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WOWLAN on Orbi
Has anyone got Wake on Wireless LAN working successfully on their Orbi? I used Wake On (wired) LAN successfully on the same PC via Google Wifi until I got the Orbi system recently but now I can't get...
For WoWLAN to work you need Orbi to be in Router Mode (not AP Mode) and also forward ports 7 and 9 to the PC that you want to wake up.
Thanks ekhalil. I am in router mode but am not clear on how to set up Port Forwarding. Netgear's instruction https://kb.netgear.com/31069/How-do-I-configure-port-forwarding-on-my-Orbi-system doesn't help, referring to menu entries (ADVANCED > Advanced Setup > Port Forwarding/Port Triggering) that are not there in the browser interface I see. For example, under Advanced I see entries for LAN Setup and WAN Setup and neither refers to Port Forwarding.
I found the Port Forwarding option but still don't know what I'm doing. I selected "HTTP" (guessing that Google Home and the WOL phone app I'm using will both use HTTP) and the IP address of the device I want to send to (to wake up), ending in 14. I set the port to 9. The Netgear Community site seemed to accept my uploaded image of the web interface (below) but wasn't visible when I viewed the message. Should the Port Forwarding now work, or have I misunderstood?
(The article https://kb.netgear.com/31069/How-do-I-configure-port-forwarding-on-my-Orbi-system seems to assume a detailed knowledge of networking and mine is limited to a course I did in 1999. I have more questions than answers, such as Does this only work forwarding from a fixed IP address? in which case I don't understand how it did via my old Google Wifi/Google Home, where I don't know Google's source address) Is there an explanation "for dummies" somewhere?
Thanks.
TyneBridges wrote:I found the Port Forwarding option but still don't know what I'm doing. I selected "HTTP" (guessing that Google Home and the WOL phone app I'm using will both use HTTP) and the IP address of the device I want to send to (to wake up), ending in 14. I set the port to 9. The Netgear Community site seemed to accept my uploaded image of the web interface (below) but wasn't visible when I viewed the message. Should the Port Forwarding now work, or have I misunderstood?
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Yes, looks that you managed to forward port 9 (this is not http. http is port 80, ports 7 and 9 ar not listed as part of the "standard" ports"). Please do the same for port 7 and see if WoWLAN will now work!
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......... in which case I don't understand how it did via my old Google Wifi/Google Home, where I don't know Google's source address) .....
Was it WoLAN or WLAN that worked on Google Wifi? WoLAN is much straight forward to get working than WoWLAN.
