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Ask HN: Wi-Fi setup for coworking space

by feistypharit on 1/5/22, 3:26 PM with 3 comments

My sister is looking to setup a small coworking space. I told her I’d help with internet setup.

In thinking about it, I initially thought wpa2-enterprise and radius. However, then I started to think about users, payments, etc. I poked around a bit for solutions and didn’t find much. Are there no open source offerings around this problem of making it easy to manage enterprise WiFi?

Thanks!

  • by Nextgrid on 1/5/22, 3:35 PM

    WPA2-Enterprise and EAP is the right way to go about it if people have profiles attached to them (a members club essentially).

    For one-off access, EAP is pretty terrible as you'd have to give them a new username/password every time and they have to enter it.

  • by msh on 1/5/22, 6:19 PM

    Its not open source, but ubiquity have this build in to their wifi management platform.