Thursday, October 9, 2014

WiFiDog a replacement to Captive portal

WiFiDog a replacement to Captive portal

The Wifidog project is a complete and embeddable captive portal solution for those who wish to operate a open hotspot or network of hotspots while preventing abuse of their Internet connection.

Wifidog is designed as a replacement to existing captive portal solutions. It’s come with wide content for each hotspot, no pop ups, no client software and centralized management.

Feature includes:

  • Captive portal which lets hotspot owners communicate with their users.
  • Wifidog gateway is designed for Linux server and embedded Linux device like Linksys WRT54G, OpenWRT .
  • Users are able to create a working account directly from any hotspot. New users sign on from any hotspot, create their account and are granted access for 15 minutes to confirm an email. If they don't, they are disconnected and have to sign up again.
  • Reports and Statistics including:
                 10 highest bandwidth consumers
                 10 most frequent users
                 10 most mobile users
                 Content display and click through report
                 Graph on network use (per hour, weekday and month)
                 Individual user report, most popular nodes (by visit)
                 Network status information
                 Node status information
                 Registration log
                 User registration report
Download and installation instruction available at http://dev.wifidog.org/