Wake on Lan - Windows 8 + boot from power off

[2sysel2]

This will be my first guide so please be patient with me. I decidet to make this guide incase someone else has problems with Wake on Lan on Windows 8.

 

Well after this guide you should be able to boot your computer from remote device over the wan or just wake your pc from sleep from local network

i don't want to cover networking basics. You should know what ip adress, mac adress, lan and wan is.

Asus Motherboards - screenshots taken on Maximus VI Formula and Z87i-Pro

1) navigate to advanced->apm

RoG boards:

Z87 series boards:

2) enable power on by pcie

Wake on Lan works on ports 7 or 9 (depeneds on the NIC manufacturer) and uses UDP packets, so you have to enable port forwarding in your router settings.

if you don't know how to forward ports on your specific router check out this site http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/

generaly it should be something like this:

1) open your web browser and go to 192.168.1.1 (or similar adress - it's usually printed on a sticker on the router)

2) log in

3) go to security

4) open port forwarding and add new rule

if you want to use WoL only from sleep state follow these instructions

1)open Device manager

2)open network adapters

3)select your ethernet NIC (in my case Intel Etherenet Connection I217-V)

4)open device properties

5) go to power managment and enable Wake on Magic Packet and Wake on Pattern Match

this would be all if you want to wake the computer from local network, however if you want to wake the pc from WaN(internet) there are few more requirements

1) you have a static ip

2) you can change port forwarding settings on your router

you shouldn't start with this until your wake on lan works. The problem here is that WoL doesn't work with Windows 8 fast boot enabled so you have to disable it.

1)follow all the steps from WoL only

2)open Change what the power buttons do

3)Change settings that are currently unavailable

4)Disable Turn on fast startup

5)in NIC Power Management settings enable Wake on Magic Packet from power off state

I'll cover one of many simple android apps https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.mafro.android.wakeonlan&hl=en

This is very simple app and it's really easy to use.

1) Install the app from Google Play

2) Launch the app

3) Open the wake tab and fill in the mac adress and if you want to use to boot from wan your public ip adress

4) send the magic packet

problem:

you don't get the intel power management dialog (win8_5) this happens when you don't install drivers from the motherboard manafacturer - you use drivers from windows update

solution: find drivers on manufacturers website and install them

problem:

dd-wrt routers deleting arp entry

solution:

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/184971-wake-on-lan-windows-8-boot-from-power-off/?p=2487724

http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?43361-Z87-Pro-Wake-on-Lan

http://www.groovypost.com/howto/enable-wake-on-lan-in-windows-8/

http://support.asus.com/Search/KDetail.aspx?SLanguage=en&no=4CBBB83E-4903-5F8B-130E-258FCE89DD8B&t=2

[antoainb]

Good tutorial!

[Mo5]

What is WoL used for?

[Raphael_123]

I can finally do this on my PC. i wa too lazy to see other toturials. Thank you!!!

[AllTernative]

Good tutorial, I set WoL / WoI up a few months ago.

 

You should mention though, that port forwarding is used to forward the port to the local IP of your computer.

An issue I encountered was that my router (DD-WRT) somehow got rid of the ARP-Table after a few minutes.

So my router had no idea to which MAC-Adress the IP is assigned which is used for forwarding.

Not even DHCP-Reservations got rid of this issue.

I managed to get it working by adding a cron job which fills the ARP Table every 10 minutes:

*/10 * * * * root arp -i br0 -s IP-ADDRESS MAC-ADDRESS

That beeing said, I also had to configure the broadcast IP of my subnet to be always assigned.

Sadly I cannot remember why this was necessary, but I think it didn't work without it.

Maybe I'll try removing it to see if it still works and update my post.

This is the cronjob:

0 * * * * root arp -i br0 -s 192.168.0.254 FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF

[2sysel2]

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yeah i thought about adding bigger part about port forwarding, but it would be different for every router - that's why i added the portforward.com link

 

EDIT: i changed the style of the first post - now it isn't one mile long

[seiny]

Wow so simple