ATT Wifi Small Site

[markjw]

There are various other means to offer free wifi to your customers. I have setup http://www.hotspotsystem.com/ in the past with a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND V3 router (I flashed the firmware on the router with their version) and they give some nice features like forcing data gathering from your customers in order to enjoy free wifi, social login for customers, forced sharing to social media to get free wifi, editing look and branding of login page, etc., and you can integrate with other services like Mailchimp for email marketing from the data gathered. I also know @JTRTech put a hotspot together himself in the past, I’ll let him explain that I am sure he posted here but was in the Lounge.

Here is what I mentioned on this before…

Creating Hotspot

Possibly you could just use an off-the-shelf hotspot solution, like: http://www.hotspotsystem.com/ - (used personally, I have a reseller account with them) - you can buy pre-configured routers from them directly, or you can put their custom firmware on a number of supported routers. I’ve set this up on a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND V3 and it works fine. http://smb.purple.ai/ - (not used but researched before) - buy their small device that connects to your network, pretty much plug & play I believe.

It also depends if you will want to use the router AT&T supply, as you won’t be able to use that service with your own router. Some routers from providers can be pretty good, but some can be locked down to stupidity and very basic, and not cope well when multiple devices connect.