The best ISP for internet cafe

[oscarlets]

Good Afternoon everyone
I have a residential flats to rent for 50 families,I want to introduce access to the internet via Wi-Fi connection,I need to know who are the best service provider for business like this? Like selling minutes or data to tenants,e.g 30 mins access for R15 and restricting downloads and uploads of anything over 2MB!

Who can I approach for service like this? what are your recommendations?

Thank you in advance.

Regards
Oscar.

 

[agentrfr]

Rather get a big pipe (4 bonded 10 meg ADSL lines or since you are in joburg, give Neotel Fibre a call), get them low retention ratios (gold ADSL accounts or better from Openweb) and have a squid server do the network managing.

Don't bother trying to limit speeds individually, with a dedicated server you can manage bandwidth on the fly so that as much can be used at one time as possible. QoS on the squid server will work good for this.

Rather than charge them only 15 minutes at a time or so, charge them for a month and add their MAC address to the server to allow a connection. That way they will be happier they can use the whole month, you get cash that you can predict next month's income with and there is less admin work to be done.

In any event, you'll need a professional network engineer to set it up. A mate of mine's dad does it for a living, so you can PM me and I will ask him if he can help you out.

 

[Paul Hjul]

I would be very cautious about delivering this sort of service yourself because of the fact that you would be conducting commercial reselling.

Always On
and
Skyrove

are the two companies that come to mind, but I also think MWeb and talking directly to IS might also make sense.

 

[oscarlets]

Thank you very much guys for your invaluable suggestion,I will give your suggestion a try and see how it goes @agentrfr I will hala back when all is in place,thank you very much again

 

[froot]

I would be very cautious about delivering this sort of service yourself because of the fact that you would be conducting commercial reselling.

Always On
and
Skyrove

are the two companies that come to mind, but I also think MWeb and talking directly to IS might also make sense.

This. You aren't allowed to resell [most of] the accounts that we as home users subscribe to. Most of the "flat internet" setups make use of IS though.