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Reply to post: Re: Long ago.

'Can you just pop in to the office and hit the power button?' 'Not really... the G8 is on'

Dave Pickles
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Re: Long ago.

My turn to say I didn't know they existed...

After a hiccup at my ISP took down my VPN to home ("just reboot the router, sir") while I was 1000 miles away, I built something similar using an Arduino and a GSM modem. An SMS containing the correct password power-cycles the router.

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