Can someone help me out setting up WOL?

liamcrane · 14 Nov 2012 at 12:28

Hi guys

Just looking for some help setting up WOL on my network. I have a billion 7800n router and i have added my desktop machine and media machine mac addresses to the WOL list and both have there network cards WOL enabled. I can wake up either machine no problem from within my LAN by going into my router and simply clicking on the WOL option and selecting which machine i require.

What i would really like to do is be able to WOL from outside my LAN. Im not to sure how to go about doing it so would be really gratefull if someone could lend me a hand. I use Remote Desktop to get into machines round my LAN and normally use Teamviewer for external access but Teamviewer doesnt seem to support a WOL feature which is a pain

Cheers guys

Uhtred · 14 Nov 2012 at 12:52

The best way would be make your router config page available from the internet, there is probably an option for this buried somewhere. You should also look into using DDNS so that if your external IP changes you can still connect.

Obviously make sure you set a strong password for your router, and even change the username if it gives you that option.

bledd · 14 Nov 2012 at 13:56

Do you have an android phone?

Forward port 9 to the pc you want to wake (I assume you've given the machine a static DHCP address -so it always has the same local IP)

I use this to wake mine.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.mafro.android.wakeonlan&hl=en

The router can wake it too, there's a WOL screen, so you could login to the router from outside and do it that way.

liamcrane · 14 Nov 2012 at 14:05

Thanks for the responce guys, i'll see if i can change the default username on the router i have already changed the password.

I have an iphone bledd not an android im afraid, all the machines on my network have a static local address like you mention. Is it fairly safe accessing your home router over the wan to gain access to the WOL feature?

Thanks again guys much appreciated

CaNsA · 14 Nov 2012 at 14:07

Sign up to Logmein.com for a free account and install the agent on the machines you want to WOL.
You can WOL from there providing atleast 1 other machine on your network is powered up or if some routers store the info.

Been using it for the past year, along with the RA, it's awesome.

liamcrane · 14 Nov 2012 at 15:26

Ok cool thanks for that i may give that a look.

I have just found this app for the iphone so might give it a go as its free, only thing is i think it might only work on the LAN side

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/mocha-wol/id422625778?mt=8

liamcrane · 14 Nov 2012 at 16:25

I have managed to set this up right i think by adding all the info in manually so wol should work ok via my LAN

How do i go about setting up wol over the wan?

bledd · 14 Nov 2012 at 16:36

Internal IP address needs to be the IP of your computer you wish to wake.

-edit, just remembered, the 7800N uses .254 as it's address, I assume 1.1 is your computer

If you've saved the config, then that should be all you need to do.

Test waking from sleep mode first with it.

liamcrane · 14 Nov 2012 at 18:20

Thats right bledd my machine is 1.1 and the billion is .254

It seemed to work fine so happy with that, if i wanted to wake this machine though externally from this iphone app would i have to just enter my external wan ip instead and would it be safe to do that?