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mmgala's avatar
mmgala
Aspirant
Dec 08, 2023

wake ove internet team viewer

Hi

 

Im desperately trying to wake my PC over the internet when im away, and think i have seen and read most of which is out there, i'm hoping you can help.

 

I have seen in some videos that team viewer can do this, i just can't get it to work, even though i can wake the pc, when i´m on the local network, i cant using 5g

 

 

so far i have:

- reserved the pc ip on my router to a specific IP (picture)

-set up port number 9 to my pc internal ip adress (picture)

- tried 2 different DNS services (copying the DNS into wake on lan - public adress, after adding the pc to my account (teamviewer))

 

any good ideas

 

2 Replies

  • CrimpOn's avatar
    CrimpOn
    Guru - Experienced User

    My PC remains on 24/7, so I have no personal experience with WoL.  This article mentions forwarding ports 7-9, not only port 9.

    https://www.techspot.com/guides/2609-wake-on-lan-guide/ 

     

    It also talks about various options, with Team View being one of them.

     

    I would be tempted to use the Orbi Debug option to "Enable LAN/WAN Packet Capture".  Attempt to WoL, then terminate the packet capture.  In the debug-log.zip file, look at wan.pcap and lan.pcap to see if the WoL packet goes through the router to the desired computer. i.e. set a Display Filter to udp port 7 or 8 or 9 and see if it shows up in both files.

     

    WoL cannot have Windows Firewall settings (because Windows is not actually running when the magic packet arrives). The comment about BIOS support for WoL seems to indicate that different BIOS can have different settings.  Could there be a setting for LAN vs. WAN in the BIOS?

     

  • @mmgala wrote:

    Hi

     

    Im desperately trying to wake my PC over the internet when im away, and think i have seen and read most of which is out there, i'm hoping you can help.

     

    I have seen in some videos that team viewer can do this, i just can't get it to work, even though i can wake the pc, when i´m on the local network, i cant using 5g

     

     

    so far i have:

    - reserved the pc ip on my router to a specific IP (picture)

    -set up port number 9 to my pc internal ip adress (picture)

    - tried 2 different DNS services (copying the DNS into wake on lan - public adress, after adding the pc to my account (teamviewer))

     

    any good ideas

    Here are few ideas to troubleshoot and improve Wake-on-LAN functionality over the internet:

    i think that your router's firewall is  blocking the required ports for Wake-on-LAN.ypu can check that it worked for me.

    Temporarily disable any firewall or antivirus software on your PC that might be blocking external Wake-on-LAN requests. Remember to enable them again after testing.