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Chapter 7: Boingo™ Hot Spot in a Box® Program for Hot Spot Businesses
How the Boingo Hot Spot in a Box Feature Impacts the Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router
Wireless-G VPN Broadband Router
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Boingo will pay you $1.00 every day that a Boingo monthly subscriber or roaming system user connects to
one of your locations and $4.00 every day that someone connects using a Boingo AsYouGo day
connection.
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Boingo will pay you $20 every time you sign up a new Boingo monthly subscriber who remains a member
for 60 days.
Boingo will track your sign-ups with a sales channel code that is assigned to the Router when you register
with Boingo, and Boingo will send you a usage statement and commission check every month. You can
track your usage and account sign-ups through Boingo’s convenient Hot Spot in a Box Administration
website.
How the Boingo Hot Spot in a Box Feature Impacts the Linksys
Wireless-G Broadband Router
The Linksys Wireless-G VPN Broadband Router is a highly advanced networking solution that combines a Wi-Fi
access point, a built-in 4-port, full-duplex 10/100 switch to connect your wired Ethernet devices, and a router
that ties it all together and lets your whole network share a high-speed cable or DSL Internet connection.
If you enable the Hot Spot in a Box feature, the Router can only be used wirelessly as a public commercial hot
spot device, and you will no longer have access to your private network wirelessly—you will only have wired
access. For security reasons, the wired and wireless sides of your device are kept separate when the Hot Spot in
a Box feature is enabled.
You can provide a public hot spot while simultaneously maintaining security and
privacy on your private wired network, and both share the same Internet connection.
To maintain wireless access to your private network, you can simply add a wireless access point, like the Linksys
WAP54G, to one of the wired Ethernet LAN ports.
You will still be able to use the wireless interface of the Router to access the Internet when Hot Spot in a Box is
enabled.
During the Hot Spot in a Box registration process, you can enter the MAC addresses (unique serial
numbers) of your wireless adapters or cards so that you can access the Internet without a Boingo subscription or
day account.
Of course, you can also still access the Internet and your local network through any one of the four
LAN ports on the Router.
Once the Router has been registered with Boingo as a Hot Spot in a Box, you can easily unregister the device and
restore the factory default settings by going back to the “Hot Spot” tab on the web-based utility interface and
checking the
Disable
box. If you decide to re-register your device, you can do so by repeating the Boingo
registration process.
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