We have released a new version of our software suitable to extend your hotspot’s coverage area through the use of repeaters. Repeaters are wireless routers, who are wirelessly connected to the main wireless router running the Chilifire firmware, and thus extend the signal range and coverage. The new firmware is based on OpenWrt and can [...]

We now offer an unbranded version of our control panel. This new feature is aimed at our partners who want to share turn-over data and maybe even some of the configuration options with their own clients. While partners can manage their own clients as sub-account to their main account understandably they do not wish these [...]

Chillifire account holders no longer need to prepay vouchers when they are ordered online. You can still request them as you always have and they will be sent to you via PDF file to print and in a csv file for use in a word processing or graphics program of your choice. In fact everything [...]

Other than opening up vouchers we have added a number of additional features to Chillifire hotspots.
For starters we enabled a ‘whitelist’ feature in the router, which allows you to declare devices which will bypass any authentication and gain unlimited internet access. The declaration is done by MAC-address. To make things easy, we have added the [...]

We now support many routers of the Ubiquity range, namely Nanostation2, Nanostation5, Litestation2, Litestation5, Powerstation2 and Powerstation5.
We also support Foneras now, tested with Fonera+. Older Fonera models and Fonera 2.0 with Redboot enabled should also work fine but have not been tested yet. We are looking for your feedback.
Last but not least we have [...]

We are of course aware of the popularity of other router Firmware out there other than OpenWRT, on which our Firmware is built. Since this is the open source part of our solution, we do not really mind at all which firmware you choose to use on your router, as long as it can communicate [...]

We are ready to release our new OpenWRT Kamikaze based firmware for field trials and to support this effort, we have also commissioned two brand new web servers and authentication servers in Europe.
 
What does this mean for you, the hotspot owner?
 
Having Europe based servers means you will have a superior customer experience, when located outside [...]

The spanish language translation of Chillifire was performed by native speakers and covers the entire hotspot front end. We are looking forward to welcome more Spanish speaking hotspot owners to our community. And of course, we encourage anyone who wants to see their language represented to contribute. The translation apparently took less than an hour.
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Free-Access hotspots have finally arrived at Chillifire. This now delivers a much requested functionality to our service subscribers. In particular in the US hotspot access is expected as a free service in hotels, and other locations. So why have hotspots at all then if access is free for the end user? Because there are still [...]

We now offer the Moneybookers payment gateway as an additional payment option for your pay-by-use hotspot. Moneybookers is one of the large international payment gateway providers, who accept CC payments without requiring expensive banking merchant accounts from users of their service. Their service accepts payments in over 190 countries and [...]