Comments on: Wake on Oui Launched!

By: admin

admin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:31:30 +0000

Mel, this often depends on your specific motherboard. But from our testing, generally, for PCs, if you have WOL configured in your bios, it will wake from a complete shutdown. This technology was often designed for corporate networks that wanted to both save energy but wake up desktops in the middle of the night to upgrade/patch them. In other words, the complete shutdown mode works on most PCs, especially corporate minded vendors like Dell, IBM, and HP.

For Macs, who do not have the same corporate presense or central management trend, sleep is the intended mode to wake from. Macs do not offer the same low level control, as seen in the System preferences>Energy Saver generally. Sleep mode is of course more energy efficient than leaving your computer on, but Macs have not opted for the WOL configuration from a complete shutdown generally.

A computer left on could cost you as much as $6/month in electricity usage. Configuring your computer for energy efficiency; sleep, hibernate, or complete shutdown is good for the planet and maybe good for you. We hope Wake on Oui can help you.

Best,
GAW Designs Support

By: mel

mel — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:19:14 +0000

so once i configure my computer to wake from sleep/hibernate, are their any other configurations to get my computer to wake from a complete shut-down? or is it already done once i can get it to wake from hibernate?

thanks

By: Gaw Designs Support

Gaw Designs Support — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:09:51 +0000

will it wake computer through wireless or do you have to have ethernet cable hooked up like all other wake WOI apps? thanks.

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Some computers do support a technology known as Wake on Wireless LAN (WoWLAN), but it is far less common than regular WoL, and it would be best to consult the documentation for your wireless chipset and motherboard to see if your computer supports this. The technology which support WoWLAN is the same that supports WoL though, so if your wireless card supports WoWLAN, this application should work for you. It has been verified to work on a Dell laptop with an Intel chipset using WoWLAN.

Best,
GAW Designs Support

P.S. In order to find this functionality, on most Dells and other computers, you will hit F2 during the initial boot sequence to enter the bios setup. You can then look under integrated devices or NICs etc. and find the WoL settings. A few machines may have a wake on wireless lan setting that you can enable and see if it works for you. Every computer is a little different so you’ll just have to try it out really. Wireless Lan is much less common than the typical WoL that arrives on most NICs/motherboards.

By: Gaw Designs Support

Gaw Designs Support — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:58:29 +0000

You will need to port forward a port on your router to whatever the broadcast address for your local subnet is (typically 192.168.0.255 or 192.168.1.255). For instance, you might forward port 9 on your public facing IP to port 9 on 192.168.0.255. Many routers, including those made by Linksys, will not allow you by default to forward a port to a broadcast address on the local network, so you may want to contact Linksys for information on how to do this or look in online forums.

You only need to use dynamic DNS if you want to be able to point at a hostname that is pointing at your public IP. Alternatively, you can also just use your public IP as the hostname to send to, assuming that it is relatively static.

Most routers support dynamic DNS registration to a free DDNS service like DynDNS.org or TZO.com. You can register your own DNS name like jacksmachine.homeip.net and then use that hostname to resolve to from the Wake on Oui app.

Best,
GAW Designs Support

By: r

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:52:59 +0000

Please advise what settings do I need to apply to the router and whether I need to do any port forwarding or use dynamic DNS.

Assume my SSID is WOO.

I am using a Linkysys N router.

Thanks,
r.