Remotely Turn PC on

Skinner.Daddy

Skinner.Daddy

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Hi Guys,

Been looking around at various websites and wanted to know what the best/fastest/easiest way to turn my PC on remotely (Wake up Lan)

Check my rig, is this feature currently available on my Mobo?

Does it require extra H/W etc?

Cheers
 
I had a play around with this a while back. You need to enable Wake on PME event in the BIOS. I know my GA-965P-DS3 had this and i see no reason why yours shouldnt. Basically, it wakes up the pc when it sees the network adapters MAC address sent in some electronic hocus pocus language into the sub-ether and tells the pc to turn on. You wont need any more hardware assuming the network adapter supports it.

Just search for "WOL", theres a variety of programs that can help.
 
The only real issue is where you want to turn the PC on from. If its somewhere else in your house or office (i.e. on the same network) it will be a trivial matter. If you want to somehow wake it up from somewhere else, then it can be a little more difficult.
 
That link gives a very good description of the issues that makes this complicated. Ultimately, if your router doesn't support WOL (most don't) or you can't VPN onto your LAN (most can't) its pretty hard to Wakeup your PC from outside the LAN.
 
Will have to do some more reading up then.

Usually leave my PC on all day just in case I need it for anything, if I could use WOL then maybe do my bit to save the environment / Electricity bill.

Cheers
 
Well,

If I'm downloading anything that may then want converting, extracting or Burning I do this from work remotely while the PC is idle so when I return home it's done.
 
I was working on this very thing today, trying to turn the PC on from my phone so I could stream music and video to it.

The solution I now use, though seems to be a bit broken when other computers are on, is to use this program from my phone (should work on any java j2me enabled phone):

Wake On Lan midlet
http://www.jibble.org/midlets/

I bang in the WAN IP and the MAC address of my PC and off it goes via 3 mobile.

I also forwarded port 7 and then later port 9 to the IP of the PC I want to start, from the router. I forwarded 7 as I was following an earlier tutorial. I'll be removing that as I think the magic packet is coming over on port 9. This is on a Linksys WAG200g btw.
 
lightbulb said:
I was working on this very thing today, trying to turn the PC on from my phone so I could stream music and video to it.

The solution I now use, though seems to be a bit broken when other computers are on, is to use this program from my phone (should work on any java j2me enabled phone):

Wake On Lan midlet
http://www.jibble.org/midlets/

I bang in the WAN IP and the MAC address of my PC and off it goes via 3 mobile.

I also forwarded port 7 and then later port 9 to the IP of the PC I want to start, from the router. I forwarded 7 as I was following an earlier tutorial. I'll be removing that as I think the magic packet is coming over on port 9. This is on a Linksys WAG200g btw.
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mm nice link and info thx
 
I'm trying to get this to work with no luck :( Won't work from either inside the LAN or over the internet.

(thought I'd drag this up instead of posting a fresh thread.
 
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