalim
talweg Demo LiveCD
Open Source
talweg
It’s a http/https captive portal. It uses http redirections to enforce transmissions using a secured https channel. Using of IP/MAC address to maintain sessions are not necessary, the authentication is more secure.
NoCatAuth
Written in perl, supports Linux/iptables and OpenBSD/pfctl. GPLed. Supports [...]
Zeroshell is a small Linux distribution for servers and embedded devices aimed at providing the main network services a LAN requires. It is available in the form of Live CD or Compact Flash image and you can configure and administer it using your web browser. The main features of this Linux distribution for Network Appliances [...]
Wifidog was designed as a replacement to existing captive portal solutions which we felt didn’t fit the needs of next generation community groups. Specifically, developers wanted both personalized and community wide content for each hotspot, no pop ups, no client software and centralized management. Mainly as a replacement for portals currently using NoCat. [...]
ePoint HotSpot is a free, open source firmware for wireless routers based on OpenWRT with some ePointy extensions an ePoint-branded UI theme. It is distributed as a stand-alone flashable firmware-image, as a set of extension packages for OpenWRT, pre-installed on wireless routers and, of course, in source code.
It is aimed primarily at
catering businesses
hotels and [...]
EasyHotspot is an alternative solution for hotspot billing system. Its contain some particular open source software that bundled into a single package.
For most case EasyHotspot comes with ready to use configuration. You need less configuration to build an up and running hotspot. It will saves your time and energy.
EasyHotspot developed on the top of Xubuntu [...]
Consider that anybody who has wifi ready laptop can easily benefit from free internet access in a wifi hotspot, so who’s paying for the broadband distribution of FREE internet using wireless equipment?
