Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Reboot the UTSTARCOM WA3002G4 router

After trying the free software I'd appreciate it if you left a comment if it DID or DID NOT work with your UTSTARCOM WA3002G4 ! Enjoy !

This software developed by me is free to distribute and use. It's not digitally signed and comes with no guarantees! Use it at your own risk!

Routers are usually rebooted by hitting the switch located at its back. Well .. that's OK if you have to do that when you are around. What if you needed to reboot the router when you are away from it automatically through the PC that is connected to the UTSTARCOM WA3002G4 wireless router?

If yes .. This article is for YOU!

Rebooting the Router assures that the Internet Service Provider's (ISP's) system refreshes daily data-transfer log for your account. Some ISPs provide free download times but fail to refresh you daily transfer log. So unless you reconnect to your ISP the daily trasfer log is not updated. (This happens with only some ISPs)

Things you'll need:
  1. UTSTARCOM WA3002G4 wireless ADSL router (might work with other UTStarcom routers)
  2. Windows 2000, XP (not tested but might work on Vista)
  3. Scheduler (if you are interested in scheduling the reboot run)
Instructions
  1. Download the zip file in this link (contains RebootRouter.exe, RebootRouter.bat and README.txt). Unzip the file and extract the files to a folder on your PC.
  2. Open the file README.txt and follow the instructions to successfully execute the software.
  3. Leave a comment if it did or did not work for you
Motivation

Upon getting a call from my ISP saying that they would update my old Huawei wired router with an elegant brand new UTStarcom Wireless Router, "That's just great" thought I. My Huawei router was commanded to reboot every midnight. This ensured that my ISP's system refreshed my daily data-transfer log. The reboot program used TST10.exe to telnet to the router and reboot it. It was frustrating to note that it did not work with the new UTSTARCOM WA3002G4 wireless router. TST10.exe could not handle the commands I issued or I did not know how to work around TST10.exe to get the job done.

Determined I decided to build my own solution. It fructified to this.

Hope you find it useful as well.

The software mentioned in this article is developed by the author of the article . It is free to distribute and use. It's not digitally signed and comes with no guarantees! Use it at your own risk!

13 comments:

  1. ....this works up a charm...now im goin to try this thing to prevent my limited connection bills from bloating up....there is a problem with bsnl...they are charging my downloads in free hours too....anyways thanks a ton....

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  2. this tool really help my downloads in my xp32 os but this tool is not support in 64 bit u have any idea to run this in 64 bit please help me

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  3. rebootrouter really works fine in xp32 bit but its not work in 64 bit any idea u have to wrk in 64 bit i am waiting for your reply thanks to post reboot router its really help me lot

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  4. why is it showing an error message.. like :

    USAGE => Rebootrouter.exe and blah ! blah till the admin password

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  5. HI Thanks for the software..
    ^^ If u are getting any message edit the .bat file as given in the .TXT document

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  6. hey thanks for this. But i am facing a strange issue, wthen i reboot my wireless works fine for sometime after sometime it stops working (though it shows connected and signal strength excellent). again if i reboot the modem it works. the same story repeats... any suggestions.

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  7. hi ur program worked really well but i would like a program or a batch file tat i can schedule it to run at shutdown i have WA3002g4 modem .
    if u could edit the exe file wid ip adress 192.168.1.1 and login and password are admin so tat i dont have to pass it from the batch file. it would really be helpful.

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  8. Thanks for the comments and updates !
    Edit the .bat file before you use it with your modem.

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  9. @Apollo

    The file works fine when I execute it.

    But for some reason it doesn't work when I schedule it, and the machine wakes up from sleep.

    In order to make it to work, I have to manually login to user account and click on the CMD screen.

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  10. @WinPrabhu - try running it in 32 compatability mode.
    @AJ - please check permissions set in the task scheduler

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  11. @All - not sure if anyone is still using this exe anymore. Not even sure if the download link works anymore, its been a while...

    I think/hope the world might have moved onto better things now ?

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