Auto-connect Download scheduler

Auto-connect Support page

** Note** : New version Windows 7 compatible

Plz when you notice any bugs, report it to me asap so that I can fix them before many people download the buggy version.

Auto Connect Download scheduler can be used to automate the way you connect to internet. Automate your download tasks by scheduling them, so that you can sleep in peace!

………..DOWNLOAD ………..  DOWNLOAD Always ON version ………

Note :

Auto-connect Download Scheduler by S.K.Aijazuddin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 India License.

Features:

Ideal for limited bandwidth users who download during happy hours.

> New single Window GUI for easy operation.

> Compatible with Windows 7 too

> Schedule system wakeup, broadband connect and disconnect tasks.

> Schedule application run tasks, application close tasks.

> Schedule system sleep task.

> Supports Always on type connections too.

Auto connect is a 32-bit program which have been tested on windows XP.

Compatible with , XP, Vista , Windows 7.

For first time users:

If you are running this application for the first time, follow this procedure –

Note: It is to be taken care that while scheduling tasks, the time is in 24 hours format and also that the default date shown is date today. Hence, if you are scheduling a task which is to take place tomorrow morning at 2 am, remember to change the date a day ahead.

And it is obvious that if time is already past 12 midnight, and a task to be run at 2am, date need not be changed.

• Enter all the data as instructed. Time is in 24 Hrs format.

• The tasks are arranged as per order, so time can be entered accordingly easily.
• Always ON users can download the Always ON version, where in support for modem reboot is provided.

Caution: After scheduling the downloads, minimize the window, DON’T close it. Also, don’t TURN OFF your PC, hibernate it, so that it can wake up at scheduled time. Turned off PCs cant be waken up. By default, when you install the application, hibernation is turned on. To hibernate, click on turn off button in star menu and when the window appears, press hold the SHIFT key, the stand buy button changes to hibernate. Now holding the shift key, press the hibernate button to hibernate.

Caution: Windows 7 users need to disable the “Require password on wakeup” option in power options. In Windows XP, this feature is disabled on own, but due to security policies of Windows 7, you have to do it manually.

Tweak you torrent client:-

• Open your torrent client and go to settings\options. In TASK settings, select the option – ” Avoid system entering sleep\suspend mode when task running “. Apply. This will prevent your system from going to standby or hibernation when it’s idle during downloads.

• Also in the same section, select the auto-resume tasks at program startup. This will make tasks start downloading when your PC wakes up at scheduled time and runs the client.

• Also, go to built-in scheduler of bitcomet and set the download schedule time, like enable downloads during 2am to 8 am, and disable during the rest, this is for happy hours users. This will avoid downloads to run during off the happy hours period, even if you let the client run.

Note: When you add torrents, select the download now option or start the pending downloads after setting the schedule, later exit the client, with tasks still set as running, this will make sure that the tasks  auto resume when PC wakes up and runs the application.

Since you set the download schedule in the client scheduler, though you start the tasks, download doesn’t start. Also, you can do this with internet disconnected too; the motive is to keep the tasks started before exiting the application, so that they auto resume on wake up.

Download Auto-connect:-

Latest version Auto connect Version 3.0 Beta

• Single window version ( Beta release)
• Compatible with Windows 7

…….. Download from here. ……… Download Always ON version …….

Download your modem restart modules-

Note: Due to issues in Telnet with Windows 7, reboot modules doesn’t work on Windows 7.

• UT Starcom:  UT300R2U and WA3002G4
• Huawei : MT880
• Huawei : MT882

Note: Just modem reboot modules alone isnt the solution, even the always ON users must have auto-connect main software to run these modules at scheduled time.

Change log:

V2.7

• Bug fixed in task deletion feature.

V2.6

• Bug fixed in task deletion feature.

V2.5

• Added task cancelling feature to delete old tasks.

V2.4 :

• Fixed bug which didn’t allow spaces in connection names.
• Corrected little details in help and in GUI.
• Altered the GUI for more convenience.

V 2.3 :

• Added sleep tasks.
• Improved modules for always on type connections.
• Added help and created support page.

V2.2-

• Added user data correction
• Added support for always on modems
• Added multiple tasks creation feature

V2.1-

• Added internet disconnect task feature
• Minor bugs fixed

V2.0-

• First version with GUI.
• Beta release and limited fucntionality.

V1.2.2-

• Corrected false positives with few antiviruses due to packaging softwares.

V1.1-

• Corrected some major bugs and improved functionality

V1.0-

• First release of Auto-connect.
• Featured DOS interface, which was complex, though worked.

Vote of thanks:

Special mention of Whim from AutoIT support forum who helped me out often in the journey to stable version.

Thanks to Waseem, Shoieb and Rizwan Ali for having tested my modem reboot modules on their PCs.