[Sussex] internet cafe

[Colin Tuckley]

Gareth Ablett wrote:

> After having a few days off from work I get back to be told I'm gonna meet wit someone regarding putting internet in his café (wireless) for customers to use.
> 
> I've not used wireless before although setting up shouldn't be too much of a problem, what I don't have a clue about is will it just need a router and some setting up then pretty simple for customers to use or is it a case of needing a server and software.
> 
> I'm guessing that they will want there own machine to look at the internet themselves and for any setup I do, but they are pretty tight for space so looking for advice.

They :will: need a portal of some sort to protect themselves when they get
the inevitable shout from their ISP about being a source of spam/whatever.

Take a look at Mesh AP (via Google) it's an open source portal. The Brighton
Pier-to-Pier people use it I believe, the person to talk to would be Dave
Phelan (sp?) he's active on the Brighton LUG mailing list so I suggest a
similar message there.

Colin

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