Wake On WAN Via Internet From Anywhere Problem

[Karim Kahale]

Hi all,
the past 2 weeks, I spent more than 24 hours searching for methods to wake on WAN but the tutorials were so confusing regarding the port forwarding.
I have already done wake on lan over local network or local wifi but I couldn't do that from outside my company.
Can someone describe how can I wake up my computers wherever I am using internet?
Thank you so much for your support.

 

[TrainableMan]

I've never done it. According to this Article you can't use wi-fi, it must be wired, you will need the computers MAC address, and there are many things which must be set up first.

 

[Karim Kahale]

I've never done it. According to this Article you can't use wi-fi, it must be wired, you will need the computers MAC address, and there are many things which must be set up first.

I have already succeeded waking up my computers using a local network but I couldn't do that from anywhere using internet.
There is something called port forwarding where the router sends the packets, you should do something which I don't really get to get that.
It is somewhat related to an external IP adress or a domain.
Thanks !

 

[TrainableMan]

Yes, you have to actually log on to your router and configure it to take any transmissions to a specific port and automatically "forward" them to a specific PC on your network. See page 4 (step 6) of the article.