#Wol magic packet sender Pc#

Now the computer can normally be started from Hibernate, Standby, or PowerOff modes via a special management packet.

Press OK until you are back at Network Connections. Check the second and third boxes to enable WOL.

On the LAN adapter of the computer (physical ethernet adapter and/or wireless, given BIOS support), choose Properties/Configure.

You can also use the DD-WRT device's Web Interface to send test packets, in place of a second PC.

#Wol magic packet sender Pc#

Ideally, a second PC to test the WOL abilities of the first one.In the example below, we assume your router LAN is 192.168.1.x (the default) and the static IP WOL computer is 192.168.1.254. The WOL computer should have a static IP address, one manually assigned or through static DHCP.Administrative access to the computer you want to sleep/wake-up.The computer is a media server that auto-sleeps, but you want it to wake automatically for file access.You do not want a computer on all the time, yet you want to use it from outside your home or office, and there is a DD-WRT-enabled device as the Internet gateway for that computer, powered on all the time.Most modern computers have the WOL feature - it might be listed under PME (Power Management Events). Wake-On-LAN (WOL) provides the ability to wake a slept/suspended, hibernating, or shut down computer, but the support for this (especially the latter) is dependent upon the hardware and BIOS/UEFI settings. 5.2 Remote Wake On LAN via Port Forwarding.