Can Huawei HG612 be power cycled remotely?

I was given an ECI Openreach modem with my new Zen line. I often work remotely to the office/connection location using an ubiquiti link so not on site sitting beside the modem most of the time.

I didnt fit the ECI as I have a Billion 8800 NL and that lets me remotely log into it and monitor it using DSLStats.

Zen wont raise a fault with Openreach for congestion on the new line without the OR modem being fitted as they tell me Openreach will just blame my Billion. So yesterday I fitted the ECI and left the office. Tonight I have logged into the network at office via my ubiquiti link and found the internet connection is down but because the ECI modem doesnt have any sort of web GUI/interface on it, I cant log into it remotely in order to reboot it in an effort to revive the connection.

Does an unlocked Huawei HG612 provide means to reboot it via its GUI?
If it did, I could use it to satisfy Zen that an Openreach modem is fitted and still retain ability to remotely reboot it.

If the Internet connection is down how do you actually get to the remote modem even if it has remote management, since with no internet access it is not accessible by you across the Internet

I have an ubiquiti wifi link between the remote office and my house so I can get into the network there.

There's a reboot button on the gui but I don't know if it works.

What about a Wemo plug?

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

What about a Wemo plug?

Good call, that would probably work.
They are about £50 a pop though so I would be cheaper buying a Huawei HG612 if that lets me remotely manage it and get any added benefit from that modem matching the providing Huawei cabinet.

Well Pulse8 gave my HG612 a remote kick up the pants when I was 400 miles away and had a problem, so I would say the answer is a definite yes. Does not matter if your remote is up or down, so long as your ISP can access on the normal line.

Are you sure they gave the router a kick rather than the port at the exchange to force a reconnect?

Found an alternative to Wimo called Orbivo for £16.99 on Amazon prime that seem to be easy enough to control via networked PC with a little bit of persuasion so that looks like it will help. Another option at least.

If you're in a tinkering mood, a Raspberry Pi with an Energenie Pi-Mote or Mi|Home board can remotely control sockets via wireless.

I use this setup to turn things on and off remotely.

The Raspberry Pi could run a monitor program which would power cycle the router automatically in the event of a disconnection.

Of course, it's entirely possible that replacing the current modem with a new HG612 will stop lockups anyway.

Thats pretty sweet, I like that. Thanks Sarah!

Obviously cannot be sure what they actually did for the restart, but they had some control remotely to restart things.

Yes there is a working re-boot button under > Maintenance > Device > Reset > 'Please click the Reboot button to reboot the device'.
Reboot
I have used it from my UN-locked HG612 web interface many times on my very long ADSL2 line I use for monitoring 24/7 with DSLstats http://www.s446074245.websitehome.co.uk/index.html

Out of interest about your 'ubiquiti link ' how far does the link go ?, is it a good solid link all the time ?., What model / spec is it ?.

Edited by APTMAN (Wed 13-Jan-16 23:38:26)

Well I fitted the ECI modem to satisfy Zen/OR and it has reduced my Sync speed by 7Mb (according to my most recent BTW TAP3 test) to what my Billion was syncing at.

If I have to keep an Openreach modem on the line, I'll definitely be trying a Huawei HG612!

Thanks APTMAN.

My Ubiquiti link is only about 5km but depending on equipment used they can go much further. I am using a pair of Nanobeam NBE-5AC-19's and they have proven to provide a rock solid connection 24/7 even in heavy rain and gales and sub zero temperatures, so far they have worked great for me.

Forgot to say ... added latency over my wireless link is typically about 2ms. i.e. negligible

Fitting my OR ECI modem added 5ms to 8ms over the Billion it replaced!

Edited by deleted (Fri 15-Jan-16 21:57:42)

In reply to a post by craski:

Fitting my OR ECI modem added 5ms to 8ms over the Billion it replaced!

Is this because you are connected to a Huawei cab but the ECI modem doesn't support G.INP?

[edit] Ah yes, I see you have already said you are on a Huawei cabinet. G.INP it is then

Edited by deleted (Fri 15-Jan-16 23:54:29)

Huawei HG612 purchased from ebay for £21 and unlocked.
Reboot button in GUI works fine. Hopefully the Huawei restores the performance lost when using the ECI modem.

Also got an Orbivo wifi socket and found a neat perl script that allows the socket to be queried and controlled easily from wired devices on same subnet as the socket so it works great to power cycle items remotely.

I get my HG612's off 'Freecycle'

What internet connection are you using ?. ADSL or FTTC etc ?