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Wake On LAN Help
My first post - Can someone help me understand the WOL feature on a RN102 NAS? I just received the NAS and got it setup yesterday. I expected the NAS to go into some low power mode overnight and ...
It is a broadcast packet, so it cannot be (and your NAT router would block it if it receives it).
wagb4 wrote: Related question: Is it possible to send such a packet via Internet to wake the NAS while away from home?
There are add-ons for the older NAS which will send WoL on your local LAN from the NAS. That does work remotely, because you are use http to tell the NAS to send them. I don't think they exist on OS6 yet though.
Those add-ons are more useful to me than WoL support in the NAS itself, since I am more interested in waking up client machines, and leave my NAS on 24-7.
I've often wished Netgear routers had an advanced feature to send WoL packets from their admin GUI.
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