heya bright boys, thanks a ton , but as i mentioned , its a quality dummy here, most of the advice sounds to me like in italian with a mongolian accent spoken by a tamilian, to a swahillie... kindly elaborate ....... yeah , i am using xp (ordinary one, nothing fancy) and yeah i am just switching a relay to reset the power line to the modem ....... the autodownloader program gives me an option to run something during long waits, and i brilliantly found (& use) a "cd eject and close " thing and i bend up a piece of a crap wire, glued a little relay (yanked it out of a dead ups), sneaked up its 12 volts input from the floppy connecter, and its output to the powerline of the modem ......
a few months ago, i used to send a beep command (forgot how i used to do it) yanked off the little speaker on motherboard, used that pulse to do the same.
Now when i google around and rake my non-electronic-ally-inclined brain, i see a lot of the same stuff like sending a pulse from a serial / parallel port etc ..... but as i mentioned above its all the language prob ( mentioned earlier)
but thanks anyway buddies , for being helpful and considerate ....... and yeah guys, tell me ----- truely does it really matter how long the darn pulse has to be active .... dosent the relay do its job even if its pretty small ..... anyway u r the boss .... and my ears are all clean and wide open .............
thx reloadron ------- wonderful link .... and seems english too ...... haha