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kde

Hello guys,

I am facing lots of problem regarding H1000 Plan, specially during and after the Night Unlimited scheme.
I usually have a scheduler which turns off my system before 8 AM.
And when I go to sleep I just keep my system on and uTorrent is scheduled to start download at 2 AM.
Since now I was using bridge connection so it wasn't an issue, as soon as my system goes down i.e. turned off usually my connection used to terminate and no billed usage after 8 AM.

But now as I have switched to always on connection, I have no possible way to disconnect it without Telnet scripting and I wasn't aware of this even few days ago. So I just scheduled my system to be turned off at 8 AM but when I checked my usage, there was 200 to 300 MB billed usage everyday. And when I used to wake up, I used to see Act indicator was blinking furiously though my system is switched off!

So I decided to take help of Telnet scripting to disable PPPoE just before 2 AM and again before 8 AM and turning it on just after 2 AM. Now when I woke up in the morning, I again saw that Act indicator was blinking and connection was alive! And poof, there goes my 100 MB more!

I checked my scheduler, job ran perfectly, log certifies that. Checked my firewall, there was no network activity at that time! But BB usage portal says that it was continuously connected till 9AM (the time when I switched it off!).

I have checked my scripts, it works fine, scheduler works fine then what is the problem?
Is BSNL playing tricks on me?
Or I am just too noob to understand it?

So the ultimate solution is pulling off the plug from the socket? Or there is a more technical solution to this?

Guys help.

Logik

well i have BSNL BB since 06-06. initially there was no problem with the usage. I only surf on my net mostly with plan 250. i am so handy with the use that i almost conusmes the excat Bandwidth alloted to me. but from last few moths my something is going terribly wrong. i found that there is a excess usage recorded even if i am not using BB in that period. i am 1000% sure that my PC have nothing like virus,trojan,adwares. but now after few visits to this forum i realised that some thing is not ok with BSNL BB. urs post added confirmation to my doubt. now i am gonna ask about this **** to local SDV. will update the status later

Logik

& to the height i found that most time the data link jus keep blinking even if ur PC is not on.

whitestar_999

instead of turning off the system you should turn off the modem or reboot it if you are using always on or even bridge mode.also match your system clock to standard time(using some news channel) & then turn on modem at 2:05AM & reboot/off the modem at 7:55AM.use a script to first reboot the modem at 2:05AM then use another script to connect to bsnl both using task scheduler at an interval of 2 min.

kde

1. Now I am using PPPoE as I mentioned.
2. I have that kind of buffer on both side.

Any other suggestion guys?
Something concrete?
Or at least a pointer to where I can escalate this issue?

whitestar_999

download telnet script from RapidShare: 1-Click Webhosting

Extract it to a folder e.g. C:\tst using winzip/winrar or whatever you prefer. In the folder that you extracted tst10.exe, make a new notepad file (right click > New > text document). Name it reboot.txt. .Open it and type the following lines. Remember to keep the quote" marks in this text file!.

192.168.1.1 23
WAIT "Login"
SEND "your_login_id\m"
WAIT "Password"
SEND "your_pass\m"
WAIT ">"
SEND "reboot\m"
WAIT ">"


Replace in your_login_id with ur id (default admin) & password (default admin)

Now open Control Panel and open Scheduled Tasks. Add Scheduled Task. Follow the instructions. Browse to the directory you extracted tst10.exe to, and open it. Give a name to this task (only for your convenience, can be anything) and choose how often you want the reboot (daily/weekly/what?). Choose the time you want reboot to occur. If you are setting this up on a particular WinXP user account, you may be asked for your XP user password. OK, when the task is created and appears in Scheduled Tasks, right click on it and click on Properties. On the Task tab you will see "Run", where the location of tst10.exe woold be present already. At the end of this line, outside the quotes, add /r:reboot.txt so it looks like
"C:\tst10.exe" /r:reboot.txt

tell me if it works for you as it works for some & not for others.i think it depends on which modeem you have.

kde

Well this script won't work for me as I am using MT841 but the command that works for me is:

And I am doing similar kind of thing but instead of restarting the router I am disabling the PPPoE connection, advantage is even if you restart there is a chance that to keep alive your connection, your router will send and receive some amount of data so instead I'm killing the connection.

So I am first disabling the connection just before 2 AM and enabling it just after 2 AM then let it continue to disable it again just before 8 AM. It's tried and tested and it works (at least in normal hours!).

But only problem is BSNL broadband meter isn't registering the connection termination and its recording bandwidth usage even after my system is turned off!

whitestar_999

you are disabling the modem's inbuilt ppoe dialler right?or you are just disabling the windows network connection.

kde

Just PPPoE dialer!

Nagan

Well folks BSNL is upto strange things.Has there been any posts regarding "BRIDGE" & "PPOE" in this site for a technical briefing and usefulness?

carbon

i tried the script along with the reboot text... i had put my sytem on standby... but after the script woke up the pc .. i still have the same ip address....help me..

kde

Try to execute the command in command prompt first.
See if it at all works for your modem.
Because for some modem it might be different.

Try logging in your modem by using this command:

whitestar_999

during heavy usage time i.e usually saturday & sunday it happens to me that even after turning off & on the modem i couldn't get a new IP.however it usually works at other times.try to schedule your tasks with atleast 1 min time interval.i.e your modem took atleast 30-40 seconds to redial if in pppoe mode so try 90 seconds difference between swithcing off the modem & then again reconnecting using task scheduler & see if it helps.

ozdesi

I usually run the script twice at 2AM and twice at 8AM with 5 mins difference, to avoid any errors. My modem generally reboots and goes online in 13 seconds.