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Re: [LUG] Hotel Logging in Management

 

On 12 June 2013 17:25,  <lug@xxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a B&B and plenty of people ask if we have free Wi-Fi but no-one
> complains about having to enter a password because they are used to
> doing it at home (unless they are total idiots). It really isn't a big
> deal.
> In a 50 room business you will get people hogging the bandwidth and
> doing things they shouldn't be doing most weeks so you need to manage
> connection speed and at least make people think you can check-up on
> them even if the reality is somewhat different.

I would argue in either case a password is unnecessary. You just need
to manage the connection.

However the solutions for managing a connection, i.e. kicking abusive
users MAC address off the network aren't great. At least the ones I've
seen.

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