Free license limitations

[pgr]

Hi there,

I was a Wingate user (and amateur admin) some years ago when I worked somewhere else, now I am considering using it again (I liked it) but only in the free license limited to 3 users.

This is just for a small non-profit where kids come in to study in our rooms. I want to give them Internet access there, but with some limitations to keep them off sites they shouldn't use during their study.

I don't have many kids there, normally 2 or 3, but sometimes more, and I need to keep the current (full) Internet access for other people in the organization (2).

So, my question is this: are the 3 allowed users of the license enough to enforce my policies? I'm thinking of two groups of people, each would share a user login (like, one group would log in as "work", the other as "kids" or "guests"). I don't need to make distinctions of different people within the groups.

Can I do this with the free license? Treat the "user" concept as a distinction for access policies, without concern for the actual number of people logging in? Or will it limit me to just three people using the Internet at a given time?

Thanks!
Pgr

[adrien]

Hi

the word "user" in the context of license enforcement does not strictly mean person or account.

Otherwise people would just use the guest (unknown) account for countless people on a free license.

It's restricted by IP address. Each device will use a license count.

Also just for completeness, if you have any multiple user context machines (e.g. terminal services / citrix), then it uses a license count per user. This won't apply to you with the free license though, since that is an enterprise feature.

Regards

Adrien

[pgr]

Ok Adrien, thanks for your answer.

Pgr