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/

Turn your old wireless Router into Advanced Firewall-Router using Tomato Firmware

If you are looking cheap advance firewall for your Home or Small office just install Tomato firmware in your old   Linksys' WRT54G/GL/GS, Buffalo WHR-G54S/WHR-HP-G54  and many supported wireless router. And get advance feature like, Bandwidh usage , Advance QOS, Wireless WDS, Limits P2P usage and many more advance feature using GUI base control.

Wireless Mode feature:

• Access point (AP)
• Wireless client station (STA)
• Wireless Ethernet (WET) bridge
• Wireless distribution system (WDS also known as wireless bridging)
• Simultaneous AP and WDS (also known as wireless repeating).

Basic Setup:

Download  it from source forge website or from polarcloud.com


 See Also:

OpenWRT for Wifi Hotspot with Captive portal

OpenWrt is described as a Linux distribution for embedded devices.

OpenWRT for Wifi Hotspot with Captive portal

OpenWrt is described as a Linux distribution for embedded devices.

Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developer, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.

OpenWRT can be install in many Old wifi router, It will make your home wifi router/ access point to full functional  high end router or Wifi hotspot with Captive portal with addons like wifiDog.addons.

Now a days many router come with OpneWRT or DD-WRT firmware.

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Turn your old wireless Router into Advanced Firewall-Router using Tomato Firmware

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If you are looking cheap advance firewall for your Home or Small office.