gbaygon / recon

A small swift script that monitors wifi and resets the connection if lost, for unreliable routers. Runs on Mac OS X.

recon

A small swift script that monitors wifi and resets the connection if lost, for unreliable routers.

Code is commented and should be self explanatory.

It has no external dependencies.

You can run it doing:

swift recon/main.swift

or archive it with xcode to get a binary.

you may need to run it with "sudo" if you experience problems.

Behavior

The script fetches a known web page (google.com by default), if something fails it will turn down the wifi interface and turn it on back again.

Motivator

With unreliable internet providers and/or bad routers the internet connection may timeout after a couple minutes of usage, restarting the wifi interface seems to solve it. I got tired of doing it manually.

Output

The script output is very simple

. pinging server

# connection error, will reconnect

! reconnection error