I’ve got my VM working nicely that has a cakePHP system that incorporates a nice front-end with a radius backend to administer hotspots.  Idea is to get this working with a custom build of openWRT ideally on hw that is deemed to be stable and have some features that I think are worthwhile - i.e. Gb ethernet, and MIMO N wireless signaling.  Mostly this is about clearing my thoughts on what to do next:

1. Management system allowing me to incorporate activations, billing, status, etc. Implemented now, but needs modification of rules to incorporate 1 rule: make it easy to share ourFI.
2. Select router compatible with openWRT, the package coova-chilli, and finally pptp so that authentication of the remote router to the RADIUS server when you are behind a cable modem w/o a static IP.

These of course are just the generic first steps, my inital router purchases have been DD-WRT compatible, but apparently it’s implementation of chillispot is less than ideal.  

Anyways, what’s the point of all this??  Well to make something that will allow people to share their wireless without talking to anyone, and get paid to do it!

update: tomatoUSB potentially might work for the router.  I think that we are in uncharted waters here…