Wi-Fi Hotspots

Wi-Fi Hot spots deliver high-speed wireless Internet access to patrons with Wi-Fi enabled laptops, desktops, or PDAs, which allows the retail business operator or franchisee to attract new customers. Hot spots improve customer loyalty, generate an additional revenue stream, and give retail locations the added benefit of high-speed, secure Internet access for its own business use.

Our Private Label Hot Spot solution is a complete hot spot solution designed for deployment by LakeCityWebs for franchise operators, RV Parks, and large & small branded retail chains. The entire hot spot system is easily and quickly customized to promote your corporate branding or retail service strategy. Our Private Label solution is the right choice for your business because it:

• Offers superior branding opportunities
• Provides flexibility in hot spot design and promotion
• Is easy to implement, easy to manage, and easy for end-user customers to use
• Is fully supported by LakeCityWebs

 Private Label Hot Spot consists of these key elements:

• Wi-Fi Gateways, which offer in a single device: broadband access, Wi-Fi authentication, routing, firewall security, and best-in-class wireless coverage using wireless technology
• Hot Spot Manager for Wi-Fi authentication, and control.
• Family-Friendly Surfing enabled by URL filtering on your servers and enforced at the Wi-Fi gateway.
• Content Filtering Routers are also available for automated family friendly surfing.
• Complete private-labeled venue marketing materials, such as window decals and signage
• Hot Spot Income — custom eCommerce add-on options tailored to your retail strategy (Optional, for selling Hot Spot Access)

Please Contact Us for a FREE evaluation and time estimate.

Lake City Webs is an Authorized FirstSpot® v5 Silver Partner, We deliver, install, customize, and support all First spot installations purchased from us!

In development since 2002, FirstSpot® is a Windows-based Wi-Fi hotspot management software (sometimes also known as hotspot software, hotspot access controller or wireless gateway) designed to track and secure your Wi-Fi Hotspots or visitor-based networks in a centralized way. Based on captive portal technology, FirstSpot® lets your hotspot users to login simply by a web browser.

FirstSpot® is all about ease-of-use and giving you unprecedented control on your hotspots. Compare to other hotspot management offerings, FirstSpot® Windows-based architecture and server-based pricing gives you the most flexibility in structuring your hotspot access plan. Instead of just offering plain Wi-Fi access, building Wi-Fi Hotspots quickly becomes an important corporate image exercise.

FirstSpot® is the number one Windows-based hotspot software in the world and has been deployed in more than 45 countries worldwide. Our customers come from a variety of industry segments including hotels, coffee shops, ISPs, Internet cafes, libraries, legal firms, governments, militaries, and more.

Features highlight

You will find these hotspot-oriented features come alive on your Windows platform:

End-user Friendly

• Web-based login, no extra client required

• Self sign-up accounts - CAPTCHA checking, configurable redirect option and initial credits using Plan (new!)

• Intelligent InfoBox showing users information (e.g. access minutes remaining, logout button, announcement - useful for sending promotion (new!), time left reminder (new!) )

• Configurable Instant Keywords™ support (e.g. typing "logout" in the browser address bar to bring up the logout window)

• SMTP roaming - client PC does not have to change Outlook SMTP setting to send email

• Universal clients support - Windows 2000/XP/Vista (IE and Firefox), Pocket PC, MAC, and device without browser (via Passive Login) (new!)

Hotspot Network Management

• Different Authentication Modes - using username & password, anonymously (i.e. simply click okay inside the welcome portal to start surfing), Multiple Logins (through Shared Secret) and RADIUS support

• Username can bind to the first login client MAC address (new!)

• Use MAC as username - mode of login that users only need to enter password. Also support passive login that users don't need to enter anything at all (e.g. useful for IP phone or NDS/PSP)

• Bandwidth throttling - applying limits on bandwidth consumption globally or down to per-user level to stop network abuse

• Client pass-through - allowing devices with certain MAC/IP addresses to pass-through without login

• Client Isolation - prevent clients PC from seeing one and other in My Network Places

• IP Block List - Block list which will block IP address range (useful for blocking Intranet)

• Port Filtering - allows administrator to enable limited application access (e.g. web only)

• Client Black List - ability to block offending client PC (new!)

For a Profitable Hotspot

• Versatile tracking models including :

i) access minutes (i.e. airtime credit) - e.g. coffee shop

ii) hour-pass/day-pass (i.e. suspend at a specific date and time) - e.g. hotel (match the guest check-out time)

iii) Recurring (new!) (e.g. every Mon/Wed at 7-9pm) - e.g. Internet cafe package, corporate environment

iv) Restricted Account (new!) (when airtime credit or quota is used up, instead of suspending the account, user can still have access to the Internet but with Bandwidth Throttling set to global setting) - e.g. slower free access with full performance paid package, Municipal Wi-Fi, airports

• Data Transfer tracking and Quota System - useful in countries that don't have unlimited Internet access

• Prepaid card printout through the one-click user creation QuickAdd feature or Bulk Accounts creation - e.g. coffee shop can give out prepaid card once customers make a certain amount of purchase (new!)

• Credit card support with full PayPal, WorldPay, Authorize.net and Google Checkout (new!) integration - e.g. self-service Internet cafe, Internet kiosk

• Hotspot Printing - support of Internet Printing service PrinterOn for on site Hotspot printing - e.g. premium service for Internet cafe

• Comprehensive usage log and reporting for billing - including time, duration, data transfer, client MAC/IP addresses of client machines, and URL tracking

Unbeatable Customizability

• One-click login page customization - options to change (or randomize (new!), useful for advertisement) the graphics and text in the standard login page

• Different login pages for different network segments

• Dynamic Multiple Languages Support - FirstSpot will present appropriate language to the end-users based on client settings

Other Features

• Exception free web site support (can handle wildcard sub-domain name format e.g. *.google.com) - e.g. shopping mall can make the tenants' web site free while restricting other normal surfing

• NAT with Real IP for client PC (e.g. premium package for hotel or Internet cafe) and Port Forwarding support (new!)

• Failover - setup a second FirstSpot server for backup in case the first one fails (new!)

• QoS - ensure certain applications (e.g. VoIP) to get guaranteed bandwidth

• Operator accounts - administrator can define operator accounts with different access levels

• Option to remove inactive user accounts automatically (new!)

Please Contact Us for a FREE evaluation and time estimate.

*HotSpot Fees Not provided by LakeCityWebs.com under any circumstances, all hotspot fees are paid to LakeCityWebs.com on a monthly or annual basis if the technology is not purchased outright. Additional equipment and wiring may be needed in your particular instance and is not included, Please Contact Us for an evaluation of your needs.