<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello ...<br><br></div>I'm not certain I have understood Rob Bowman's problem completely -- but his context seems familiar. I run several 'silver surfer' projects around Hackney and the City of London. I carry a bag of Android tablets to community centres and other places where older people are learning about digital technology for the first time. Some of those places (including streets and parks) have no wifi or no Internet connection at all. So I also carry a 4G mobile wifi hotspot. Much of the time I want to demonstrate online music, video, photos and ebooks -- but if my learners download those files from the Internet, the entire 4G monthly plan would be used up in a single session. It would also be very slow.<br><br></div>My solution -- which is nothing to do with Linux -- is this gadget: Mobilelite G2 ( <a href="http://www.kingston.com/en/wireless/wireless_readers#mlwg2">http://www.kingston.com/en/wireless/wireless_readers#mlwg2</a> ). I can load up context-specific SD cards or flash drives for each project, then the gadget acts as a short-range private password-protected network, wherever we are. It's not a perfect solution (the gadget supports a maximum 8 concurrent connections, and the range of supported filetypes is narrow), but it's cheap.<br><div><div><br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Rob Bowman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob@artangel.org.uk" target="_blank">rob@artangel.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="color:rgb(102,0,0)">If anyone can suggest anyone who may be able to help, or a good place to find them, I’d be hugely grateful.<br></span>
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I am looking for someone to help me get an internet access point setup, in a domestic setting, which would<br>
effectively host a hotspot login.<br></span>
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Having researched it (from scratch, with no knowledge) I understand now that a possible solution is to get a<br>
router set up running OpenWRT in order to use a commercial (pay-per-use) service. Because of lack of<br>
connectivity locally the router needs to reach the internet via a 3G dongle, preferably the one we have<br>
on contract from Three (Huawei E3550). I’m imagining that I may need to get a new router with a usb port to<br>
plug it into.<br></span>
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Actually achieving the setup is beyond my skills. I work in the arts for a charity making art projects<br>
and exhibitions. Getting this working will enable us to allow visitors to access sound files (the artwork)<br>
on mobile devices, having first hit a login page for the hotspot we create.<br></span>
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I want to record here that I did begin to try! I learnt to get OpenWrt onto a router that I had, before I hit<br>
the wall of not being able to get it to connect to the internet using the LuCI interface and being scared off<br>
by command line configurations...</span></div></blockquote><div><br><br></div><div>Cheers :-)<br><br></div><div> </div></div>
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