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DW6000 reset utility

Very nice!
Thanks for taking the time to do this for us.

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Thanks Don -

Spinnaker

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Great utility mr. dbirdman, but after mine hangs, I cannot telnet into my 6000. I have to physically unplug the unit. It also fixes it by rebooting windows. ?????
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DW6000CE w/ DirecTV (Kit A) | G4R/1370H ~75 | XP Pro SP2/RC2 | Windows Firewall On | P4 3.0 HT | 1 GB PC3200 | 120GB SATA

said by suntken34:

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Great utility mr. dbirdman, but after mine hangs, I cannot telnet into my 6000. I have to physically unplug the unit. It also fixes it by rebooting windows. ?????

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Don -

I don't think there's a problem...

I ran your reset utility and then immediately opened a telnet session to 192.168.0.1 1953 and entered "rr". It all worked fine.

The way I read suntken34's post... He's saying that when his DW6000 stops working, he can't telnet to it. He has to unplug it... Or reboot Windows

Spinnaker
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DW6000 CE/Std on G4R/1370H, Gateway 66.82.156.27, Signal ~76, Wired LAN, 2-WinXP Pro, 2-Win98SE

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Hi Don,

Thanks again for your efforts. They greatly benefit the satellite Internet community.

During testing today, I tested the app each time on three different DW6000s. Sometimes I ran the app two or three times in a row on the same 6000. I never got a hang.

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It worked fine for me, I placed a shortcut icon down into the quicklaunch taskbar, and although I havent tried that yet, (the wife would only allow one reset this evening I cant see why it wont work there and it is something that DW should have set up from the get go.

Thanks!
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SatMex5 1050mhz | DW6000-CE |HP a620n 2.2G | Win XP | 2 XP PC Network via D-Link DSS 5+ switch

Thank-You dbirdman (Don), The utility works GRRREAT without a hitch. And as waltham said, It should have been there from the begging or at least brought in with our forced updates. U DA MAN
Frank
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DW6000 CE/G3C-1120-95W/Signal~85/Wired Lan,W2k Server,W2k Pro,XP Pro,Dedicated W2k Pro for SkyWatch Observer

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said by Spinnaker:

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The way I read suntken34's post... He's saying that when his DW6000 stops working, he can't telnet to it. He has to unplug it... Or reboot Windows

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You wrote the code, and you are looking for a failure.. so that's how you read it.

Spinnaker
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DW6000 CE/Std on G4R/1370H, Gateway 66.82.156.27, Signal ~76, Wired LAN, 2-WinXP Pro, 2-Win98SE

said by Spinnaker:

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You wrote the code, and you are looking for a failure.. so that's how you read it.

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said by dbirdman:

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Whew. I'm sorry he has that problem, but I can see that it does look like I misread it. Had me looking at the code and scratching my head trying to figure out how it could be holding a telnet session open through a reset!

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Now that its just a click of a mouse to be able to reset the modem, does anyone have any opinions as to what is too many resets? Would it hurt to reset once or twice a day if you feel that it betters your browsing?
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DW6000-CE | SatMex5 1050mhz |HP a620n 2.2G | Win XP | 2 XP PC Network via D-Link DSS 5+ switch

My opinion of resetting is:
You cannot hurt anything by resetting somthing to much. Provided you are not in the middle of a software update/install. Then I think you could run into problems. But most if not all, those will come in the middle of the night when no activity is happening. Ofcourse, there will be other opinions and I could be wrong.
Frank
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DW6000 CE/G3C-1120-95W/Signal~85/Wired Lan,W2k Server,W2k Pro,XP Pro,Dedicated W2k Pro for SkyWatch Observer

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My fear is that the NOC MAY shut your connection down if you do too many resets in a short period of time. Then you would have to call Support and jump through the hoops to get back up. Playing with the utility last night, I did 3 resets in about an hour's time with no problem.

You can probably do a reset once a day, but I would do it only as needed to clear a problem. When you do a reset you clear the DW6000's counter's and stored values such as X-pol isolation numbers, Number of Successful Transmissions, Number of Failed Transmissions, Frames Received, etc. Sometimes that info is handy to have.

Spinnaker
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DW6000 CE/Std on G4R/1370H, Gateway 66.82.156.27, Signal ~76, Wired LAN, 2-WinXP Pro, 2-Win98SE

When working on things I've sometimes done a dozen resets in an hour (4020).

When on the road it is not uncommon for me to deploy my dish 3-4 times per day, and each of those deployments involves a reset for lat/long update. I've never seen any indication that the NOC knows, or cares.

Even when stationary on road trips I usually have one "hard" reset per day because the modems are often off overnight to conserve battery power.
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XP Pro | G11 | 1350 | 4020 Plus II | Datastorm Mobile

said by dbirdman:

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I've never seen any indication that the NOC knows, or cares.

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The utility has been downloaded more than 100 times in less than 24 hours. Most gratifying!
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XP Pro | G11 | 1350 | 4020 Plus II | Datastorm Mobile

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Works well on my BLS here. Thanks!