sHOW DO I DO THIS!!!!!

[netwokingrockz]

Hey everyone. I was at a holiday Inn that had network hookups in all the rooms for T3 access. When i plugged my laptop in, the first page I saw was the holiday in page (i Have anandtech as my default) but after the holiday inn page loaded I could go to other sites as usual. I want to set the up, anyone have an Idea of how??

Please LMK
thanks
mike

 

[Ladi]

I would hazard a guess that Holiday Inn themselves would be the best people to tell you. Possibly, your connection may need to be activated at the front desk or you need to set up a proxy server. Again...talking to the front desk is probably the best place to find out about a particular location's network; this holds true for most specific network questions since unless someone here has happened to have been at or worked at the place you are talking about, it's nearly impossible to say with certainty how it should work.

~Ladi

 

[bex0rs]

It's possible that their router was set to return an arbitrary page upon your first request to an Internet web page. This is how the Sonicwall Firewalls w/ the Anti-virus plugin work. You must have the client sofware installed or else you will not be able to access the internet. Any site you try to go to will result in will a Sonicwall warning message. I can't really think of an easy way to set this up, and it would kind of depend on the hardware you have.

~bex0rs

 

[bex0rs]

I was just wondering...

I'd guess that not many people would be able to take advantage of the full bandwidth that a t3 has to offer. If you could pay for the cheapest room at the holiday inn every night and have some sort of server there, would it come out cheaper than the actual cost of a t3 (provided that is what they really have)?

Just a thought, heh

~bex0rs

 

[cavingjan]

The hotels that I have stayed in with this service tack on another fee on top of it. I think the holiday in in Kansas City wanted another $20 a night for access to this.
Besides do you want to trust a server to the housekeeping staff?

 

[Akash]

if someone really knows would you please let me know beucase we are bulding a hotel with internet access in all rooms and this would be a nice feature to have.. and this is a free service by the way its a bestwestern

 

[bex0rs]

I know exactly nothing about what I am about to say, but here I go....

What you need to do is have some sort of "filter" between the clients (coming from the hotel rooms) and their connection to the internet. This filter can be in the form of a computer or some sort of router but basically what it will need to do is monitor all outbound internet web page requests (ie. all requests to a remote host's tcp port 80). The idea is to have the client's first request for an arbitrary internet web page not actually return the web page, but instead your own custom page. On the client end, their web browser would not know that the page being returned what was not actually what was requested, for example, google.com or anandtech.com. Now once that client IP has been given the initial "home page," you'd need to set some sort of flag so that their web requests can pass through your filter and access web pages normally. You could also set it up so that after a cetain amount of time, say 3 hours, this flag would expire and they would once again have to go through the filter. Also, DHCP would be highly reccommended to simply setup on the client end.

I can't really give any specifics, mainly because I don't know exactly how all this works, but that is the general idea of what needs to happen. Perhaps someone else out there can fill in the specifics.

~bex0rs


Edit: fixed a confusing sentence