How to light a pc remotely using wake on lan

Light your PC remotely

How many occasions have you thought It would be useful to turn the computer remotely When you weren’t in front of him, but he was off? Surely this situation has ever been given, but you can know that, even if off, suspended or hibernate, you can turn it on remotely with the Wol protocol, Wake on LANwhich comes to mean “awakening through the network.” Most PCs have this option, only to Configure it.

In this guide we are going to teach you How to light a pc remotely using wake on lan. In this way start up Your equipment is where you are so you can use it with a remote desk or you can connect to some disc unit that you have shared.

But this process requires a configuration that is not very complicatedwe will usually have to enable the function so that the PC can ignite or wake up with an option that is in Bios. Subsequently we will also need that The Windows operating system allows thisapplying a small configuration.

Let’s see step by step How to perform these actions.

Set your bios to use wake on lan

To make this option work, you have to Configure in bios or uefi To be used, this will allow the package sent from the network to your PC to turn it on. We can generally find this option in the section of Wake up either Wake Up what’s in the bios. The option may appear directly as Wol or Wake On LAN to enable, but it can also appear to enable from a PCIE devicewhich includes the network integrated network controller.

If you do not know all the options that the BIOS has and where it is located exactly, you can look at a look until you find it. You can look at Settings and inside Advancedbut it will depend on each motherboard model.

Once this option Wol or Wake By Pcie Device is located, we will only have to enable hermake sure that We save the changesand restart to be enabled.

Within the configuration of the BIOS we will not have to make more changes, the next step is Configure Windows To enable this protocol that will allow us to start the PC, even when it is off, from the Internet.

Configure the wol network on Windows 11

In order to use WOL we will have to enable it in the network interfaceEthernet is preferably used, although wifi should also work. To perform this action We follow these simple steps:

1. Let’s Start and then a Configuration.

   

2. Now we click Network and Internet.
3. We click on the last option, Advanced network configuration.

   

4. We click on the adapter arrow that we are going to use for WOL, which must be the same as we have set up in BIOS, and click on Edit of the section More adapter options.

   

5. In the window Ethernet properties We will have to click on Set up.

   

6. Now we go to the tab Energy administration.
7. We must have the options marked Allow this device to react the equipmentand too Allow only a Magic Packet to reactivate the equipment. With this last option we reduce the possibility that the equipment is active involuntarily for another network traffic.

   

8. We click on Accept And we have everything ready.

You also have to make sure the option Wake on Magic Packet be enabled, for this you have to follow these steps:

1. Enter the device administrator, you can search Device administrator In the Windows search box to enter.

   

2. Now displays the Network adapters To see the ones you have available.

   

3. Select the one you are going to use for Wol and click on the right button and select Properties. Go to Advanced options.

   

4. Towards the end, you will see the option Wake on Magic Packetthis must be Enabled.

   

In addition to this, we must have a fixed IP address configured so that WOL works correctly, since the next step will be to configure our router to allow and redirect the Magic Packet to the right place. In addition, the steps are practically the same for Windows 10.

Configure your router to allow you to turn on a PC

With the configuration so far, it allows you to start your PC within the local network, that is, within the same network. But to be able to wake up or turn on the PC you will be remotely need to redirect the Magic Packet To the IP of your computer, for this you will have to redirect this package on your router. This is achieved by opening port 9 in UDP pointing to the local IP of the team that we want to wake up.

Each router is different, so we cannot teach a step -by -step guide of how this is done. Simply search how to open the UDP 9 port and you will have everything configured on your router.

Once this part is finished we will have everything ready to start our PC from any part of the Internet.

Start your PC from the Internet

To be able to start the PC through WOL, now that we have everything properly configured, we only have to send the famous Magic Packet. For this we will use some program Do you do it for us, so you can have your computer on to connect to it, to some storage unit of yours or have the services you have configured when you are on.

You have options for Windows or even for your mobile phone, I use one called Wake On LAN and that is free at the Play Store. For Windows you can even use the same Anydesk remote desktop software, or TeamViewer that includes an option for WOL and thus be able to awaken the equipment you have turned off or asleep on the network.

You can also search for specific software for this, a simple search for Wake On Lan in the Microsoft Store will throw at least 4 free alternatives Coom Easy Wol, Wake On LAN (Magic Packet), simple Wake-on-LAN or Wake PC on LAN. In order to configure the software you will also need to know the MAC address of the equipment that has the network card to which you have associated WOL. To meet her you just have to enter:

1. Open the Start menu from Windows and go to the Configuration already Network and Internet.
2. Enter the section of Ethernet.
3. At the end of this window you have the Physical address (Mac) of your card.

You only have to fill in the data in the corresponding application to use Wake-on-LAN from the Internet.

With Wake-on-Lan you can see your computer remotely

With Wake on lan you can turn on your PC from anywhereyou have already seen that it is even possible with An application for your mobile phone. If for any reason You need a file of your pc, access some service or simply connect with remote desktopwith Wake On Lan is that simple.