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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.
It would be nice to know exactly what the state of play is for Telus Fiber residential services when it comes to port blocking and other advanced config actions. The T3200m gives the impression that by changing the firewall security level all kinds of freedom becomes available when it comes to port management -- but don't believe this action does anything (have not tried rebooting the router after making a firewall change): at least following testing after trying to make a change.
TELUS blocks some ports, at the network level. There are a number of posts on this forum that identify which ones.
The other ports are are blocked by the modem firewall.
