automate 4g usb dongle connection / disconnection

[ericch51]

hello i am considering buying usb 4G dongle to plug it into laptop, but first looking for a solution to be able to change IP address every X minutes. If I turn off the dongle and turn it on again, it will reconnect to the 4G network and get a new IP address. Do you know how I can automate this? Is there a windows program to turn the dongle off and on again every X minutes? Thank you !!

 

[Gogol]

The easiest way without hardware modification would be to reboot the machine on a schedule. It might sound idiotic if you connect the dongle to a laptop, but it is a feasible solution if you connect it to a sbc for example a raspberry pi, and then use the pi to create a wireless network (or use it's lan port) or something. For scheduling the reboot, use crontab.

Alertnatively, look for a 4g router that can do auto reboot. It will be a more robust solution, but it will definitely cost more than a pi.

 

[Brickbat1]

Run batch script "Rasdial connection-name disconnect" and next line, "Rasdial connect".

This just off my memory, might be a little different. Can't know until I can check up what I used to do when I did do this with 4g modems. Can also iterate the sleep (x) amount of time in a loop in the batch script.

Cheers.

 

[madacot233]

Automate switching to 3G then back to 4G to assign a new ip

 

[ericch51]

Run batch script "Rasdial connection-name disconnect" and next line, "Rasdial connect".

This just off my memory, might be a little different. Can't know until I can check up what I used to do when I did do this with 4g modems. Can also iterate the sleep (x) amount of time in a loop in the batch script.

Cheers.

Thanks

 

[ericch51]

Automate switching to 3G then back to 4G to assign a new ip

thank you but how to do that?

 

[M4DM4X]

I'd like to do the same but with a phone used as a hotspot, to change ip every x minutes. But no solution since you can't activate/deactivate plane mode without rooting the phone.

 

[achiever2011]

Run batch script "Rasdial connection-name disconnect" and next line, "Rasdial connect".

This just off my memory, might be a little different. Can't know until I can check up what I used to do when I did do this with 4g modems. Can also iterate the sleep (x) amount of time in a loop in the batch script.

Cheers.

Did not understand anything.

 

[Brickbat1]

I'd like to do the same but with a phone used as a hotspot, to change ip every x minutes. But no solution since you can't activate/deactivate plane mode without rooting the phone.

You can. With Autoinput and Tasker apps.

But it's messy though. And whole phone has to be dedicated to it

 

[ericch51]

I'd like to do the same but with a phone used as a hotspot, to change ip every x minutes. But no solution since you can't activate/deactivate plane mode without rooting the phone.

indeed, I made this system with an old android phone and the application "automate" (and you need android < 6)...and now i would like to do the same with a usb 4g dongle

Edit : I think you can do this with the MacroDroid app on an unrooted phone ...

 

[Tahx]

What dongle do you have? I used to do that on mine

 

[ericch51]

Quel dongle as-tu ? je faisais ça sur la mienne

I haven't bought a dongle yet