Wake on Lan - Over Internet

[DampCat]

It appears that this can now be done using a couple of solutions.

1. Depicus
2. Some Site based PHP jobbies

So that's good. I'm playing with the idea of leaving a cheap low powered laptop at the folks house that i can connect to remotely. Being able to power it down (aside from the NIC) would be a huge plus.

My concern is... should I be worried about using some random program to access my Laptop? I mean, they could do a lot with my IP/MAC and the correct ports, right? The impression i get is that they mask your current IP with that of the LAN you;re connecting to... so they could just do that for themselves?

Any thoughts?

 

[DampCat]

One of those Netgear WGR jobbies i think. Hard to say, im in a diiferent country atm.

DDWRT would require me to flash the firmware right? Could i use the standard firmware or something like Hamachi?