Looking forward to your guide.
Very interesting & clever. I would love to read your guide on this. Hope you make it
This is brilliant. Iâm in! Whatâs the budget to setup?
i not sure about the author system but with a dongle/a local sim card⌠open it as a hotspot plusss some sort of battery bank. and a landing page that it opens to⌠can you imagine the possibilities at concerts or convention centers. like candy to babies
Depends on the type of hardware you buy. Anywhere from 50-100 dollars total.
You technically could use a dongle, but since this is not actually creating a hotspot while in spam mode you couldnât use it for that. You could obviously do this but with only one hotspot showing up for people.
The thing is, this already exists without any tweaking, coding or linux knowledge required.
A WiFi Pineapple Nano is $99 and has everything included, software interface to do this exact thing, and there are a few plugins that do this exact broadcasting feature and lots more for pentesting/security research. You just need a usb battery pack to plug it into.
Thatâs hella expensive I can do it for sub 5$ per device (no actual Internet connection provided)
Otherwise could be around 30 or 40 for a normal Hotspot.
you are absolutely right⌠thanks for pointing the way
Thatâs interesting. I am looking for your detailed guide on it.
do you have a guide for the affordable version? that would also be a very interesting guide
Of course, but the cost is in the convenience and easy interface they built, along with all the other tools, which for some people is the better decision. I mean it can be done with a Raspberry Pi or other similar boards too, just not plug-n-play like this thing is (for the most part).
The actual hardware I am using is less than $5. The expensive stuff in this setup are the batteries and the antenna.
Iâm guessing ESP8266?
I would love to see the guide for the setup!
There is a little device you can buy i have seen, where you carry it or put it in a space crowded.
It will pop a ânotificationâ up on everyones phone in the radius.
Kinda similar, cool nonetheless!
Even though iâm not a hardware (or software guy) I am still interested in the guide
This reminds me of the golden bluetooth period where plenty such promotional emissions were used in local public spaces.
It actually worked and I would personally connect to them without questioning authenticity. I would however recommend that your offering or products are relevant to the space youâre in.
This way youâre least likely to encounter issues such as were mentioned by @ian
The main challenge will be to outperform the approved Wi-Fi connections in the given space.
Prioritising spaces where there are no existing networks could be beneficial.
This Guerilla marketing technique is really interesting. Looking forward for the guide.
Whatâs up with this? Was a guide ever created?