A Reboot Script which uses Selenium written in Python to reboot your Telekom Speedport 2i Router
The Speedport Entry 2 is an entry level modem/router produced by "Deutsche Telekom".
This device is quite bad and its performances tend to degrade over time.
The most common solution to this problem is made of several steps:
- Stand up
- Reach the Speedport Entry 2
- Pull the plug
- Wait few seconds
- Plug it back again
- Get back to what we were doing
Although this solution proved to be quite effective, it turned out to be also quite annoying.
For this reason, the "RebootPort" project was born :)
There are different ways to use the RebootPort tool.
The next paragraphs describe the possible uses.
The simplest way to use the RebootPort tools is to manually run the reboot.py python script ( make sure to have python installed ) everytime we start noticing the first signs of slowness in the network. It's important to specify the correct device password for our Speedport router in the script, so that it will be able to succesfully login and reboot our beloved router.
Unfortunately, this solution can be used only before the network becomes so slow to be actually unusable. In this case, only 2 possibilities are left:
- Stand up and follow the "most common solution" steps written above
- Ask someone to perform the "most common solution" steps above
The real (dirty) solution would be preventing the performance degradation by daily rebooting the router.
If in your network there's an always alive and connected linux device or windows computer, you could use it to periodically run the reboot.py python script and automatically reboot the router.