Hi all,

OK, I know that this is both sooooooo way off topic and commercial, I deserve a flaming from hell (I've just put on my asbestos y-fronts, in case), but as this group is the most varied teccy assembly I know, there's bound to be somebody here who can point me in the right direction.

I have a client who owns two hotels. They want to do two things:

1 - VPN between them.
2 - Give Internet access to bedrooms and conference rooms

Now, the first option is a piece of piss, but there are so many choices etc. for the second that I'm getting a bit stuck.

The reason why is that I need to be able to charge for access (either by bandwidth used, or bandwidth allocated), as well as being able to monitor how long each user is surfing for (this is to monitor the staff). Turning access on and off and then billing it all should be easily managed from a console somewhere (reception?) by a 'normal' member of staff.

Cost isn't really a worry - providing they can recover this by billing it to their guests.

Now, I'm not asking anybody here to do any legwork for me, but if anybody has any pointers on who or what to look for, I'd be very grateful.

Cheers,

Nick.