Wake on LAN, or its abbreviation Wol, is a standard developed in 1996 to Ethernet networks that allows a computer to be turned on or "waked up" by a network message.
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Conclusively stop wake timers from waking Windows 10 desktop
How do you stop a Windows 10 Desktop waking up from the sleeping/hibernated power state without user intervention?
For lots of users this won't be an issue but, if you sleep in the same room as your PC, then having your machine wake up at 3:30AM to…
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What is a "Magic Packet" for waking a computer?
My wireless adapter (Intel Dual Band Wireless-N 7260) has two settings in Device Manager which I cannot explain.
Wake on Magic Packet
Wake on Pattern Match
After a bit of research, I found this Microsoft Technet article which defines the feature…
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Computer wakes by itself, but wake source is unknown
I have an interesting problem. I am using Windows 8.1 on my PC and I have WOL enabled from my BIOS and my LAN card settings and it works just fine.
But, since a couple of weeks back, my computer turns on by itself in the middle of the night.
Two…
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PC waking from sleep for unknown reason
I recently started experiencing an issue with my PC, which runs Windows 10 Pro. It wakes from hibernation at seemingly random times. I have done the following to try and troubleshoot the issue:
Turn off wake timers
Disable all peripherals from…
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RDP wake-on-lan in LAN environment
How do you configure RDP to be able to wake-on-lan client computers?
Basically, I want to be able to wake-on-lan 1 or more computers at a time in our LAN environment.
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What does `Wake on Pattern Match` option mean in network card preferences?
I know Wake-on-LAN standard, but I don't understand the use case for Wake on Pattern Match option in the network card preferences. What are the advantages of it?
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My Windows 8 PC wakes up every night around 3 am
I just built a new Windows 8 PC, and started using it a few days ago. Every night, I use Hibernate on the computer before I go to bed. The only way to turn it back on is to hit the Power button.
Every night, the computer wakes up from Hibernation…
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How does WOL (Wake-On LAN) work?
This has always been a mystery to me and with all the snow we're getting I'd like to work from home but the boss man wants us to turn our computers off a night to save energy. Figured I'd like to try Wake-On LAN, but not sure where to start.
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Linux - How to get the reason for wakeup?
Is it possible to get the reason of system wake-up (Wake-on-LAN, Power button, wake from USB) on Linux? I'm using Ubuntu, kernel Linux homeless 2.6.37-12-generic #26~lucid1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 5 21:52:06 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
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How to send a magic packet from OS X in order to wake a PC on the LAN? (WOL)
Either some (preferably free/OS) app or a command line tool will do.
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Does it matter what UDP port a WOL signal is sent to?
i have seen many WOL instances use port 7 and many use port 9, does it matter?
Isn't it just looking for a WOL packet at layer 2 or ethernet?
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Listen for wakeonlan request
I would like to know how to listen for wakeonlan paquets on a running system.
I know that my question might seem a little bit useless, because, if a system is running, there is no need to wake up it!
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Computer waking up due to some PCI device
Ever since installing my new motherboard (Asus Z77 professional) my computer won't stay asleep for more than a few minutes. Executing powercfg /lastwake always returns the same:
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> powercfg /lastwake
Wake History Count - 1
Wake…
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Windows 10 won't wake from sleep for remote desktop
Windows 10 also won't run scheduled backups if it's sleeping. RDP and Acronis work properly if the computer is not asleep. Wake on LAN is enabled.
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Switch on the computer automatically
Is there any way to switch on the computer automatically at a specific time. Is there any BIOS clock trigger mechanisms available to switch on automatically.
EDIT:
I have a Dell Inspiron laptop. Does Wake-On-Lan work with wi-fi :-)?
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