How To Choose The Right Wifi Gator Product For Your Business

There are two parts to a wifi network billing system. The first part is the wifi network itself. We supply you with a broad range of compatible solutions for hardware and firmware to build the network. Purchase the wireless routers from the distributor of your choice and flash it with our firmware and the wifi network will be ready to communicate with the other part of the billing system.

The second part of a wifi network billing system is the authentication / billing server. This is a powerful PC that can be hosted by you or hosted by us in our commercial colocation facility. The authentication server is the main brain behind the entire system. It monitors and controls all of the wireless equipment in the field and keeps track of what parts of your networks are up or down at any given time, and it also monitors and controls the end users of the wifi network. The authentication server is what delivers the custom landing pages to the end user with offerings of your internet access according to the pricing plans and bandwidth allocations you setup in your hotspot control panel.

Hosted Single Hotspot Account:
Wifi Gator Authentication and Billing Servers come in several pricing and hosting models in order to meet the needs of all sizes and types of wireless networking businesses. If you only have one location, a Hosted Single Hotspot Account might be all you need to conduct your business. A single Hotspot Account can run unlimited numbers of routers on it. A Hosted Single Hotspot Account is one landing page and all of the necessary tools in your control panel that you will need to manage that one hotspot and all of its users. For more information on the Wifi Gator Single Hotspot Account, Click Here.

Hosted 10-Hotspot Account:
If you have more than one location, but are not big enough to justify a full server, then you might be well advised to choose one of our Hosted 10-Hotspot Server Accounts. The 10-Hotspot Account is the same as the Single Hotspot Account, but as the name implies, you get 10 hotspot landing page control panels and you can set each one up differently for separate locations and pricing plans and such, and you can monitor all of the routers for each one individually. You can also control limited access by other administrators to these hotspots while you keep global control over the entire group of hotspots.

Hosted Full Wifi Gator MX Server:
If you have a good sized wifi network or are planning to build one and you need to deploy unlimited numbers of hotspots and wifi networks, and you want to control every aspect of the system and have a global overview and control of that system, then a full Wifi Gator MX Hosted VPS Server might be the best bet for you. The full servers come with root access to the file system and the code is open to where you can modify it to suit yoru needs and follow along with the other cool modifications the guys are doing with their servers in the forum and such. With root access to the full server, the business models are only limited by your imagination as far as what you can do with these servers. This is a full blown commercial server with all of the computing power and software you will need to run your business. For more information about the Wifi Gator MX Hosted VPS Server, Click Here.

Wifi Gator MX Pro Install CD: ( This is for running Wifi Gator MX in your own data center )
If you would like to install the Wifi Gator MX software on your own pc and dedicate it to be your own in-house billing and network management server, then we offer a very powerful and cost effective solution in the Wifi Gator MX Pro Edition Install CD. This CD will install the full Operating System based on Ubuntu Linux onto your server pc along with the Wifi Gator Billing Program at the same time. For more information on the features contained in the Wifi Gator MX Pro Installation CD, Click Here.

Pro-Mesh Firmware Builder Account Included With The VPS and Download:
Each Wifi Gator Server Package listed above comes with prebuilt open-mesh firmwares that will allow both Atheros based routers and Broadcom / DD-WRT based routers to run with the system and be controlled by the same control panel, called a "dashboard". Some users have a need or desire to customize their firmware to contain their own logos and aim them at their own servers, since open-mesh or some other network management dashboard outside of your own server can go down and may reduce the reliability of your network. So we have included our firmware builder account to build a custom firmware preconfigured to aim at your own server and internal dashboard control panel for the wifi network, and this gives the system more control for the administrators and much more reliablility.