Best Hotspot software

We wish to make a hotspot whats the best software to use as a hotspot and repeater?

Have looked at Mikrotek. Pref to see what everyobe else uses....

I use Mikrotik with an external Radius server and am very happy with it...

Can you give us a idea of how you have set up a hotspot. I can set it up but people have trouble loggin into the repeater hence why we looked at differnet software before we buy.

At present we are using 5.8ghz gear to provide the backhauls and zyxel 2.4 equipment at the hotspot end. I have just ordered some outdoor stuff to try and do the same sort of thing within housing estates.

Technically its a completely bridged network, with the mirotik dishing out IP's to anything that asks for one. Because we run multiple networks over the same kit we are using dhcp pools, one for authd clients and one for non authd. We then have a FreeRadius server that handles the account side of things.

Its working well except for the fact that I can't get an error to appear when someones account runs out of time.

btw, I may be up in CHC in the next few months to setup some hotspots like this and train up a couple of guys to do them ... let me know if your interested in coming along....

Proxim has a pretty good hotspot setup.

http://www.proxim.com/products/wifi/ap/ap700/index.html

Michael