Facebook Places is basically a way to get free word-of-mouth advertising for your company. As user check-ins are included in Facebook indexing, depending on privacy and timeline settings, the user’s friends can see that the user checked-in at your place. This is a simple way to build trust and brand awareness, as people are more likely to buy from a company that a friend suggested.
How can I be listed as a place on Facebook?
You are listed as a Facebook Place if you chose “Local business” as Page Category when you created the Facebook Page of your business. If you chose another category, you can change it following these instructions: “How to let people check-in at my business”.
Tanaza allows you to enable the social login flow in any Tanaza hosted splash page, without any complex configuration.
Your Tanaza hosted splash page will not need maintenance. It will always work with the login flow you selected, without any effort after the first configuration, because Tanaza makes its social login compliant to the current Facebook policies.
If you want your users to be happy and to easily access your WiFi, you should enable a simple and short login flow. Tanaza allows you to do it with the Facebook check-in login flow.
Let’s see what happens when the user connects to the WiFi network you configured as described at this link.
The client that finds your SSID between the available WiFi networks will see, at first, the splash page you configured.
Then, he will see the default Facebook button (or the one you configured) right in the middle of the splash page, so it’s easy for him to understand that he has to tap on it to connect to the WiFi. (more…)
Wi-Fi stumblers complete list | Windows Mac Linux Android
This is the most comprehensive list of 17 free and commercial Wi-Fi network stumblers for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.
In this post, we will look at the 17 most popular Wi-Fi network stumblers for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS, which will help you to examine and survey your Wi-Fi network in order to better plan, troubleshoot and deploy it.
Kismet is a detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system for 802.11 WLANs. Kismet works by passively collecting packets and detecting standard named networks. Without sending any loggable packets, it detects the presence of both wireless APs and wireless clients, and to associate them with each other. Last update was released in 2013.
Vistumbler is a wireless network scanner written in AutoIT that runs only on Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. It shows network’s name, signal strength, kind of encryption, Mac Address, channel, manufacturer. It also graphs the traffic for each network. Last update was released in 2013.
InSSIDer is a tool developed by MetaGeek to scan, visualize, and troubleshoot WLANs. It shows what the Wi‑Fi environment looks like, both physically and logically. It identifies signal overlap, channel conflicts, and configuration issues that are degrading the WLAN’s performance.
The Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector is a free tool to characterize the integrity and performance of a Wi-Fi network. It detects Rogue APs and provides peak Wi-Fi network performance.
WiFi Explorer is a WLANs scanner tool to identify channel conflicts, signal overlapping or configuration problems that may affect the connectivity and performance of a wireless network.
NetSurveyor is an 802.11 network discovery tool that gathers information about nearby wireless access points in real time. It’s useful when installing, testing, and troubleshooting 802.11 adapters and wireless networks. It helps verifying the network is properly configured, trouble-shooting an existing network that is performing poorly, conducting wireless site surveys.
KisMAC is a free, open source wireless stumbling and security tool for Mac OS X. This sniffer/scanner application reveals hidden, cloacked and closed SSIDs; shows logged in clients (with MAC Addresses, IP addresses and signal strengths); can draw area maps of network coverage, thanks to GPS support.
NetSpot is a free Mac native tool to conduct network site surveys. It works over any 802.11 network. It helps identify connectivity and wireless interference issues, find sources of excessive noise, resolve Wi-Fi configuration problems.
Acrylic WiFi is a WiFi scanner that gathers information from 802.11/a/b/g/n/ac networks. It shows: SSIDs/BSSIDs and connected users; signal quality charts for WiFi channels; network authentication and security details for WEP, WPA, WPA2 and Enterprise (802.1X) WLANs.
This is a simple tool to conduct site surveys or track down rogue APs. Results can be sent by e-mail. It shows bridged APs, but not their MAC info. Last update was released in 2010.
iStumbler provides information about nearby Wi-Fi networks, Bluetooth devices, Bonjour services and their Locations. It lists visible wireless networks with complete information, graphically indicates network type and encryption status, identifies signal and noise.
