Trying to get Wake On LAN over the internet (WAN?) to work

[xjokru]

I am trying to use Wake On Lan, but from a remote IP, over the internet, to turn my PC on.

I have enabled all of the necessary things in windows and BIOS:
-deep power off disabled
-ethernet adapter allowed to wake the device
-etc.

The green light of my PC's ethernet cable even keeps blinking when the PC is off.
But I seem to have run into a problem with the port required for WOL not staying open; I have the port forwarding rule set up in my router (see below) and it works when I open up say Depicus Wake On Lan Monitor. My PC even wakes up after the monitor has been active, but only for about 5 minutes, I assume this is due to some clever port opening and closing going on.

Now my question is, is there any way to disable this kind of closing/smart opening or whatever, as my router seems to close port when the PC is turned off, defeating the whole purpose of WOL over WAN or whatever it's called.

Could a broadcast address, instead of the direct static address of my PC work? How would I use said address? What else can I do?

Any help is appreciated and sorry if this is a stupid question.

My PC:
CPU: Intel Core i5-4440
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB
MBD: Acer Predator G3-605
Ethernet adapter is by intel

My router:
Elisa (finnish ISP) version of ZyXEL VMG3925-B10B

 

[xjokru]

P.S. I was thinking of another possible workaround. I haven't tried it personally (although I could if given time), but seems to me it would work provided you have and can set that BIOS option I spoke of earlier, where the system will automatically boot when power returns from a prior loss of power.

Get yourself one of those smart plugs.

https://www.amazon.com/WeMo-Switch-Smart-Works-Alexa/dp/B00BB2MMNE

Doesn't have to be that particular one. Just happens to be the one I have. There are a lot of other manufacturers offering similar devices these days, and pretty darn inexpensively. Seen deals lately over at Slickdeals.net for as a little as $10-15 a unit, esp. when sold in multipacks. Just make sure it can accessed remotely, not just locally.

You don't even need WOL capability for this to work. You plug the smart plug into the wall, configure it w/ your wifi router, and plug your PC into the smart plug. Since the smart plug can typically be configured for remote access w/ your smartphone, once you shutdown the PC locally or remotely, you can simply power off the smart plug w/ the smartphone app, wait a few seconds, then power the smart plug back on. And now, because of that BIOS option, it will reboot! In fact, using this technique, you could even recover a hung PC!

Because of advances in devices such as these, we have other options, some that may eventually make the need for WOL/WOW obsolete. Just so long as you have that recovery option in the BIOS.

I grabbed a pair on sale and this seems to work fine. But still kind of want to know about this, oh well, I'm gonna ask in more detail on the ISP forum, thank you.