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:
| Download: | WateenWiMaxKeepAlive.zip |
|---|---|
| Version: | 0.1 |
| Updated: | March 16, 2008 |
| Size: | 190.42 KB |
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April 1st, 2008 at 1:39 pm
i am getting error like “could not find the main class program will exit” please help on this
April 1st, 2008 at 2:15 pm
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.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:38 pm
its working now without any error i will update futrher if i get eny error
thanks tazzix
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:03 am
good to know
May 5th, 2008 at 4:38 am
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.
May 5th, 2008 at 9:35 am
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.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:15 am
Thanks for the instructions, Tazzix! I’ll try it out tomorrow.
May 14th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
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 !
May 14th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
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.
May 14th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
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!
May 15th, 2008 at 5:07 am
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.
July 14th, 2008 at 6:08 am
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…
December 25th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Wateen record hit broadband market causing Etisalat(PTCL) to rollback its broadband infrastructure from pakistan.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
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
August 28th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
I just downloaded the application…I have no idea how to run it..please help
August 28th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
I am using Windows Xp sp3 with Java installed.
October 1st, 2009 at 2:46 pm
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
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:19 am
@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
October 18th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
THANKS A MILLION I HAVE BEEN LOOKING ALL OVER FOR THIS SORT OF STUFF…
October 19th, 2009 at 1:40 am
@A.R.S. You are most welcome.
December 7th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
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
December 7th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
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.
January 21st, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Can i use this application in linux centos Cli Mode interface
February 8th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
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
March 7th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
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.
March 8th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
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.