Collecting Wifi usage statistics?

[Cindy Murdock Ames]

I've recently started using Ubiquiti UniFi access points in our libraries.
The UniFi APs connect to a central controller server (a vm I'm hosting at
our main library) and one of the bonuses is that the controller server
collects stats.  I can also manage & monitor all our access points through
the controller, and I get an email if one of them goes down.  The APs don't
have all the capabilities that wifi routers usually do, for example they
don't do DHCP, so you have to have a DHCP server on the network they're
connected to, but so far I am very impressed.

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Cindy Murdock Ames
IT Services Director
Meadville Public Library | CCFLS
http://meadvillelibrary.org | http://ccfls.org


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Jim Gilbert(WTPL) <
gilbert.j at whitehallpl.org> wrote:

>  Google Analytics tied to a “log-in” page through our pfSense portal.
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> Analytics handles everything periodically.
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> Currently the login page requests Card# / E-mail Address / PIN.
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> Doesn’t really do anything till we can develop the authentication into
> pfSense.
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> It does give us a page to capture the stats through!
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> James Gilbert, BS, MLIS
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> Systems Librarian
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> Whitehall Township Public Library
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> 3700 Mechanicsville Road
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> Whitehall, PA 18052
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> 610-432-4339 ext: 203
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> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On
> Behalf Of *Chadwick, John C.
> *Sent:* Monday, December 16, 2013 4:08 PM
> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] Collecting Wifi usage statistics?
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> In my last job we used the Cisco Wireless Control System (WCS) and it was
> very easy to get usage statistics. Other major vendors have similar
> solutions.
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> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6305/
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> John Chadwick
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> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>]
> *On Behalf Of *Erica Cathers
> *Sent:* Monday, December 16, 2013 8:05 AM
> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] Collecting Wifi usage statistics?
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> I’m wondering what methods other libraries use to collect statistics for
> the use of their public wifi hotspots.
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> Our router allows me to choose which day of the month the traffic counter
> resets, but I can’t turn the resetting completely off to let it cumulate.
> Once it has reset, the statistics for the previous period are lost. The
> small window of opportunity would make it very difficult to catch the stats
> consistently. Even if we managed to record them, I’m not sure whether the
> number of megabytes uploaded and downloaded would be very meaningful,
> anyway.
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> Can anyone recommend a router that is set up better for collecting
> statistics? Or software we could use (preferably free)? If you are able to
> count individual users and record the times of usage, how do you do it? We
> know some people sit outside our building to use the wifi signal when we’re
> closed, but it would be interesting to know how much this is going on.
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> Thanks for any tips you can send my way.
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> Erica Cathers
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> Gloucester City Public Library (NJ)
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