D-Link to offer a preconfigured hot spot access point: The Airspot DSA-3100 Public/Private Gateway has a suggested price of $599, for which you get captive portal/gateway page, up to 250 local accounts, authentication pass-through for back-end 802.1X and other AAA, MAC filtering, and time/bandwidth limits and monitoring. It also has various firewall and attack monitoring options.
Configuration is handled through a Web-based interface, but it doesn't mention whether it's an encrypted, SSL/TLS Web server.
This looks like a nice product but, you still need an access point to be wireless. And for the total cost, I think I would look to another company !!!
do you know what company could do something like this? I am looking for a public/private hotspot solution for myself. I have a workspace, and a cafe that i would like to use it for. I want to let the workers have 24/7 access, but charge public people when they come in bot their laptops, and also for 2 of my own computers they could use on a time limit. Any ideas?