Hi All,
My apartment building recently switched to an new internet provider. The building has 1gb fiber. I have to use the fiber router they provided and don't have access to it's admin interface. But they are willing to set up port forwards for me. I have one set up for rdp which is working. I had them setup UDP ports 7 and 9 for Wake on Lan. So far, i've been able to wake my PC twice using this. Once when the PC was off all night and i was able to get to power back on (from hibernate). and then earlier today my PC was on for several hours, and i put it to sleep just to test the WoL and it worked. Other than those two times, it hasn't worked.
It DOES work if i plug my pc directly into my own router and send the wake request over my own LAN. I can put it to sleep/hibernate and it wakes up every time. As soon as i switch the ethernet cable back to their router, it stops working. I have a dynamic dns account with noip. I dont think thats the issue since the IP address hasnt even changed in the last few days, and certainly hasnt changed in the last few minutes between each wake request.
I emailed them to see if there was some sort of DOS protection that might have been blocking multiple packets, they say there isnt any DOS protection.
I'm not really sure what else it could be at this point. Since the PC wakes up just fine when it's on my own LAN, i dont think it's an issue with my PC, it seems more likely it's something to do with their network. But I don't know how to confirm that.
Anyone have any suggestions?
My apartment building recently switched to an new internet provider. The building has 1gb fiber. I have to use the fiber router they provided and don't have access to it's admin interface. But they are willing to set up port forwards for me. I have one set up for rdp which is working. I had them setup UDP ports 7 and 9 for Wake on Lan. So far, i've been able to wake my PC twice using this. Once when the PC was off all night and i was able to get to power back on (from hibernate). and then earlier today my PC was on for several hours, and i put it to sleep just to test the WoL and it worked. Other than those two times, it hasn't worked.
It DOES work if i plug my pc directly into my own router and send the wake request over my own LAN. I can put it to sleep/hibernate and it wakes up every time. As soon as i switch the ethernet cable back to their router, it stops working. I have a dynamic dns account with noip. I dont think thats the issue since the IP address hasnt even changed in the last few days, and certainly hasnt changed in the last few minutes between each wake request.
I emailed them to see if there was some sort of DOS protection that might have been blocking multiple packets, they say there isnt any DOS protection.
I'm not really sure what else it could be at this point. Since the PC wakes up just fine when it's on my own LAN, i dont think it's an issue with my PC, it seems more likely it's something to do with their network. But I don't know how to confirm that.
Anyone have any suggestions?