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Wake on LAN / WAN
Hello! I'd ultimately like to be able to wake a (wired) PC from WAN. I can currently do that from the LAN, for example from an andrid phone using a Wake On Lan app. But I can't do that from the WA...
Yes of course I was forwarding the ports in the superhub modem/router, not the orbi, how could I have done otherwsie, if it's in AP model?
Thath's why I also asked "by the way: can anyone confirm if that method [i.e. port forwarding] works when using the ORBI as router [instead of AP mode]?")
I appreciate your efforts but if you want to help could you please focus on my inital question about telnet: is there a command I can run on the ORBI via telnet to wake the PC?
I am confident that using a router to an AP mode disables most of the features of the router and one of them is port forwarding and this is true in any brand of router I have owned. Port forwarding is what you do to allow communication to a device behind a NAT and setting up a router as an AP disables the NAT.
- But (again) that's not relevant for my original scenario!!
I wasn't forwarding anything in orbi at that point of course, I was forwarding using the ISP router. The forwarding rule was exactly the same as the one I now have on the orbi. So it was the ISP router (Netgear superhub) that was not allowing the wow, since doing exactly the same on the orbi (now as a router) works, at least for the moment. I read your reply to au10tic that it is working now though your worrying it might be just temporary. Anyway, glad to hear it is working at the moment.Hopefully, it will stay solid with the Orbi.
