help with mesh network and captive portal/social login
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Omada can do a basic hospitality deployment cheaply and without issue, I'd focus on the hardware install and setup. You can get fancy later with portals and splash pages.
Your biggest issue, being in a very dense euro city, will be the amount of competing wireless networks in the area. Wifi is unregulated and there are no rules on who can have how many, where they put them, what channels they are on etc. You might consider only making Guest access on the 5.8G channels for fewer complaints and I would be very careful if you are using wireless payment terminals that only run on 2.4G...you may have to add some extra APs to 'drown out' competing signals from nearby neighbours. Pay attention to your frequency plan and channel widths. I would highly recommend forcing the APs to use the narrowest channel possible, especially the 2.4G band (ie fix at 20Mhz). I would also consider doing your own manual frequency plan using the 1,6 and 11 channels only in 2.4G band...you know you're going to have interference from the surrounding area, might as well not interfere with yourself right! Google it! Based on your physical AP placement in the restaurant, have a look at the design on the left side below (right side would be more 5.8G channels, but not sure if this diagram was for EU or not)
