Offer Free WiFi To Customers

greyteam1959

googler wrote: »

If you want to allow access to only current customers, change password each day and only issue password to customers that day.

Prevents customers from previous visits coming back and piggybacking outside your premises without buying anything.

Yes that's what I will be doing !!!

Deru

You should get a business grade access point with features such as bandwidth management (stops some from hogging all bandwidth and slowing everyone else down), basic web filtering (block !!!!!!, illegal sites, etc) and Guest Network feature. That will stop people from accessing files, machines, etc on your network.

Guest network will have a separate password, if any. You can of course, change the password every so often. If cost is too much, a lot of Belkin Wireless N routers offer a Guest network feature but maybe not the other features. Depending on the size of the premises, I doubt many would use your network for dodgy activities but you never know. Bandwidth hogging is another thing. You never know when someone might pop in with a laptop running a Torrent client with unfinished downloads. Maybe BT will throttle these, then you won't have a problem.

paddyrg

googler wrote: »

... But only BT FON users will be able to use it.

Actually, no

http://corp.fon.com/wifi-for-your-business

Contact Fon and they have 'in a box' solutions for coffee shops and the like

onzey

mervyn11 wrote: »

Trying to set this wifi access up but when somebody attempts to connect to it instead of just asking for a password it asks for a username AND a password.
What am I doing wrong ????

So is it working now?

greyteam1959

Yes my own wifi access is working.
Might have to look into my BT Hub & see if it has a 'guest' access setting.