[BASH]Reboot ziggo modem Cisco EPC3925 & 3928

---

Following bash reboot’s your modem.

Create a new .sh file and paste following code

sudo nano restart_modem.sh

CODE:

#!/bin/bash

Modem_Adres="192.168.178.1" #default gateway
Modem_Gebruiker="ziggo" #username
Modem_Wachtwoord="draadloos" #password

curl -s -L -c /var/tmp/modem_reboot_cookie.txt --referer http://$Modem_Adres/login_zig.asp -d "Zigloginnaam=$Modem_Gebruiker" -d "Zigpassword=$Modem_Wachtwoord" -d "login=Log+In" http://$Modem_Adres/goform/login_zig > /dev/null
curl -s --cookie /var/tmp/modem_reboot_cookie.txt --referer http://$Modem_Adres/Devicerestart.asp -d "mtenRestore=Device+Restart" -d "devicerestart=1" http://$Modem_Adres/goform/Devicerestart > /dev/null

Then, make it executable:

sudo chmod +x restart_modem.sh

Edit; added -silent to curl so it doesnt spit output to pimatic log.

Thx for sharing

Nice script. Thanks.

It works great. As this modem/router is actually a lousy modem/router I had to reboot it about once week manually. I can do that now every night, not from pimatic but from crontab.

Edit: I have an EPC 3928 instead of an EPC 3925. You might edit your first post to add that as well (to the title).

@Harry-van-der-Wolf said in [BASH]Reboot ziggo modem Cisco EPC3925 & 3928:

Nice script. Thanks.

It works great. As this modem/router is actually a lousy modem/router I had to reboot it about once week manually. I can do that now every night, not from pimatic but from crontab.

Edit: I have an EPC 3928 instead of an EPC 3925. You might edit your first post to add that as well (to the title).

Added.

I use this together with a speedtest te recognize how slow my network is, and thus reboot it if needed.

Off-topic:
Using torrents and binary news group downloading most of the time cause this issue.
The torrents use of course a lot of open connections which use RAM. Upon closing the connection the RAM is supposed to be freed again. A lot of modem/routers don’t do this correctly. Too many (left) open connections combined with too little memory slows down your router.
Third-part firmware like DD-WRT and OpenWRT do this very nicely but I can’t install that on the cisco.

I had the same problem with slowdown, I put my Ziggo modem/router in bridge mode and put my own router behind it and no more slowdowns.

I am already thinking it over for a very long time to exactly do that. Problem is that my house is somewhat older and one of the first with concrete walls and ceilings. The concrete contains lots and lots of steel, more than nowadays is used. It is almost a “Faraday cage”. That causes issues with my wifi, with my 2.4GHz (mysensors) and 433MHz sensors. And on top of that: I have only 3 cable trays in my house which are already occupied.
So my “old” router is already in bridge mode on my first floor.
It means that I have to buy another router if I want to bypass my ziggo modem/router.