Show HN: Wifis.org - making WiFi networks 'social'

Re:Show HN: Wifis.org - making WiFi networks 'social' by nvr219 on Monday December 17, 2012 @02:55PM (#4934007)

What I would do in this case is set up a eula that they need to accept in order to use the wifi. Even consumer-level routers can do this, if not out of the box than with Tomato/DD-WRT

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Re:Show HN: Wifis.org - making WiFi networks 'social' by andrewcooke on Monday December 17, 2012 @02:59PM (#4934032)

thanks, that's a good idea. the historical accident of how things ended up connected as they are means it's non-trivial to do right now. but i guess i should have it as a long-term goal.

[edit: i do understand what you mean; but currently this is implemented just as a wifi endpoint (no router - just wifi) on an internal network and some iptables rules.]

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Re:Show HN: Wifis.org - making WiFi networks 'social' by mahmud on Monday December 17, 2012 @03:44PM (#4934253)

Hotels have that already. Drop all traffic except web, then route that to an authentication or EULA page, set cookie, etc.

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Re:Show HN: Wifis.org - making WiFi networks 'social' by nvr219 on Monday December 17, 2012 @03:27PM (#4934160)

Here is a video tutorial (not mine): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1Dpyin-99M

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