Program to read Homehub ADSL data?

I've only been on BT about 6 weeks and am not happy. At first the line speed was 2.5Mb (about as expected for my rural location) but it has progressively dropped until it's now 250k (!) . The upload speed has stayed constant at 375k.

Anyway, I've called BT, who sent an Openreach engineer. He checked the line and on his test got a dsl connection rate of 4700k. Although he didn't find a problem, he did disconnect an old extension line and upgraded the faceplate.

After he plugged the homehub 2 back in, that also started with a connection rate 4700k, but has, over the last 3 hours, droppe, first to about 2700k, now to 2100k, and I fear it's going to continue dropping back down to 256k (which is where it was yesterday!) Obviously, 'speedtester.bt.com' reports that the IP profile is currently 250k!

Anyway, what I'm looking for is a program or script to read the ADSL parameter from the hub so I can record them at, for example, 5 minute intervals automatically and check how the errors clock up - naturally, during his 5 minute test, the engineer saw no errors!

I used to be able to do this for an old Conexant router, by connecting using the URL "http://admin:password@router/adsl.htm" in a Perl script which then processed the output html. This method doesn't seem to work for the homehub so I need a different way to send the password.

Does anyone know of a program or script to do this?

Otherwise I'll have to see whether I can construct it myself.

I think I am right in saying current Home Hibs are 2-wire 2700HGVs?

In which case download RouterStats Lite from here. (Scroll down the page past the full product).

Router drop-down list on the setup screen.

The graphs are automatic and saved at intervals to the product folder. For your purposes also turn on logging to file.

Edited by RobertoS (Wed 13-May-09 22:47:54)

Unfortunate Routerstats-lite doesn't work with the Homehub V2 and the notes on the website indicate that it can't. For login, it requires that the router use a standard login prompt and not a web page - the Homehub V2 uses a webpage!

In fact, the sequence I've found is that if you try to connect to the stats page

http://bthomehub.home/bb_dsl.lp?be=1&l0=2&l1=2&l2=1&...

... the hub actually directs you to "/login.lp" to prompt for the password with a page which makes use of javascript to hash the result with (amongst other things) a one-time key and then redirects back to the page requested!

Very much over the top if you ask me!

Anyway, it just makes the programming more interesting!

Thanks anyway.

BTW, my DSL connection rate seems to be holding at 2176kps. Hopefully the IP profile will be raised from 250k some time soon!