Almost always when we've set up wifi at conferences, we've ended up turning off the wifidog gateway, and just running in 'open' mode. Either it's because use was heavy and the auth server was responding slowly (we have a modest machine), or people got confused by the captive portal, or the bandwidth demand was greater than the venue's Internet connection could support, so we turned off the portal just to reduce the hassle for users. <br>
<br>This, too, is using 'guest' mode -- we wouldn't ask users to create an account, considering that they're likely just one-time users.<br><br>I think there are some amazing opportunities to use portal pages at conferences for social media experiments, but we still have a lot of work to do there...<br>
<br>Gabe<br>(Wireless Toronto)<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Genevieve Bastien <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gbastien@versatic.net">gbastien@versatic.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
Ile sans fil is thinking of offering wireless internet access at<br>
conferences and conventions where there can be as much as thousands of<br>
people wanting to connect.<br>
<br>
Does anyone have experience with that kind of (wifidog) setting, with<br>
heavy load usage? We'd like to hear about it. What kind of<br>
configuration did you use? Small router gateway or routing PC? How did<br>
wifidog do? What were the problems encountered? etc<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
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Genevičve Bastien<br>
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