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Originally Posted by TarHeelV
Cost of the appliance, roughly $2K. Monthly maintenance fee, $69.95. Install is free. End User Support via toll free (or local), $159.00 a month for unlimited calls. All marketing material (tent cards, door sticker, instruction cards (business card size), buttons for staff, etc) is provided as well.
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The thing is, I could hack nocat onto a Linksys WRT54G for a fraction of this price, and still perform any function yours could.
You seem to be charging a lot of money for a cheap PC running linux.
Let's think about this, you want to charge $2000 and $70 a month so a company can provide free internet? How on earth does the company benefit at all? You're charging for the most expensive splash screen in the world! Also, how do you plan justifying you "maintanence fee"? What exactly will that involve?
If people wanted to provide free internet, they'll just buy a $30 AP and put a sign up.
Then, if it breaks, I haven't spent $70 a month "maintaining" it. With this fortune saved, I can just buy another AP. Hell! I could buy two a month for the price you're charging! Sure, linksys customer care is crap, but, their stuff rarely breaks and is cheap enough to replace if it does.
Sorry dude, the maths is against you.