Splash Screen at Coffee Shop

Sep 22, 2005 3 Replies

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matthew.beckwith 20 years ago

At some public places with free wireless internet, you get a splash screen that appears when you first bring up your Internet browser. This screen at Panera, for example, welcomes you to the shop, and suggests that you not take up 2 tables during busy hours, etc.

I would like to put up a splash screen at my place of business where I have free wireless Internet. My Internet is just through a local cable provider. How do I set it up to have a splash screen when users first log on?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Steve Stottlemyer

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Jeff Liebermann 20 years ago

It depends on the wireless router you're using or whether you have a local server available. Basically, the router redirects all port 80 (http) connections to a local web page until some action is performed. There are a bunch of commerical and free implimentations of hot spot software to impliment a captive portal[1]. Most are designed for the Linksys WRT54G and are based on NoCat. In this case, look at "NoCat Splash".

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OpenWRT has a build which includes NoCat Splash but the link appears to be dead:

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we need to know what hardware you have in order to suggest a more specific implimentation.

[1] Firefox just ate my bookmarks file and I have to dig a backup out from my pile of cd's that fell over last night. There are days like this. Sorry, no links right now.

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dold 20 years ago

There are some solutions that you cobble together, and there are some packages that you can buy ready to go. Some include hardware, some expect you to add their software to existing hardware.

Three thoughts:

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Eric 20 years ago

ZoneCD

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Free and open source.

Works great. I use it myself.

Cheers Eric

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