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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 using the Actiontec T3200M router? Maybe DD-WRT firmware is required on a 2nd sub-router
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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!
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Well, it is Wake on LAN, not Wake on WAN! Would the use of a Dynamic DNS host address the things you want to do?
Some folks out there claim to have WOL working over a Net connection -- must admit so far I can't see how. Most of what I want to do (continual running some Powershell scripts using the Win 10 Task Scheduler) is not drop dead important. Was mostly concerned about a post power outage situation but not prepared to invest a ton of time and money!
