Commercial Router: charge per hour/usage?

[TheGizmo]

I was hoping someone could help me get off on the right foot.. heres the current situation, wireless internet access is needed at a hotel that I work at. Now I know how to network, access points, the antenna situation, etc... but I have a bit of a snag. There needs to be a way to give a person the network key or something along these lines for them to use the network for X ammt of hours and then the key will not work, while at the same time the key cannot be shared so they cannot tell their friend in the next room what the key is. So basically, I am looking for some sort of router that I can lease connectivity for said ammount of hours without the key to be shared so that we can charge clientel in the corrent manner. I'm not sure which kind of routers support this so I was hoping someone did. 802.11b should be fine. Thanks in advance!

 

[Tazanator]

look up linux hotspot.

 

[Rogue]

You would probably want to use some type of RADIUS authentication with a user database of some kind.

 

[dphantom]

Nomadix can do that and Cisco has a product too Secure Access Controller) I think. Here's a link to another open source product.

Zone CD


I'm sure there are others too.

 

[nweaver]

radius, with LEAP authentication, or EAP-TLS (might need to give supported cards out for this one). You could then expire the user certificate after X period of time.

 

[LBmtb]

This would work http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33&scid=35&prid=565