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KeepAlive your Wateen WiMAX connection

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For all Wateen WiMAX users out there in Pakistan, this small desktop utility will keep you logged in without having to relogin or to find out that your connection was down while you were trying to do something and gave up on it. It is very simple and just uses the web interface to log in and check uploaded and downloaded bytes which are shown on the screen, the green / red square is a status check to see if the connection is up or not. You have to define preferences for username, password, always autologin, and refresh time in seconds. Tested on Windows XP, Ubuntu 7.10, MacOS Tiger.
I also have a J2ME version to be used on WIFI enabled cell phones / PDAs but currently no preference changes are implemented so can not make it available for download, if I get more than 10 comments here asking for it, I’ll take out some time to implement it.

Download the desktop version here:

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Download: WateenWiMaxKeepAlive.zip
Version: 0.1
Updated: March 16, 2008
Size: 190.42 KB

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Wateen WiMAX KeepAlive

26 Responses to “KeepAlive your Wateen WiMAX connection”

  1. Umer Says:

    i am getting error like “could not find the main class program will exit” please help on this

  2. tazzix Says:

    Thanks Umer for pointing out the issue, I forgot to add the libs, uncompress into an empty folder and it will work this time, sorry to all who faced this problem.

  3. Umer Says:

    its working now without any error i will update futrher if i get eny error
    thanks tazzix

  4. tazzix Says:

    good to know :)

  5. Saad Says:

    Hi Tazzix. Great app - just what I’ve been looking for for months. However, can you give some instructions on how to install it - especially on a Mac?

    Thans.

  6. tazzix Says:

    Thanks Saad, just unzip the archive into an empty folder, double click on the “Wateen WiMax.jar” file, if that does not work for you, open a terminal, change to the dir you extracted the files to and issue the following command:
    java -jar “Wateen WiMax.jar”

    You may need to install a JRE or JDK if that is not installed already.

  7. Saad Says:

    Thanks for the instructions, Tazzix! I’ll try it out tomorrow.

  8. mat1h Says:

    Its a gr8 app… BUT… how can i know that this app doesnt send logs of my login and pass somehwhere else… in such case it is a very dangerous app !

    Plz do reply cuz this is of real concern to me !

  9. tazzix Says:

    mat1h, I can give you two options:

    1. Use ethereal or wire-shark to check network traffic
    2. don’t use this application

    Do you know Java? Most people downloading this app from here won’t know Java so I have put in a compiled app and not the source code which will make it cumbersome to use for ordinary wateen users. Download an 80 MB JDK and stuff, you want the source code? You just needed to ask politely and not blame me of phishing. I can pay for my Internet and don’t give a %$$#! about your password.

  10. mat1h Says:

    hi, thanks 4 the reply… i’ve just checked your software using ethereal and its seems ok. NO phishing as far as i can see…

    I didnt mean to be rude with you… it was just a question that pops in one’s mind when dealing with such software…

    source code will be highly appreciated…

    Cheers!

  11. tazzix Says:

    mat1h: the problem is if I was doing phishing, will I accept it? And you knew ethereal so it was best for you to try. But anyways, I spent 5 hours on both J2SE and J2ME versions, you pay Rs. 7500/- I’ll give you everything and remove this post from here, then you own it you can make it freeware / addware / shareware or strike a deal with Wateen whatever. Take it or leave it.

  12. Sajid Says:

    works, BUT dies that mean this window has to be open all time?
    there must be option to minimize to system tray…

    and people concerned about their security, install a good firewall, like C.O.M.O.D.O

    to my observation, its not sending any logs or information to other , also it was not detected as virus through my AntiVirus.

    also i am using bandwidth monitor pro, AND wateen also gives you connecting times,
    like
    www.wateen.com/selfcare
    monitor your activity…

    Thanks tazzix for this, really i was looking for this, but still to test in what conditions it work…

  13. Analyzer Says:

    Wateen record hit broadband market causing Etisalat(PTCL) to rollback its broadband infrastructure from pakistan.

  14. Guru Says:

    Hi. I am new to wateen. Please tell me that how can I check my download status. Means how much download quota has been utilized.

    Thanks

  15. radeel Says:

    I just downloaded the application…I have no idea how to run it..please help

  16. radeel Says:

    I am using Windows Xp sp3 with Java installed.

  17. TAimur Says:

    great stuff
    I was thinking of making somthing like that n I guess there is nothing better one can expect
    keep up the good stuff
    wateen should make it part of their deal (ofcourse after paying some deeds to the author of the code) but they are always looking for those extra 2000/year for static IP to avoid this login/logout thingy. cheap people

  18. tazzix Says:

    @TAimur, for the last two days I am unable to access internet.wateen.net and the internet is running fine, so I guess they either fixed it, or this temporary glitch will be fixed to make us login again.

    @radeel, if Java is properly installed, double click on the .jar file

    @ALL, you can see my other post, how I am now using my WIFI router to keep my connection alive, so not really using this anymore

  19. A.R.S. Says:

    THANKS A MILLION I HAVE BEEN LOOKING ALL OVER FOR THIS SORT OF STUFF…

  20. tazzix Says:

    @A.R.S. You are most welcome.

  21. Zohaib Says:

    Hi,
    I just saw your application today when i finished mine one for public :)
    I also coded simple auto-logger in c# when i posted it on wired Pakistan someone told me that he is using this application from last two months, well i dont meant to hijack your blog, just telling tht i also made this.
    Thanks
    Regards
    Zohaib

  22. tazzix Says:

    Sure Zohaib,

    You can even put a link here if you want to, there is nothing stopping anyone from doing anything similar or better. I use a lot of Wifi devices and even this software was not fulfilling my needs so I am using dd-wrt on a router which is basically linux and configured it to keep me logged in or use the button on the device for login / logout it is pretty cool.

  23. khalid Says:

    Can i use this application in linux centos Cli Mode interface

  24. tazzix Says:

    Khalid, not really but Linux is even better, check out my other post regarding router keep-alive, that router is using linux so you can use the same cron job on your linux machine :)

  25. mustafa Says:

    for linux/ubuntu users: add this command you to somewhere in your startup. /etc/rc.local or gnome or kde’s startup.

    curl -d “__LASTFOCUS=&__VIEWSTATE=%2FwEPDwUKMjEzNjAyOTAxNw9kFgICAw9kFgQCAQ9kFgJmD2QWAgIBD2QWAgIBDw8WBB4EVGV4dGUeB1Zpc2libGVoZGQCCw8PFgIeDU9uQ2xpZW50Q2xpY2sFDW9wZW5DcHVybCgnJylkZBgBBR5fX0NvbnRyb2xzUmVxdWlyZVBvc3RCYWNrS2V5X18WAQUMSW1hZ2VCdXR0b24xpngAqxgr5Hm7fmrH6aw9ncz59IY%3D&__EVENTTARGET=&__EVENTARGUMENT=&__EVENTVALIDATION=%2FwEWBAL3r5aFDAKl1bK4CQK1qbSRCwLSwpnTCEelMrk%2BPrgR%2FoWtjio%2FjnwhVL%2Bb&txtUsername=YOUR_USERNAME%40wateen.net&txtPassword=YOUR_PASSWORD&ImageButton1.x=36&ImageButton1.y=11″ http://10.16.128.199/BHLogin.aspx

    replace your username and password with YOUR_USERNAME and YOUR_PASSWORD in above command.

  26. tazzix Says:

    Mustafa, thanks a lot dude, they changed the thing, my router has wget on it so I am going to use –post-data with it to work and -O /dev/null to avoid writing to disk.

    Thanks.

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