How do I use wakeup on LAN on Duo v2?

Does anyone actually come on these forums? I've asked two questions and had not one reply!

There are several freeware packages that will send WoL packets to your NAS.

So maybe try googling "wake on lan freeware"

DiBosco wrote:
Does anyone actually come on these forums? I've asked two questions and had not one reply!

One was answered before you posted this.

The forum is reasonable active (typically >50 posts a day). Posters are in various time zones, and most of us have real jobs to attend to... So maybe have a bit more patience.

These are community forums, not Support forums. Community members will help out where they can, but if you need NETGEAR Support, best to contact them directly. http://support.netgear.com/

Thanks for the sarcastic suggestion of Googling wake up on lan utility, but if you don't know it is a generic program that doesn't help. I tried Googling things like "wake on lan readynas" "wake on lan readynas duo" "wake on lan readynas duo v2" etc etc and there were lots of questions about it, does it actually work etc, but nothing saying it's just needs a application that you can run on your OS of choice that sends a magic packet. I thought at first it was a Netgear specific application I couldn't find or that you had to ping it or just try and log on to its inbuilt web page.

I did not just come here without spending time trying to find the answer first. It's one of those classic things where it's such a basic hole in your knowledge, people find it hard to think back to when they'd never come across something new and they just assume the person asking the questions knows that basic premise.

Anyway, thanks for the help, Stephen.

Point taken. Use http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-gui.aspx . Or if on Win 8 there are various ones in the store.

The depicus package looks reasonable, there are several similar ones. All require knowledge of the NAS mac address (e.g., its ethernet address, not the IP address), and they depend on broadcast packets going through your network. They generally won't work over the open internet.

As far as I know, there are no special requirements to get WoL working with the NAS. Not all ReadyNAS models support WoL, but the ones that do should work with any utility. Though I do this in the other direction - the NAS is on 24/7, and I have a WoL addon which I use to wake up the PCs.

I do the same as StephenB - NAS on 24/7, use it to WOL local PCs from WAN. That was my main reason for the NAS, replace 2 x 100W PCs that were on 24/7 with 40W NAS. Well, what I told my wife anyway :o) Electricity is surprisingly expensive today!

BTW, on the x86 models there is a convenient trick you can use. Frontview backup on the x86 allows you to send a WoL packet when the backup job starts. You enter the mac address for each backup job.

So you can create a dummy backup job (which in my case backs up an empty share from my pro to my duo), which has the PC's mac address. The result is that it wakes the PC on schedule. Of course it can also back up a real share (or just let the backup fail, since the WoL is still sent).

I'm not sure if this works on the v2, since it might not have the WoL feature in its backup.