Wake up your PC by using WoL(Wake on LAN)

When we are away from home and need to use a PC that is powered off, what can we do? Wake on LAN is a useful feature for this case. We can use the Wake on LAN feature from Vigor Router's Web UI or by a Wake-on-LAN tool to wake up the computer remotely. This article will demonstrate two methods about how to wake up the computer by WoL.

 

Method1: Using Vigor Router to wake up your computer

Settings on the PC:

1. Enter the BIOS of your PC to enable Wake Up On LAN.

2.Click right button of your mouse on PC icon on desktop.

• Click Manage.
• Go to Device Manager>>Network adapters and click the network card you use.
• Go to Advance. Select “Wake on LAN” in the Property and enable it.
• Then click OK.

Settings on Vigor Router:

1.Go to LAN >> Bind IP to MAC. Enable Bind IP to MAC. Select your PC's IP address in the ARP Table, add it into IP Bind List then click OK.

2.Go to Applications >> Wake on LAN.

• Select "IP Address" on Wake by.
• Choose the IP Address of your PC which you want to wake up.
• Click Wake Up!

The PC now starts while you click Wake Up!

We could also use the telnet command to wake up your PC:

1.Open the web console on Vigor Router. Command "wol up 192.168.1.11".

Method2: Using WakeOnLan GUI Tool

We also can wake up the PC remotely by sending the WoL packet by the WakeOnLan tool to Vigor Router.

Additional Step:

1. Download the WakeOnLan GUI tool.

2. Go NAT >> Port Redirection.

• Enable a profile.
• Comment Service Name.
• Select UDP Protocol.
• Chooser WAN Interface and IP.
• Set Public Port : 9
• Private IP : 192.168.1.11
• Set Private Port : 9
• Click OK.

3. Go to Applications >> Wake on LAN/WAN >> Wake on WAN.

• Check Enable Wake on WAN.
• Choose Access List.
• Enter the IP Address and Subnet Mask to allow only users who are in Access List to wake up their PC from the WAN interface.

4. Open up WakeOnLan GUI on the PC.

• Enter MAC address.
• Enter Internet Address and Subnet Mask. (IP 114.32.217.99 is Vigor Router’s WAN IP in this example)
• c. Enter Remote Port Number.
• d. Click Wake Up.

The PC now starts while you click Wake Up.