Charon provides a simple and safe way to resell an Internet connection. Users are optionally charged in real-time by volume of data transferred. On-the-spot web-based registration with mikolaj.cx and an initial credit card deposit through PayPal is supported.

Firmware images suitable for installation directly onto any wireless access point supported by OpenWRT (eg, much of the Linksys WRT54G family) are available for a next-to-zero-effort startup, and the source should compile and work on any Linux system with IPTables.