RE: Hotspot-in-a-box

Thanks.  ChilliSpot appears to have no module/integration with a credit card billing gateway.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Vincent Hoffman [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 2:31 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Cc: 'Kevin Kargel'
Subject: Re: Hotspot-in-a-box

Something like http://www.chillispot.info/ ?

I havent played with it but have been meaning to.

Vince

On 11/5/09 18:02, Frank Bulk wrote:
>
> We actually do have an established relationship with a credit card
> processor for those who want to pay their telephone/CATV/internet bill
> online, as our billing system vendor has built the hooks to make that
> all happen.  So hopefully there is a hotspot product out there that
> can do the same thing.
>
>  
>
> Frank
>
>  
>
> *From:* Kevin Kargel [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Monday, May 11, 2009 11:52 AM
> *To:* [email protected]; [email protected]
> *Subject:* RE: Hotspot-in-a-box
>
>  
>
> Unless you already have a relationship with a credit card processor
> for online sales you are going to find that it would be cheaper for
> you to give the access away for free.  We had this idea once upon a
> time also, but the fees and requirements for making it work with the
> cc folks made it untenable for a small operation.  Now if you were
> talking about hundreds of hotspots with tens of thousands of dollars
> per day in sales it might be feasible. 
>
>  
>
> I do not know of an AAA box that uses PayPal.
>
>  
>
> Best regards,
> Kevin Kargel
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:* [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Frank Bulk
> *Sent:* Monday, May 11, 2009 11:46 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Hotspot-in-a-box
>
>  
>
> I’m looking for a “hotspot-in-a-box” solution that we can centrally
> host for multiple remote sites (mostly parks and public areas). 
>
>  
>
> I would like to be able to say I could take the traffic L2 back to
> this box so that it acts as the gateway, but if I had to L3 route all
> the traffic through it, I would be OK with that.  It would need to be
> able to work against our RADIUS server so that we could authenticate
> our own customers, but for those that are not our customers, we would
> like the option to bill them using credit card, Paypal, and the like. 
> I would prefer to buy as opposed to outsource the payment/portal side,
> but I’m open to that if there aren’t any other good options.
>
>  
>
> Again, I’m looking for comments from those who have operational
> experience, as my google-fu is as good anyone’s. =)
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
>  
>
> Frank
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>  
>


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