Monday, January 25, 2010

Café Skin Released

We released our new Café Skin. You can use this skin for your Hotspot Splash Page easily, just log in to the Control Center, click on Manage > Locations > click on name > Modify Hotspot Data > Splash Page Settings.

Now we have 10+1 Skins total, all available in 10 languages (excluding the oldest skin which is not supported anymore). The 12th Skin is coming soon which will be a Skin for Campgrounds.

Click here to view all available Skins.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Switch from KeZone Hotspot Software by Timico

I don't know how many people are out there who may want to change their KeZone hotspot software provided by Timico.

It's not an easy thing because there is only ssh access to the router so they have to use tftp to change the hotspot software.

The solution can be found in this forum thread: http://forums.linksysbycisco.com/linksys/board/message?board.id=Wireless_Routers&message.id=129417

Only people that were/are connected to KeZone/Timico are able to obtain the password as it's their broadband password.

Friday, January 1, 2010

Wi-Fi Hotspot Statistics for 2009

First, we would like to wish a happy new year to all of our operators and wi-fi users as well :)

We have collected some statistics using our global database of thousands of sales from hundreds of locations worldwide. It may help you as a guideline however we know that each operator has to find out what works best at their location, what prices to use, what access lengths to offer, etc.

PAYMENT METHODS

Pre-Paid Vouchers 49,54%
Credit Card Sales 44,02%
PayPal Sales 6,44%

TYPE OF CREDIT CARDS USED FOR BUYING HOTSPOT ACCESSES

Visa 54,82%
MasterCard 36,23%
Visa Delta 8,19%
Laser 0,34%
Solo 0,30%
Visa Electron UK Debit 0,09%
Maestro 0,03%

MOST POPULAR ACCESS PERIODS

1 HOUR 44%
24 HOURS 18%
3 HOURS 12%
2 HOURS 10%
1 WEEK 9%
30 MINUTES 8%
1 MONTH 6%

AVERAGE SALE PRICE BY CURRENCY

17.35 AUD
8.52 CAD
12.68 CHF
24.16 DKK
7.62 EUR
4.77 GBP
47.31 HRK
1952 HUF
73.79 NOK
11.66 NZD
97.53 SEK
552 THB
7.86 USD
60 ZAR

AVERAGE SALE PRICES BY ACCESS PERIODS and CURRENCY

30 MINUTES

2.9 USD
3.3 EUR

1 HOUR

4.73 USD
5.09 EUR


24 HOURS

7.44 USD
6.54 EUR

1 WEEK

16.7 USD
15.6 EUR

1 MONTH

21.9 USD
26.27 EUR


MOST POPULAR SALE PRICES BY CURRENCY

4.99 USD
3.5 EUR
1.99 GBP
3.95 CAD
6.5 AUD
8 NZD
70 ZAR

AVERAGE BANDWIDTH LIMITS USED

Download speed: 784 Kbit/s
Upload speed: 204 Kbit/s