Same as before, my modem carrier provides a fast internet for just a fraction of cents, but problem is this is only for midnight which lasts from 1AM to 5AM. And who’s going to wait and sacrifice their sleep for this? But well, there is way to turn on PC, connect to modem, reconnect if connection is lost, download and shutdown all by computer itself…and you can set yourself at pace, snoring and just let your computer does the work. Alright, let’s get started!
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Why you need this:
1. Because you don’t want to stay awaked full night for download process.
2. Internet is unstable, so you want your PC to reconnect automatically until it’s connected
3. You want your PC to download at a specified time
4. And when it’s time, you want your PC to power off, without you doing anything.
What you need:
1. Modem, connection profile
2. Keyboard, mouse
3. Patience
4. PC with compatible hardware
5. Ability to type as exactly as I wrote
Difficulty: Moderate
Time: Approx. 15 minutes (with reading)
Demonstrated situation: Free internet from 01:00-05:00h daily.
1- Set up a scheduled power on
We’ll set up an automatic power on for your PC. This stuff needs compatible BIOS (motherboard) to do the job. But don’t worry, if you don’t have, we have an alternative in final section of this article, however, you should proceed to the next section, Setup Connection Profile…just skip this section only. SETUP A SCHEDULED POWER ON is the ONLY feature that is hardware-dependent.1- Restart your PC
2- Press DEL when your screen says “Press DEL to enter SETUP”. According to different PC configuration, some PC might want you to press F1, F10, or F12.
3- Navigate to “Power” tab which is usually down the screen
4- Select “Everyday”
5- Choose “Time Alarm”. Change the number to your preferred power on time. Since my free internet is from 1AM, so I choose 00:55AM.
6- When you’re done, press “ESC” and it will ask for confirmation, so press YES then.
7- Restart your PC.
Now your PC will power on at your specified time. If your BIOS does not support this, we’ll have alternative in the end of this article.
2- Set up connection profile, reconnect when connection is dropped
We’ll prepare our connection profile and set up a reconnection when internet is disconnected so that no matter what, connection will always remain.8- Click on network icon on the lower right of task bar and right click on your preferred connection profile. In this case, I right-click on “smart” and choose “Properties”
9- When properties dialogue box appears, click on “Option” tab
10- Uncheck “Prompt for name and password”, “Includes Windows logon domains”, “Prompt for phone number”.
11- Change “Redial attempts” to 99, choose “Time between redial attempts” and in my case, I choose 3 seconds so it reconnects just after connection is lost.
12- Check “Redial if line is dropped” and click “OK”
By doing this, your computer will try to connect to the internet until it get connected. Plus, it will reconnect itself should the connection drops somewhere in the middle of your free internet period.
3- Schedule internet connection
13- Click Start Menu orb, and write “Task Scheduler”. When you find it, open it.14- On the right sidebar, click on “Create basic task”
15- In “Name”, write “Dial”. Click Next
16- Set schedule behavior. In my case, I choose “Daily” because I want to connect every day. Click Next.
17- Set time to connect to the internet. I choose 1:00AM. Click Next.
18- Choose “Start a program”
19- In the “Program/Script”, write “rasphone -d smart” (without quotation marks) where smart is your connection profile’s name. Change it accordingly. Press Enter.
20- When it ask you to confirm, click “Yes”
21- Click Next, then Finish.
4- Schedule download
Almost every download program on the market has scheduled download feature that enables its user to specify a time to download. Now, we are going to demonstrate on how to schedule download on software called Internet Download Manager. Different software has different way to do it.Now that I have unfinished downloads queuing up in my list, I want ones to resume at 1:05AM.
22- Open Internet Download Manager.
23- Click “Download” and then “Scheduler”
24- Here are pretty useful options you can set according to your needs. We’re going through just some of these.
I check “Start download at” and specify time to 01:05AM.
I choose “Daily” and check all days in the week.
I check “Stop download at” and set the time to 05:00AM.
There is even an option to shutdown computer once downloads finish. But I’m NOT going to check it because I have two softwares which handle downloads at the same time and I don’t one of them to stop one another. And we still have Scheduled Shutdown anyway.
By the way, you can schedule a program to start using Task Scheduler as we did in Schedule Connection. For example, I pre-set my uTorrent to download once it’s started. So I just have to schedule this program to start at 01:05AM and it will start download from the time it’s launched automatically.
5- Schedule shutdown
We have set every download task already, but we need to power off everything (and our PC) in a specific time so that we save energy, and we disconnect at the same time too! Let’s get to this last step.25- Start Task Scheduler as in step 13
26- Create Basic task and name it “down”. Click Next.
27- Set it to Daily. Click Next.
28- Set shutdown time. For my case, 05:05AM. Click Next.
29- Choose “Start a program”. Click Next.
30- In Program/Script write “shutdown –f” (without quotation mark). –f is an argument to force all programs to end and shutdown. Click Next.
31- When it asks you, click “Yes”
32- Click Finish.
We’re done!! Congratulation your PC is set to start, connect, download and shutdown at a specific time!!
Cancelling everything
If you want to cancel everything, first go to the Task Scheduler and delete “down” and “dial” tasks. And in your download manager software, cancel scheduled download.Alternative for incompatible motherboard with automatic power on
If you cannot turn on your PC on a specific time, you might need to turn in on manually and leave it on before you go to bed. But hold on! You don’t have to waste that much amount of energy! You can put your computer to Sleep or Hibernation, and set internet connection to wake your PC up first before it connects. Here’s how:Considered we have done every step above… except the first section (from step 8-32).
1- Open Task Scheduler as in step 13.
2- Right click on “Dial” task and choose Properties
3- In the “Condition” tab, check “Wake the computer to run this task”.
So that even your PC is in sleep mode, this task will wake your PC to connect to the internet. But it works ONLY in Sleep and Hibernation, and NOT SHUTDOWN. So just put your computer to sleep, and not shutdown before you go to bed.
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Turn on PC, Connect modem, Reconnect, Download, and Shutdown – Automatic by itself! by Sovannvathana is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://saidbyvann.blogspot.com/2012/09/autointernet.html.
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