Also, go into the Power Management tab and tick Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power, Allow this device to wake the computer, and optionally Only allow magic packets to wake the computer. I followed this video to set up WOL initially. Double click on your Ethernet controller and look in the Advanced tab for Wake on LAN, Wake from shutdown, Wake on Magic Packet or similar. Tl dr WOL via smartphone works at home and a half mile from home, but not at work. I thought about just driving further and further away to see if it stopped working at a certain distance from home, but I thought I'd ask for ideas here, first. and was able to wake the desktop.īut at work (about 20 miles from home) this morning, I couldn't.Īnyone have any ideas, here? When it didn't work at work this morning I thought I needed to adjust my settings or something when I got home, but now I don't know what to think. I then disconnected my phone from the wifi, got in my car, and drove about a half a mile away. When I got home, as stated above, it worked fine was able to wake the desktop either connected to wifi or on mobile data only.

Here's the deal my phone can wake up my desktop:Īt home, not connected to wifi, mobile data onlyīut when I got to work this morning, took out my phone, and tried to wake up my desktop. I have the Teamviewer app on my Android phone.

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