This used to work very well but it seems microsoft drivers can set thing in the BIOS that mess up WoL. Microsoft and BIOS manufactures have implemented a bunch of microsofts sleep/suspend stuff. Not sure if other routers offer this feature or not.Įven when you get everything right WoL is very messy to get working. Generally the best solution I have seen for this problem is asus routers have a feature that lets you log into the router from the internet and then ask the router to send the WoL packet to the end pc. Anything that must come in from the internet is Wake on WAN which does not exist. What will not work is if you attempt to wake your pc from your phone that is connected to say the mobile broadband network. You could for example use a cell phone connected to the wifi to wake your pc. If the device is really running as a AP then it is all one lan and is the same as if it was connected directly to your router. So you're saying i can't do that as long as my pc is connected to the AP, the only way would be to connect the pc to the router itself ? The reason it does not work using the port forwarding hack is the ARP table entry will timeout in the router and it no longer know where to send the data. Way too much misinformation out there including from people that write the client applications that send the WoL packet. There is no concept of IP addresses or port or UDP or TCP. The problem is the WoL only uses mac addresses. People 'think' they can make it work with port forwarding but it only will work for a short time.

It will not work because you are attempting wake on WAN which does not exist.

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