topic Re: Hosted captive portal recommendations? in Unleashed

Hosted captive portal recommendations?

erin_mcclellen — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 08:59:25 GMT

Hi all,

There is a dizzying array of SaaS providers that provide some type of hosted radius/captive portal solution. Some are universal, some are vendor specific, some rely on flashing new firmware onto consumer devices...

Anyone here have any recommendations?

Re: Hosted captive portal recommendations?

monnat_systems — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 09:39:42 GMT

Hi

I am in India and here i have used one service which is compatible with Ruckus ZD, unleashed and Vscg solutions... they also have global customers.
Very supportive and problem solving team they have,,,

http://kloudyy.com/
email - team@kloudyy.com

then there is ironwifi too which does something similar but never used...

Re: Hosted captive portal recommendations?

erin_mcclellen — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 18:45:38 GMT

Thanks - I'll keep kloudyy in mind, but they look a little pricey. I just signed up for an ironwifi trial after posting that message last night, they look promising, but no specific mention of Ruckus in their setup guides.

Re: Hosted captive portal recommendations?

carsten_buchena — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 19:28:33 GMT

Hi,

We were using Cloud4Wi for a while which has a lot of features and is looking nice, but is also very expensive and was lacking a few pieces for a perfect user experience.

We have changed to Linkyfi from AV-Systems, which is a bit more basic in some areas, but significantly better in others (location analytics, reports, stability, registration workflow, ...). And: it's significantly cheaper.

https://www.avsystem.com/products/linkyfi/

Re: Hosted captive portal recommendations?

daniel_m — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 20:27:22 GMT

What’s wrong with the one built into Unleashed?

Re: Hosted captive portal recommendations?

dtsblake_588878 — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 10:47:29 GMT

Do any of the hosted portals solve the HSTS problem?

Re: Hosted captive portal recommendations?

alfred_smith_kv — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:04:38 GMT

I've been using Skyfii for our hosted captive portal. Competitive on price and with a sophisticated analytics and marketing platform attached, however you don't have to pay for those services unless wanted. www.skyfii.io

Re: Hosted captive portal recommendations?

erin_mcclellen — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:28:13 GMT

Regarding the "built-in", it's limited and doesn't allow the same data collection and reporting or page customization.

I've played around with IronWifi a lot at home on a single unleashed unit and it's worked very well. The free tier is more than enough to prove out the service, and their support has been fairly responsive. Trying it on a ZD-controlled network, seems to work fine as well.

The only downside is that they haven't put together a guide, so you have to sort of piece together guides for other gear.

Re: Hosted captive portal recommendations?

dominic_kirby_f — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:18:13 GMT

It sounds like you've been able to get IronWifi workign on an Unleashed network. I'm beating my head into a wall trying to figure this out. Would you be able to provide some insight as to how you setup the service?

Re: Hosted captive portal recommendations?

erin_mcclellen — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 04:37:54 GMT

Where are you stuck? You need to setup the radius auth and accounting servers, create a hotspot service, plug your captive portal URL in, select the radius servers you created and then assign the hotspot service to a new WLAN. At least that's the really short version... Are you on a ZD or Unleashed?

Also it wouldn't hurt to nag the IronWifi people - they have guides for other manufacturers, just not Ruckus. Let them support you, they're pretty helpful. I even sent them a bunch of screenshots, so they can at least see what the UI looks like.

Re: Hosted captive portal recommendations?

giovanni_bezich — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 18:11:24 GMT

If you want to implement your custom solution contact us at www.geenkle.com. We can discuss your solution and implement it for a specific hardware. Thank you.