[SOLVED] Setting up Wake on LAN

[DStruct]

I cannot for the life of me seem to get Wake on LAN setup on my computer.
I want to set it up so that my computer can be switched off, in the soft off state, and that I can remotely turn on my computer from the likes of Team Viewer or Steam Link etc.

I have enabled it on my motherboard, I have done the properties on the LAN adapter to enable it to be woken up with and without the magic packet, I have set team viewer up with the static IP address, checked ports are forwarded in router etc...

I have followed several articles on how to set this up but it just doesnt want to work.

Anyone able to help, maybe point me in the direction of a better guide?

Many thanks

DStruct

 

[Ralston18]

Computer: make, model, hardware specs, and OS?

 

[DStruct]

ASUS Strix B450-F Gaming Motherboard
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU
Windows 10 64bit

 

[bill001g]

Your problem is there is no such thing as wake on WAN.

The short version of why it does not work is the ARP entry is timing out. You would need a router that can set a static ARP and even that is kinda a hack.

The best way I have seen is to get a router that has Wake on Lan support. You remotely get into the router and request it send a real wake on lan packet. I know asus can do this and I have seen it on a couple other brands.

The other common solution people use is to leave a raspberry pi running and you would remotely access the rpi and have it send a wake on lan.

The other way people do this is to use the new fancy power plugs. You can use the bios option to boot on power on.

In general modern computers have very good power save options. The difference between being in low power mode compared to wake on lan is not very much.

 

[DStruct]

OK so I'd rather not be spending any money for this, it's not something I'll be doing often, basically just when I stay at my girlfriends I was wanting to use steam link on a crappy laptop and stream GTA V from my pc to the laptop etc.

What would you say the easiest / free way of doing this would be then if what I wanted to do is not possible with my current hardware.

Put the computer into sleep mode or something?

 

[bill001g]

Just set the power save options in windows. It does stuff like turns off hard drives and reduces the clock speeds to almost zero for the cpu and memory. You have to be a little careful to not let stuff running that does automatic updates or leave web pages open that auto update or have scrolling ads. The computer will be more than happy to increase the speed for these useless operations.

The largest power hogs tend to be the monitor and video card but those both turn off even with most power save options.

 

[SamirD]

Wake on lan is hit or miss even on a local lan so it doesn't surprise me that you're having problems with it remotely. I usually have to hit my thin clients at least 3 times with a magic packet before they wake, sometimes as many as 9. And again this is on a local lan.

 

[DStruct]

Had a little play with the power plans, not sure if thats gonna be the answer for me though, as silly as it sounds but having to manually change things back and fourth like that, I will end up forgetting and try playing a game in power saving mode or something lol.

So on another note with a new question,
because Team Viewer lets me connect remotely to the PC even if the PC is not logged in, as long as it is powered on and on the Windows 10 login screen, it works...... so my question is, I am gonna assume its a yes but ya never know.....

Is leaving the computer idle at the Windows 10 login screen, a good power saving option if I wanted to leave my PC on whilst I am out of the home etc ?

So its going to be a case of... Turn computer on, leave it at login screen then turn the monitor off
or if computers already on...... I would just log out and then turn the monitor off

 

[bill001g]

I forget how active the machine must be for team viewer to work. Obviously the program must have been started. I would experment with the power save option and see which you can use without impacting the teamviewer. The big one tends to be the monitor and if you turn if off the video card will also draw minimal power since it know there is nothing to display.

In general most pc are fairly smart even with no fancy settings. I know mine with no special setting the fans pretty much stop and if you are still using a hard driver I can no longer hear that when the machine is sitting idle and this is with the monitor on and me just doing nothing.

I kinda stopped even worrying about this after I got one of those power plug meter device that tracks usage. The power use was so low when I was not using the machine that it was only tiny cost to leave it on all the time.

 

[USAFRet]

I kinda stopped even worrying about this after I got one of those power plug meter device that tracks usage. The power use was so low when I was not using the machine that it was only tiny cost to leave it on all the time.

Leaving my main system ON 24/7, the time when it is idle amounts to $50 a year in electric. Well worth it for the other benefits that 24/7 brings.