RedButton Internet Blog

After a series of arduous night marches, we file this dispatch from our Cape Town HQ. Over the last few weeks, the advance of our Free WiFi network has continued unabated. Hard work has met its reward and our hearts stir with gratitude over every inch of ground liberated. This is however just the beginning, [...]

At RedButton remote network monitoring and on site management is a key part of the service we provide to our clients. We actively monitor every single managed router in our network and take action to resolve any technical issues. What you might be interested in is how our technicians keep their eagle eyes on the [...]

From time to time users query the amount of credit used up during a session. This is only natural when logging on to check email and seeing usage that does not fit earlier patterns. In this post, which is generally applicable whether using RedButton or not, we discuss what may cause usage spikes, how to [...]

A picture says a thousand words and so this post consists of the picture below recently taken @ Beleza – a popular restaurant that forms a part of Cape Town’s Free WiFi Super Circuit as mentioned in our previous post. Thank you to Ronald from Beleza for the picture.

We launched the RedButton Free WiFi product a few weeks ago and are pleased to report that you can now get the potent combination of free wifi and great food at a number of prime establishments in Cape Town’s new Free Wifi Super Circuit. Read on to see where you can experience culinary nirvana whilst [...]

The current default RedButton portal page, a stalwart that put in a good 16 months worth of service, is due for a face lift and so from coming Friday you’ll see the new default RedButton Prepaid WiFi and RedButton Free WiFi portal pages go live at relevant hotspots. If you have any feedback or suggestions [...]

We have some good news for our end-users, we are in the process of standardising our RedButton Prepaid WiFi hotspot rates into three rate classes – promotion, standard and premium. Regardless of the rate class at any particular hotspot users also enjoy the following benefits: Free 12 month carry-over on credit purchased No monthly contract [...]

At RedButton we run a network of hundreds of routers with our hardware platform of choice predominantly being the Linksys WRT54GL and also MikroTik Routerboards. In both cases the devices run RedButton firmware resulting in a fully integrated, managed and monitored network. Both devices are used by a plethora of local and international hotspot and [...]

We had a highly successful launch of our Free WiFi product at Long Street Cafe yesterday. To top it off ITWeb today published an excellent article Dining out on restaurant WiFi which effectively follows up on an ITWeb article Free WiFi is ‘hard model to get right’ published nine months ago. We spent the time [...]

We are officially launching our new RedButton Free WiFi Product on the 9th of June and it is available for preview. The product has been specifically built to cater for the needs of the hospitality industry, its all about boosting traditional sales and brand loyalty. Restaurateurs and hoteliers have the control needed to use free [...]