Talk:Wake-on-LAN

message: Are "Power On By LAN" and "Power Up By LAN" really equivalent to WoL? This seems like a major oversight to me, confusing the two states. I suggest clear distinction, since e.g. Macs in sleep mode can be easily awaken, but once they're shut down there's no way to turn them on remotely.
In addition, Lights Out Management should be mentioned in this article, to contrast LOM and WoL. Binba (talk) 22:33, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  WoL vs. LOM, "off" vs. "asleep" 

message: I have added, again, links to sites offering free services and software for Wake on LAN. I have no interest in pushing any particular solution, but it is very useful to have these things available. If the actual links are removed (which I do not recommend), at least it would be useful to provide a procedure to find the various free services and software available. The links are a useful service to the user, rather than a tool to sell commercial product. I tend to use one particular (free) supplier which I find convenient, but have no wish to promote any particular one. Anyone who needs to use WoL needs a service and/or software to do the waking; these are useful tools. Personally I have links on my desktop which, when clicked, awake a particular machine on my network, using wolcmd.exe (downloaded free) from the Windows command-line. A program from any other source would do as well. Pol098 (talk) 09:23, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I actually looked at this article specifically because I was looking for a utility to send a wake up packet. other wikipedia articles usually provide at least a selection of some commonly used software, but in this article I find nothing. this is very frustrating. imho this article is quite useless this way. --helohe (talk) 21:53, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to free services and software 

message: I just edited the article to remove a rather authoritative statement that I saw was actually causing some level of confusion with people trying to implement WoWLAN in the real world.  It stated that WoWLAN does not use the normal WoL packets, but instead sends them over WMM.  AFAICT this was based off an erroneous offhand conjecture made (and then self-corrected) by the author of the cited article on the Apple Bonjour.  Another contributing factor to this confusion is that WMM does include facilities for power-saving sleep but these are on the microsecond scale (the two features may interact, in that a WoL magic packet going over a WiFi link might queue in the WMM queue on the AP, but it is not clear that this actually happens given no publicly available copy of WiFi WoL standards.)
Now, as to WoWLAN, I kept the references to it, but aside from the Intel paper, which they have since disappeared from their site (wayback link now added) I don't google much of a solid indication that this standard actually exists outside of Intel.  It is unclear if Apple even used the same "standard" in their implementation though it is probable given airports are made by Intel.  Perhaps someone can actually find a standard number, or some indication where in the paywall-protected stack of IEEE and Wi-Fi Alliance standards WoWLAN is actually formally defined, and what standards body approved it, but we should probably demote it to a vendor-specific feature.
Finally, it is important to disambiguate between WoL, and wake-on-demand technologies.  It can probably be done while keeping both in the same article, but that's a bigger edit than I had time for.  Also a distinction should be clearly drawn between WoL and WMM/802.11e power saving mechanisms. (140.232.0.68 (talk) 20:02, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  WoWLAN "standard", WMM, and keeping it all straight 

message: I would propose to restore the technical references that this article was based upon and which further expand on the topic. My understanding is that it is okay to link to third-party material as long as it does not overtly promote a product or service. I have had a discussion with User_talk:93.95.153.140 who contends that any material that may have any commercial nature should not be referenced and insists upon removing references to any such material. I would propose a slightly less strict inclusion criteria to include if (1) Relevant and (2) non-promotional. For the limitations section I would propose the following (the first one was the original source for the section):
* http://www.datasynergy.co.uk/products/wakeman/pdfs/Wake-on-LANExplained.pdf
* http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb632911.aspx  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Settlementplan (talk • contribs) 16:23, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Theoretically, a WoL packet could be sent embedded inside a TCP segment, but this would require bypassing the OS stack and avoiding stateful routers/firewalls as the initial SYN would never be ACK'ed and the socket could never be established. However, this is a problem of TCP and not of WoL. LANDesk can't do anything different. --Zac67 (talk) 18:12, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useful References 

message: Is "Wake-on-LAN" always capitalized mid-sentence, or can it be "wake-on-LAN"?
How about hyphenation? The article switches between hyphens and no hyphens.
XP1 (talk) 05:30, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: As of Wikipedia is not the platform, where you upload first hand informations I'll write it here
Wake-on-LAN does work with the mentioned Operating systems (Windows Server 2012 or above, Windows 8.1 or above)
But there are several things has to be set to be able to use it.
I'll just write some points.
  1. Fast boot OFF
  2. Device "Manager / Network adapters / [Adapter] / Wake on Magic Packet" has to be Enabled
  +. In certain cases you have to change things in the BIOS, as it can be dependant from here aswell.
I use it with Win10 and it works for me. But I would like to ask everyone to test their computer before first time usage and going far from home thinking it would work and then facepalm, that they have not done something, and it's not working then.
I faced some issues, that I am willing to test after writing the post. That It can turn of until a bit of time, and then it is not working until the computer is booted and then shut down again.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 20Attila03 (talk • contribs) 10:04, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  WOL from Power Off state with Windows 10 or others mentioned is working