Remotely restart FIOS (MI424WR) Router

Question

My router frequently slows speeds to a crawl or stops working. 
Does the router have an easy way to do this, or has anyone came up with a script to: automatically login remotely to reboot the router?
The router doens't have SSH and I refuse to use telnet. I'm gonna try to use linux/curl to script the behavior of logging in and clicking the reboot router link. 

Answer 1

I have the same problem and have to reboot my gen 3 actiontec router every few days as my upload speeds come to a crawl, oddly download speeds are fine.   So here is what I ended up doing.  This is from a Windows 7 64 bit PC and this automtically reboots the fios actiontec gen 3 router every night.  The PC that runs this script needs to be powered on at the time this script runs.
1) Enabled Telent Access for Local Access Only (that means while only on my local network).  I did  this by
a) login with browser to 192.168.1.1 with admin id and password
b) Go to Advanced .. Local Administration ....  Allow local telnet access ... Using Primary Telnet Port (23)
2) Download Telnet Scripting Tool a.k.a TST10.exe from http://www.theworldsend.net/download.php?get=TST10​&extension=zip
3) I unziped this download and placed the file TST10.exe file from the  TST10.zip in this directory
"F:\My Documents-James\Dropbox\Dropbox\reboot-router"
4) I enabled Telnet  Client on the Windows 7 PC I am running this from by turing on the telnet client windows feature
. Here is how to do that
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/​articles/910.how-to-enable-telnet-client-in-window​...
5) I created this script and called it "reboot-router.txt"  and placed in the same folder as the tst10.exe program.  Here are the exact contents of this file, except replace "admin" with the administrator  id if you changed it on your router (I did) and place the password for this admin id (fios admin password) on the 5th line of the script
192.168.1.1
WAIT "Username:"
SEND "admin\m"
WAIT "Password:"
SEND "enteryouradminpassswordhere\m"
WAIT ">"
SEND "system reboot\m"
WAIT ">"
6) Now from a command prompt I would run this command
tst10.exe /r:reboot-router.txt
This would reboot the router.  Now the challenge was to get this program to run automatically with "parameters" via windows scheduler.  I could not get that to work for some reason via the add arguments.  So I had to create a batch file.
7) Create a batch file called "reboot-router.bat" and I placed it in the same folder with the .txt file and .exe file
"F:\My Documents-James\Dropbox\Dropbox\reboot-router".  Here are the exact contents of this .bat file. 
title reboot router
F:
cd "F:\My Documents-James\Dropbox\Dropbox\reboot-router"
@echo:
sleep 2
tst10.exe /r:reboot-router.txt /o:output.txt /m
@echo:
8) Create a windows task to run every day at 4 am to run this reboot-router.bat file.  Here is how I did that
a)Right Click My Computer from desktop ....
b) Click Manage (to be at Computer Management) ...
c) Click Task Scheduler under System tools
d) Under actions on right side click "Create a basic task"
e) give it a name such as reboot router..
f) click Next
g) Keep Daily radio button checked and click Next
h) select the time you want to have this run and keep other defaults of recur every day "1"  and Start date
i) Select "Start a program"  for "What actions do you want the task to perform"
j) For Program or Script click the browse button and point it to reboot-router.bat
in my case it was "F:\My Documents-James\Dropbox\Dropbox\reboot-router\rebo​ot-router.bat"
k) click Next
l) give it name
9) You are now done!!!!
I tested this at step 6 to make sure I had everything working
Good luck to everyone, James Stroud