WakeOnLan Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to power your computer up from the internet. This tutorial is written for Windows although most of the information is also applicable for Linux. Requirements:

1. An always on internet (such as a cable modem)
2. The ability to open a pot on your firewall (which you should have if you meet the above requirement)
3. The MAC address of your network card
4. And, most importantly, a network card that supports Wake on Lan

Finding your IP address

If you have a static IP address, this should not be a problem as you will only have to do it once. If you have a dynamic IP address (such as most cable modems), you need to run an IP updater such as no-ip.com. This will give you a DNS name such as example.no-ip.com. You will then need open a command prompt and ping example.no-ip.com to get your IP address.

Finding your network card MAC address

• Click on Start -> Run...
• Type "cmd" in the textbox and click the OK button
• When the command prompt opens, type "ipconfig /all"

Your MAC address will be listed like this:

C:\>ipconfig /all

Physical Address . . . . . . : 00-11-1A-2B-3C-4D

Waking your computer

For this to work, you need to open UDP port 9 on your computer. Here are some links for how to open a port on your firewall

• Windows XP Firewall
• more coming soon (hopefully), please add yours to the comments section below

Go to http://www.dslreports.com/wakeup and type in your IP address and your network card's MAC address and then click the "Wake Up" button. Your computer should now turn on.