The Software “Imran’s Broadband Helper Utility” is intended to be used for PPPoE (Always ON) connections only, for managing the “free usage time” efficiently.
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Under the Time Tab you have to configure your Start and End of “Free Usage Time”
The s/w need to know this for its NIC and Connectivity services.
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You connect your PC to
ADSL Modem via your Network Interface Card (NIC), in simple terms NIC means your LAN/Ethernet card.
If you click on “Disable NIC Now” then the s/w will disable all LAN connections available in your “Network Connections” folder. (Try to click this and see under “Network Connections” folder)
Similarly if you click on “Enable NIC Now” then the s/w will enable all LAN connections available in your “Network Connections” folder. (Try to click this and see under “Network Connections” folder)
When you disable the connection between your PC and
Router, there will be No possibility for any s/w (in your system) to upload or download anything from the connection, this does not means the router is shut down or not capable of transferring data To/From Internet, particularly if you have a wi-fi enabled router then other wi-fi devices can connect to your router and use the Internet.
The s/w can schedule this Disabling/Enabling of NIC at specified Times (You need to “check” Use NIC Enable/Disable service).
Or
you can use “Auto Enable”/”Auto Disable” feature also, depending upon the “Free Time Period” you specified under Time Tab the s/w can “Auto Enable” and ”Auto Disable” the NIC. (You need to “check” “Auto Enable”/”Auto Disable” options)
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If you want the s/w should reboot your router at some specified times automatically, then you need at least three things properly configured.
a) list of “Times to reboot”
b) Use Modem Reboot Service – checked.
c) A working telnet script (as seen above in blue color).
Every brand of router needs a different script, if the default script (as shown above) does not work for you then you need to generate a correct script for your router.
For generating the correct script for your router you can click on Configure button or run Mytelnet.exe available in the application folder.
For a detailed guide see one of my earlier post.
The script you are viewing here is actually the contents of file “Reboot.txt” available in the application folder, you can make the changes into it through notepad also, but the contents must be correct for correct results.
After generating the correct script and saving it as “reboot.txt” file in the application folder, you should first test whether the script is working or not.
For testing – just schedule a reboot after two minutes from current time then click “OK” to save this change and watch the modem lights for the next two minutes (did it rebooted?).
Then see the log of the s/w also, if the s/w fails to reboot the modem then often it give an indication which help us to locate the incorrect line in the script.
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According to the author of the s/w:
“Your service provider can implement a program on server side which can reveal that whether you are opening some web pages regularly or not, and if not they often throttle your bandwidth”
For the solution of this problem he has implemented this connectivity service.
If you “check” Use connectivity Service at free usage time and add some web pages urls in the list, then the s/w will try to open all urls one by one after XX second’s interval (during free usage period only), by this way the server thinks that there is some person sitting on your PC so it does not throttle your bandwidth.
Also, if the program discovers that since last 4 minutes it is unable to open any page then it automatically reboots the modem to get a fresh connection.
Note: “Free Usage Time” is calculated according to what you have specified under Time Tab
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This MISC Tab may not need any clarifications…
However one thing to be noted is that “Shutdown the PC at HH:MM” feature sometime does not work so the author has implemented “Shutdown the PC During HH:MM-HH:MM” feature.
