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Wake on Lan Question
I have managed to get my desktop computer to power up from a Magic packet sent from an Android cell phone in my home wifi space -- seems unlikely that I will be able to do this over the Internet usin...
Have you looked at this article
https://www.howtogeek.com/192642/how-to-remotely-turn-on-your-pc-over-the-internet/
Thanks -- tried that one, I set up the router firewall to forward the Wake over Lan UDP net packet through to my desktop but no response. Maybe Telus blocks unknown UDP requests -- or there is some other configuration trick(s).
Now I am really baffled -- tried various port checking tools and it seems that traffic to all ports on my home network is blocked. Obviously this is not the case. Even if I lower the security level on the T3200M router no ports show as open when checked. I must be missing something really basic!
port scanning tools are actually reporting no response to network requests, which could happen for a number of reasons.
