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PeteCress
Jan 06, 2011Apprentice
Wake-On-LAN: Anybody Got It Working?
Seems like WOL is the only game in town for remote recovery from a power failure ==> graceful shutdown in response to UPS. I'm doing something wrong, but don't know what. Using Fusion's "FUSION ...
ilkevinli
Jan 07, 2011Aspirant
Its very easy to upgrade the firmware. All you have to do is download the firmware file, login to the router, and browse to the firmware file and hit upgrade. The important part is to make sure after the flashing is done that you do the 30/30/30 reset. Also make sure your router model is supported before flashing.
PeteCress wrote:
ilkevinli wrote: I have worked very hard on trying to get WOL to work outside the network. The only thing that worked for me was flashing my Linksys E3000 to the Tomato firmware at http://victek.is-a-geek.com/tomato.html With that firmware there is a WOL section where I just enter the ReadyNAS mac address and hit wakeup and it works. That is from outside my network.
How challenging was the firmware upgrade?
Hopefully:
- D/L a .BIN file
- Use the Router's setup screen to navigate to .BIN and execute the flash
- Router's setup screens then contains the same old functionality plus the new Tomato/WOL functionality
If that's the extent, maybe I can handle it without bricking the router.... -)
BTW, can anybody dumb down the "Network Strorage" part of this review: http://reviews.cnet.com/routers/cisco-l ... eviewPage1
I'm hoping to hear that it is mostly moot for me and my ReadyNAS - where I use a Tivo-On-Steroids app ("SageTV") to record TV and play my media directly to/from an Ultra-6.
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