need Easy switching off/on of Wireless function on Netopia 1247

William Powell wrote: »

I bought a box of 4 remote controlled plug switches from Lidl for 20euro a while back (Maplin and others do them for 30-40euro) and all my computer gear is now plugged in using them. Bit more extreme than a batch file (try using telnet from within the batch file) but I can now power down stuff I don't use in a logical order.

/Edit I should have mentioned the real advantage of the remote control plugs is not having to crawl around under my desk to switch things off.

Are these remote control switches not wireless?

@Op, don't be so paranoid, You'll not fry Your kids. Do You have a mobile phone? this is the biggest source of electro smog and You probably have one with You at all times.

Its a bit tricky and my method is a bit messy but I've got it working here now on an XP machine and a Netopia Router (telnet prompt says its a Netopia-3000/20674000.)

The router was setup with a password of password you'll need to change the text files to include your own password and if necessary the logon username which in this case is admin.

First you need a Telnet scripting tool the one I used was at http://www.theworldsend.net/TST.zip

Next create a folder and in it put the unzipped tst10.exe then create 5 empty files and call them off.bat, on.bat, output.txt, scrptoff.txt and scrpton.txt

The off and on bat files are the batch files you'll run to switch the wireless on and off.

In the off.bat file we put the line:
tst10.exe /r:scrptoff.txt /o:output.txt

In the on.bat file we put the line:
tst10.exe /r:scrpton.txt /o:output.txt

In the scrptoff.bat we put:
192.168.1.254 23
WAIT "login:"
SEND "admin\m"
WAIT "Password:"
SEND "password\m"
WAIT ">"
SEND "configure \m"
WAIT ">"
SEND "wireless\m"
WAIT ">"
SEND "option\m"
WAIT ">"
SEND "set off\m"
WAIT ">"
SEND "save\m"
WAIT ">"
SEND "exit\m"
WAIT ">"
SEND "restart\m"
WAIT ">" edited as missed out in previous edit.

where 192.168.1.254 is the IP address of the router 23 is the default telnet port
login: is the login prompt you see when you telnet to the router
admin is the username
Password is the password prompt (note its all case sensitive) you see when you telnet to the router
password is the password
configure
etc comands to configure the wireless as being off and then save the settings then restart with the new settings

output.txt is a file that contains the output of the commands if there is a problem check whats in this file for whats been going on.

I'll leave you to work out your own script file for switching wireless back on.

btw not fully tested as I'm not 100% sure you don't need to send a reboot command to load the saved config...... will check and update.

Forgot you need to restart these routers to load the new config so restart added and tested with a wireless laptop and not just lookd in GUI to see if its working. If you have no password on the router you don't need line 2-7 in scrptoff.txt, just login with telnet and see what promt you get to see what first send you need is probably >.

Appologies to anyone who tried that script above as I’ve noticed that it don’t work. My bad I’ve got a new mouse with really sensitive side buttons that are set to go back to the previous webpage and I keep going back a page while editing so made a mess of it. I’ve updated it yet again and hope it’s now correct. I definitely does work and can be modified for any router that allows telnet access which is just about all of them.