Thread: Automated free night downloading

This tutorial is for those users who have free net connection at night (Mainly meant for bsnl users who have 500 plan which has free browsing from 2am – 8 am). U guys thought u need to wake up at 2am then put it for download and then go to sleep??? Well u have the pc to do these things for you…

Well the obvious way is to put on the pc on for the entire night and then schedule it to download. Then again y waste so much electricity???

Well follow the following steps to have a good night sleep and wake up in the morning to see ur pc downloaded couple of large movies for u to enjoy… and u wont have to waste money paying electricity bills 4 those extra hours prior to download by putting ur system on idly.

* First of all open the notepad, then type in the following

rasdial BSNL username password

Here type in ur bsnl username and password in the specified places.

Eg: if ur username is say pcmobile24x7 and ur password is revolution then type in

rasdial BSNL pcmobile24x7 revolution

* Then go to file >save as then save your file as “bsnl.bat” with quotes in the Filename area. Click save and save it somewhere.

* Now go to Control panel > Scheduled Tasks. Click Add Scheduled Tasks .this will open a scheduled task wizard window. Click Next to continue. This will open up a list of programs from which u can select. Click browse and locate the bsnl.bat file u saved. Click next and check mark the perform tasks daily button.

* Now set the time to say 2:10 am and click next to continue. It will take u to a window which asks for password. ENTER PASSWORD ONLY IF U HAVE SET A PASSWORD TO ACESS UR USER ACCOUNT ELSE LEAVE IT BLANK.

It might show an error after clicking finish but u can ignore it.

* Now go to control panel > Scheduled tasks then right click the schedule which u created and go to properties. In the task tab tick run only if logged in. In the settings tab tick the option which says wake the computer to run this task. Untick the other 2 options. Now click apply to apply the settings.

* Now once again schedule the task of running your torrent client software(Eg: bittorrent, utorrent , azerus etc) using schedule tasks using the same settings as above except ticking the option which says wake the computer to run this task.

Put this task to a time say 2.15am.

· Inside ur client software there must be scheduler. Schedule the downloads to end at say 7:45am.

· Now open a notepad file and type in

shutdown -f -s

now save the file as powerdown.bat . Schedule this file to go off at 7:46am using schedule tasks(using the same settings as above except ticking the option which says wake the computer to run this task). Now u r all set to go.

Remember u can rename the above file to anything. But dont give the name as shutdown.bat its a common mistake everyone makes. renaming it to shutdown.bat causes a loop to go around in cmd. So name it anything except shutdown.bat

* Go to start > turn off computer. Then hold the shift key and click on Hibernate to put the pc to hibernate position. Turn off monitor and speakers and go and have a nice sleep and get up in the morning to see ur downloads completed.



Remember to put PC in hibernate mode to make this work and remember to turn off ur speakers and monitor to reduce power consumption. On days which u don’t have any downloads. Just turn off the pc and go.

Remember

Goto Control Panel->Power options-> Advanced Tab->and uncheck the "Prompt for password when computer starts from standby"

Hope u liked the tutorial. Please try it and if u face any troubles please comment here and let me know. If u guys liked it also please leave a comment…

Have a nice day…

yes, i use this method and this is the best since it does not need any 3rd party application, you can even schedule flashget, utorrent etc..

Do these steps work for Vista also.... or is there some other way to do the same in vista..

There is a free litttle aplication which does the same thing. Even it can launch an application on startup. To get it google for 'wakeuponstandby'. It even wakes up your pc from hibernation.

Utorrent has a great scheduling feature. I downloaded nearly 40gbs per month with just utorrent.
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I use Auto Power on & Shutdown. Its great.
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If you can't find it, pm me.

using rtc alram in mother board settings is good compare to hibernating the system. i am using RTC alaram since 6 months.