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Stan-Gspeedy
Oct 17, 2020Tutor
SOLVED - Remote Wake on LAN with home routers
Most, if not all, Netgear home routers do not support Wake-on-LAN passthrough from external to LAN. Standard "magic packet" involves sending a packet with the target computer's MAC address to the LA...
Stan-Gspeedy
Oct 21, 2020Tutor
UPDATE: I found that Teamviewer WOL worked great if the target computer was shut down for a short time, but did not work after an overnight shutdown. Further research in the Teamviewer WOL manual indicates that the router needs to have a permanent ARP entry. My target PC, although it had a fixed address, was still within the router's DHCP range, so my guess is that the ARP entry is deleted after a period of non-communication with the host. So if you have the same problem, where Teamviewer WOL is erratic, try assigning a permanent address to the host and moving it outside of the DHCP range.