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Comment on Using X10 Home Automation and Linux to manage your home internet connection by ghostmachine

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:39:42 +0000

Great tutorial! I was not able to do all the stuff with the X10 and such, plus I have cable. I ran across this when I was looking for a way to reboot my modem. I am not very good with bash, but I borrowed your connectivity test for my script. It ejects the CD-ROM drive which has a paper clip stuck to it and hits the reset button The reason I am using it though is to change my IP address if need be. Your script is endlessly adaptable though, which is why I like it. I have it test for connectivity before it changes the MAC address so I can make sure that the computer hit the button. Otherwise my internet dies I do appreciate the in-depth explanation a lot as I don’t otherwise know what any of that means! Anybody else who wants to use this portion is welcome to it. All this does is check the internet. You can then do whatever. All credit to Brian though; all I did was cut and paste :p
Kudos!

#!/bin/bash
ERRORS=0
ping -q -c1 -W1 74.125.47.99 &> /dev/null
let “ERRORS = $ERRORS + $?”
ping -q -c1 -W1 65.214.39.56 &> /dev/null
let “ERRORS = $ERRORS + $?”
ping -q -c1 -W1 206.190.60.37 &> /dev/null
let “ERRORS = $ERRORS + $?”
ping -q -c1 -W1 68.1.17.9 &> /dev/null
let “ERRORS = $ERRORS + $?”
ping -q -c1 -W1 1.1.1.1 &> /dev/null
let “ERRORS = $ERRORS + $?”

if [ $ERRORS -eq 4 ]; then
echo Modem Reboot Successful Change MAC
echo ./change_ip
else
echo Connectivity Remains do not change MAC!
echo Die
fi

Comment on Using X10 Home Automation and Linux to manage your home internet connection by Deb Reppenhagen

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:00:42 +0000

Can anyone translate this for use with a plain old windows (XP) PC?

I have COMCAST cable internet. I have it hooked up to my LYNKSIS wireless router. The router has never had a problem. The modem needs to be restarted several times a day on some days but on the average only several times a week. A few times, the modem ran for weeks without a problem. I’ve tried different Modems without result. Calling Comcast does no good. I don’t think they even log these kinds of issues; they’re out of the picture if restarting the modem gets you running again. This has been going on for years.

Comment on Contact by Larry

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:37:40 +0000

Hello Evil One!

First: Mea Culpa! — In August 2007 you posted a comment on my blog at http://www.birdsong.org/ … specifically: http://www.birdsong.org/node/6#comment-25

Alas, I only today found your comment. Because comment moderation is “ON”, it was not visible to others. I’ve moderated it “approved” and it is now visible, just in case you are intersted.

Happy Holidays and warm regards from costal Washington USA.

/lorenzo

Comment on HOW-TO: Microsoft Shadowrun in XP by Baal

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:41:14 +0000

if you get an error in the game.

that your exe is crashed, dont care about.
just klick the game in the bar and go ahead with playing. it makes no difference ingame.

me and a friend get these error after 4minutes playing lan game and nothing changes. you only have to go back to the game and let the error stay in the background.

faithfully
Baal

Comment on HOW-TO: Microsoft Shadowrun in XP by pete

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:10:44 +0000

They have updated shadowrun and now the error says that Reggetvaluew can not be found. any info yet?

Comment on HOW-TO: Microsoft Shadowrun in XP by Brian

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:50:30 +0000

Lasse:
From the other sites i’ve read, this is fairly common. I’ve not had this problem, so i can’t speak to it’s solution. I would encourage you to keep trying - possibly re-install directx.

Comment on HOW-TO: Microsoft Shadowrun in XP by Lasse

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:46:56 +0000

I had the same problems as you, but thanks to you i fixed it But now the game chrashes every 5 min… is there something i can do about it?

Comment on IMMA CHARGIN’ MAH LASER by jake

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:17:07 +0000

this is funny stuff Royal Rainbow

Comment on Using X10 Home Automation and Linux to manage your home internet connection by muffin

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:27:04 +0000

I have a similar problem with my SBC DSL connection (that I am quite happy with, best upload rate for the price). It seems that before the connection crap out entirely it goes though a “fuzzy” period where anything bigger than text only Google is too mangled to be read. Images time out 90% of the time but text will still pop through. IMHO wget-ing something like the Google banner or your local weather stations radar images would be a better test of connectivity than pings. Nice idea though, they should just send one of these out along with the modem.

Comment on Using X10 Home Automation and Linux to manage your home internet connection by Insolence

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:04:06 +0000

Commenting on carlton’s recommendation, I actually did this 4-5 years ago for a client who’s DSL would die about once a week and require me to drive for a hour to mindlessly unplug it for a minute and plug it back up. I used a existing linux server there that was sharing SMB and was their gateway, and made a simple parallel relay. I just wrote a simple script to run every 5 minutes in cron that pinged random reliable sources on the internet (google, msn, etc.) if one failed, it would try two other reliable sources, and if those failed, it would power off the DSL modem for a minute and power it back on. The project in all cost me less than 9 bucks from a local electronics store. Nice quick and dirty hack.

- I