Good evening all,
I'm trying to set my PC up for WOL. I know it is a source of perpetual problems, but I feel like I am oh so close.
I have everything configured, after trawling through the many help sites and manuals out there. My LAN card is set to accept magic packets in BIOS and device manager, port is forwarded (and confirmed open by an external application), I can receive external WOL packets sent from my phone using data connection, so definitely coming via WAN. I'm using a sniffer which picks up the packets every time when my PC is turned on.
When I switch it off however, it only works every so often and I can't work out why. It has woken the PC up from shutdown a few times, again using my phone on data, so I know the packet makes it through, but it won't work reliably enough to actually make use of.
I've seen talk of the network adaptor power management options in device manager, but I've tried both enabling and disabling the "Allow the computer to turn this device off to save power" checkbox. If I disable this then the option to allow it to wake the PC greys out anyway.
I'd be really grateful if anyone has any pearls of wisdom.
I'm trying to set my PC up for WOL. I know it is a source of perpetual problems, but I feel like I am oh so close.
I have everything configured, after trawling through the many help sites and manuals out there. My LAN card is set to accept magic packets in BIOS and device manager, port is forwarded (and confirmed open by an external application), I can receive external WOL packets sent from my phone using data connection, so definitely coming via WAN. I'm using a sniffer which picks up the packets every time when my PC is turned on.
When I switch it off however, it only works every so often and I can't work out why. It has woken the PC up from shutdown a few times, again using my phone on data, so I know the packet makes it through, but it won't work reliably enough to actually make use of.
I've seen talk of the network adaptor power management options in device manager, but I've tried both enabling and disabling the "Allow the computer to turn this device off to save power" checkbox. If I disable this then the option to allow it to wake the PC greys out anyway.
I'd be really grateful if anyone has any pearls of wisdom.