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zekeisaszekedoes · 10-02-2011, 17:49

Not a chance. Most home routers won't, more as a security feature so spam packets aren't sent to the LAN broadcast address (x.x.x.255). If you really want this you need a seperate cable modem and router, with the router running DD-WRT or some other high-quality third-party firmware. Then you can log into the web GUI remotely (or the command line, if you want) and use DD-WRT to send a magic packet to the target MAC address internally. I do this and it's faultless: I can then remotely VNC control my PC, with the connection using 128-bit AES. Handy in cases where you're on a limited internet service (i.e. certain sites are blocked) and want to tunnel through to your home connection instead, or perhaps to retrieve a file.

10-02-2011, 17:49	#10
zekeisaszekedoes Permanently Banned Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Hampshire, UK Age: 41 Services: 30Mb Broadband (XL), 2TB TiVo (M+), Samsung Galaxy Ace (M), POTS Landline (M). Posts: 823	Re: SuperHub - Anyone Tried WOL - WAN to PC? Not a chance. Most home routers won't, more as a security feature so spam packets aren't sent to the LAN broadcast address (x.x.x.255). If you really want this you need a seperate cable modem and router, with the router running DD-WRT or some other high-quality third-party firmware. Then you can log into the web GUI remotely (or the command line, if you want) and use DD-WRT to send a magic packet to the target MAC address internally. I do this and it's faultless: I can then remotely VNC control my PC, with the connection using 128-bit AES. Handy in cases where you're on a limited internet service (i.e. certain sites are blocked) and want to tunnel through to your home connection instead, or perhaps to retrieve a file.