How to start a WIFI hotspot / WISP thingy? lol

[paul5186]

I dont have any licenses... yea wrt's is not that bad, I have had my bad luck with a mikrotik router once before , so I HATE mikrotik routers, those that you access from winbox, pff

Mikrotik is probably the best and cheapest routers you can get. Winbox is great but most work is done by terminal. Definitely the usermanager will sort you out. Can limit bandwidth, time etc.

 

[Imminent]

dude, stop trying to be cool man, j#re man, f%@k

http://www.scoopdistribution.co.za/index.php?cPath=100_50

thx for your help and please go to the gym to get rid of all your testosterone hormones

my sentiments exactly hahaha

U should see him on his irc server, he is much worse xD

 

[daffy]

Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime

I could answer the same questions a million times, or I can put the answer on a website somewhere and point people to it.

Or I could encourage you to think for yourself and work it out. It may feel like hard work in the short-term, but in the long-term it'll teach you valuable skills, and you might even learn something.

 

[D-Boy]

LOL man, I have googled so f-ing much this couple of years on this stupid topic that Google is probably thinking they're under a DOS attack

 

[wetkit]

D-Boy, I hope you not supplying internet to your customers or charging them money for the service you provide, as that would be illegal to do without a VANS licence.

 

[D-Boy]

well I dont have a VANS lisence, and dont have the money for it,

"charging them money for the service you provide," hahaha man, ofcourse I charge them, I offer a good service, they have a guaranteed download speed to what package they picked out, and that goes for uncapped users also

 

[D-Boy]

a nice 2.4GHz 12dBi Vertical Omni Antenna on my side and they're all happy

 

[daffy]

*no comment*

 

[labratza]

you looking for trouble. if iccasa finds out what you are doing then you are in big trouble

 

[D-Boy]

put up your hands, who really does have a VANS license??

 

[daffy]

No-one, since they no longer exist.
They've been replaced with ECN and ECNS licenses.

There are about 600 VANS that were converted to the new licenses...

 

[labratza]

yeah but alot of people(me been one of them) still know it as a vans licence..... was at the iccasa talk last year with the ecn and ecns licences but still better to get a licence because if you get caught there is huge trouble

 

[D-Boy]

to get a license, is it a huge mission and expensive?

 

[labratza]

yeah it is but it is cheaper to get the licence than to get the fine and have all your equipment taken away

 

[D-Boy]

in the long run, is it even worth it having to go thru all the trouble just to be a stupid WISP ??

 

[labratza]

yeah that is also true as you will more than likely wait a good couple of months for the licemce

 

[D-Boy]

and price wise, how much for that license vs. the profit you make? hmm

 

[labratza]

that is also true think it will take a good 4 years if you are busy to make your money back

 

[daffy]

Legal vs Illegal.

What would your customers think if they knew their service could get interrupted at any time and never return because you're operating illegally?
They'd probably leave you.

Illegal fly-by-night WISPs give the rest of the Industry a bad name.

 

[D-Boy]

Daffy, where the fack must I get the money for a license if I barely making enough to have more allowance money p/m, and I think probably most WISP are running illegal, and why the hell must this stuff be relegated, I dont see what harm can a couple of wifi antennas do, with internet embedded into them, its seems our independent WISP m*ffies always end up sucking on the wrong one