Automating MTNL NU Downloading

[Arn]

Hi Guys!First Post!I'm a long time mtnl user,one of the early adopters of the NU plan Eventually I believe you get tired of staying up all night doing the whole router reboot thing for NU to work properly,I used to go for Windows Scheduler and other stuff to automate my work but the thing is they tend to not work once in a while meaning disastrous results. I'm hoping somebody here could direct me to a timer switch which would do the router switching ON/OFF work.I was surprised to see very little information about this on the net,all I keep getting are industrial switches or timed switches for lighting etc.Maybe I'm not searching properly.Could anybody please help me out.What exactly should be looking for in Lamington Road.Thanks

 

[kingpin]

Man-o-man you dont have to go for industrial timed switches..... the condition is not that bad....Forget the scheduler... the easiest way out is to make your modem to work in bridge mode and then making the connection to the internet via your computer....This way all you have to do is reboot your computer instead of your modem and the disastrous results wont occur.... And scheduling a reboot of your computer is much easier as your can force all apps to close and force a shutdown come what may and you wont be phucked....Also it would be great if you post your modem make and your OS as well... so we can take it forward from there...else you can check out the forums you'll find lot of posts about using the modem in bridge mode with detailed instructions...

 

[Arn]

I have a 502T router and as I mentioned I tried several variations of doing this with Windows Scheduler and Iopus.The thing is no matter how perfect you think the script is it always fails sometime and when it does...How is the bridge mode approach working for you,it seems people are having connectivity issues with that mode.I'm trying to keep these solutions aside for a while and am looking for a hardware level approach.

 

[kingpin]

Modem Guide - India Broadband Wiki

bridge mode is pretty good you just have to restart your PC and you can actually create a forced shutdown scheduler which will cause your PC to reboot come what may.....
So you basically are safe....

Give it a try....

 

[Arn]

Thanks for that Kingpin,the bridge mode setup looks pretty good,I'm on my Sify connection right now and will try it out tonight.If somebody doesn't come up with the timer switch details I probably switch to bridge

 

[kingpin]

Well worked perfectly fine for me for 3 months without a hitch..... now since i have a wireless router i have a scheduler in the router itself so I dont have to go thru the laborious process of system reboot....

 

[Arn]

What router are you using?

 

[Indrajeet]

"industrial timed switches" how much do they cost? Any idea? anyone?

 

[khoffman]

i am having the same problem...i do not want to put my modem on bridge mode..i have my reasons!!...please tell me how to perform a router reboot during the unlimited hours.
this is for a new modem issued by mtnl- TrendChip (has 4 lan slots)...
i have read the auto reboot posts for the D-Link 502 T but this is a different router..and the telnet interface is very confusing.
your earliest revert shall be much appreciated!
regards
nitin
[email protected]

 

[slv7014]

hi,I have a UT star 300 adsl modem from mtnl in bridged mode.I have a Netgear router 614v5 connected to itThe netgear router connects to net using username, password provided in the router.my router does not support telnet directlyso I wrote a small program to reboot router using the web interfaceusing the OpenURL interface.To disconnect:-OpenURL("http://admin[email protected]")OpenURL("http://admin[email protected]/st_poe.cgi?ConMethod=Disconnect")To reconnect:-OpenURL("http://admin[email protected]/st_poe.cgi?ConMethod=++Connect++")this wrks most of the time except when there is a line drop.So one can capture the result from the OpenURL, and parse it for success and save the setting in the registryAnother program starts the torrent downloader after chking value in registryIf the value is not correct, the program shuts down PC usingshutdown.exe -f -sIf anyone is code savy, I can post the code. It is in VBThe 2 above programs ensures that u will never get accidentally billed for the night