Public Wirless Equipment Pre-Prepped
The routers and antennas are already here, checked, flashed and ready to go. They are running DD-WRT V24 RC1 (Release Candidate 1) Standard. DD-WRT is based on OpenWRT, the firmware that's in use on our prototype router at East Tawas. The difference is that DD-WRT is far simpler to setup and includes all the software required to run as a WifiDog access point.
This week, we will be speaking to Merit to finish the T1 installations and as each T1 is installed, a public wireless access point will be installed and available for immediate use. To ensure that validation e-mails are not flagged as spam, I'm going to have our domain name registered with the IP address of the server. That way, companies like AOL can do a reverse DNS and get a domain name.
The newer server (which also runs our content filtering and caching solution) already has a running WifiDog authentication server and, except for SSL and Google Maps, is ready for use. All current account and use data will be transferred from the old server to the new one so, for those with validated accounts, there will be no need to re-register. Those that had created accounts but did not validate them will be cleaned out.
You can find our current Internet and Wireless Guidelines on our wiki in the Policies section.
This week, we will be speaking to Merit to finish the T1 installations and as each T1 is installed, a public wireless access point will be installed and available for immediate use. To ensure that validation e-mails are not flagged as spam, I'm going to have our domain name registered with the IP address of the server. That way, companies like AOL can do a reverse DNS and get a domain name.
The newer server (which also runs our content filtering and caching solution) already has a running WifiDog authentication server and, except for SSL and Google Maps, is ready for use. All current account and use data will be transferred from the old server to the new one so, for those with validated accounts, there will be no need to re-register. Those that had created accounts but did not validate them will be cleaned out.
You can find our current Internet and Wireless Guidelines on our wiki in the Policies section.
posted by Technology Coordinator at 1:33 PM
2 Comments:
how many hotspots are you deploying?
good luck. i've enjoyed following this.
We currently have one hotspot in operation at our East Tawas branch/Administrative Headquarters. Another seven will be deployed at our other seven branch libraries, bringing the total to eight--covering our district.
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