OptimumOnline → Anyway to remotely reboot a modem?

Friend of mine has a weird problem. Sometimes around once a month the modem needs to be rebooted. Not to often, and it wouldnt be a problem if it wasnt at a location far from his house.

Its for a security camera system, so I noticed that if I logged into the modem status page I noticed you would reboot the modem. I dont know if that has the same effect as yanking the power or pressing reset.

But it would be nice to know.

Thanks for any help

As long as it's still functioning, if you remote into the modem webserver configuration manager page (»192.168.100.1/config.html) and click reset modem, it should work.

Helped out someone with the same request back in January. You'd have to run a web server on a local machine on their LAN and add a page that the web server could execute like what's outlined at »Re: Restart your motorola modem from a link

The above is the specific post, but you should read the entire thread.

Nice, thanks, now I wonder if there is a way to automate it in some way.

Like maybe with the task thingy in XP Pro to run once a night or something.
Or maybe something that checks for conectivity once an hour and if not then it runs the script.

Thanks!

Yes, you can automate. Just get the syntax to run IE (iexplore.exe) calling a specific page. get it all in a BAT/CMD file to do what you want and add it to task scheduler.

If one of the machines on the remote LAN is running XP Pro, you can use "Remote Desktop Connection" to access the modem's config page and reboot it from there.

If the remote site had lost connectivity due to a hosed modem, how would you make the remote desktop connection?

I still think the most reliable solution would be to put the equipment on an X10 appliance module.

I thought it was more of a request for remote modem reboot, before it went belly-up, not that it was already dead. I agree, RDC would be of little value in that case!

I RD/VNC in and reboot my modem now and then. There's a 10 second countdown IIRC with my SB5100. Of course I loose my RD/VNC session and must reconnect.

GeekNJ's webserver script is elegant. Thumbs up!

David
RealVNC: »www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC: »www.tightvnc.com/
UltraVNC: »ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ (I like these builds.)

wouldn't the easiest and cheapest way be to use a lamp timer to turn the modem off and on once a day for 1 minute, at some time when it wouldn't be in use

JoshNJ -- Nice thinking!!! Very nice....

The Illustration is a good example of a cheap solution, but why do it the easy way, after all, we're geeks, right? ...:p

The timer pictured has 1/2 hour increments, so the shortest segment you could power down for is a 30 minute cycle.
I'm certain there are timers available with a shorter cycle intervals.