NetStumbler is a tool that detects WLANs using 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g. No updated version has been developed since 2005. NetStumbler helps detecting networks interference.
WiFi Scanner detects access points and clients in ad-hoc mode if the SSID is being broadcasted. Use it for wireless site surveys, wireless discovery, and to connect to WiFi networks. The tool reports signal strength in dBm and shows access point BSSID/MAC addresses. It scans 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands.
WirelessNetView is a small utility that runs in the background, and monitor the activity of wireless networks around you. For each detected network, it displays the following information: SSID, Last Signal Quality, Average Signal Quality, Detection Counter, Authentication Algorithm, Cipher Algorithm, MAC Address, RSSI, Channel Frequency, Channel Number, and more.
WirelessMon is a software tool that allows users to monitor the status of wireless WiFi adapters and gather information about nearby wireless access points and hotspots. WirelessMon can log the information it collects into a file, while also providing comprehensive graphing of signal level and real time IP and 802.11 WiFi statistics.
iwScanner is a wireless scanner for Linux with an easy to use graphic interface. It gives information about detected wireless networks (AP, MAC, Channel, Encryption, etc) and indentifies signal strenght for every wireless network.
Netsniff-ng was initially created by Daniel Borkmann as a network sniffer with support of the Linux kernel packet-mmap interface for network packets. The toolkit currently consists of a network analyzer, packet capturer and replayer, a wire-rate traffic generator, an encrypted multiuser IP tunnel, a Berkeley Packet Filter compiler, networking statistic tools, an autonomous system trace route and more.
Unfortunately we didn’t find any stumbler for iOS. This is probably because in 2010 Apple removed several popular Wi-Fi stumblers from the App Store (WiFi-Where, WiFiForum and yFy Network Finder). Apple justify the removal of the apps because they used “a private framework to access wifi information”. This is described in Cult of Mac blog (read more).
How to choose the Wi-Fi splash page that works best for you
Let’s start. We’re here to talk about Wi-Fi splash pages (Tanaza ones or external ones, it doesn’t matter) and why you should take your time to think about them.
3 reasons why splash pages are important:
Terms and conditions. Accepting them, the user consents to the use of his personal data.
Branding and advertisements. Users are reading your page carefully to go further and connect to your Wi-Fi, so take advantage of this and show engaging advertisements and offers.
Social login and data capture. Enabling social login, the login process becomes easy and quick. You can record all data that users give to you.
Give one-click access (no data required) to the Wi-Fi
Ask for e-mail and/or phone
Collect data
Once that you have decided which are your goals and which is your strategy, you are at the crossroads between the Tanaza splash page, a 3rd party splash page or designing your own one.
Here you find a comparative table that can help you decide what works best for you:
The different ways have many things in common, but here are some suggestions.
If you are using hardware from Meraki, Aruba Networks, Aerohive, you should choose a 3rd party splash page, because Tanaza doesn’t support these devices. Another reason to use a 3rd party splash page is the need for very specific apps like publishing weather information on the splash page, or exchanging banners.
If you want 100% control on HTML and 100% control of the user experience, you should definitely choose to cloud manage with Tanaza your own devices and then build your own splash page (keep in mind that this requires a lot of effort and strong IT skills, see specs).
Instead, if you don’t want to spend a lot of time creating your own splash page, if the included features are the ones you’re looking for, and you want a ready-for-use hotspot, with social login on 6 different social networks, up and running in 3 minutes… Tanaza splash page is your best option.
Don’t forget that only Tanaza “Social login” account includes also the access to thenew social dashboard, an essential powerful marketing tool that Tanaza has recently released.
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Why should Facebook Places interest me?
Vistumbler is a wireless network scanner written in AutoIT that runs only on Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. It shows network’s name, signal strength, kind of encryption, Mac Address, channel, manufacturer. It also graphs the traffic for each network. Last update was released in 2013.
Acrylic WiFi is a WiFi scanner that gathers information from 802.11/a/b/g/n/ac networks. It shows: SSIDs/BSSIDs and connected users; signal quality charts for WiFi channels; network authentication and security details for WEP, WPA, WPA2 and Enterprise (802.1X) WLANs.
