Windows 10: My WiFi is waking my PC from sleep, even if I've enabled magic packets only.

I have configured my PC so only magic packets can wake it from sleep, yet it seems like my network card is responsible for waking it up from sleep. Have this happened to you?

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Computer wakes on LAN, even if Magic Packet is enabled

Hello!

I'm using Asrock Z87 Pro motherboard with onboard Intel I217-V network adapter. For few years I was running Windows 8, and had configured computer to wake only on Magic Packet being received on port 9 - everything worked flawless.

Recently I made fresh installation of Windows 10, installed all manufacturer's drivers, configured network adapter as before (wake on LAN only on Magic Packet), also disabled all other wake timers - everything is set as before. But now computer keeps waking up at random moments around 30min to 1hour after being put to sleep and "powercfg -lastwake" shows that it's the ethernet module that wakes computer up, although it's set to wake from only Magic Packet. What the hell? *Sad

I also checked my router log files - only magic packets being sent are from my phone when I genuienly needed to wake up PC. Also I don't want to disable WOL functionality altogether, because it's very convenient to remotely wake and access home PC.

Could someone suggest what to try next?

 

Possible to wake PC w/o Magic Packet...w/o unwanted wakes?


Setting up a Win 10 PC for shares, videos, which will be used lightly. I would like to have it sleep, and not have to do a separate operation to wake it with a magic packet before accessing.

Is this possible?

Any suggestions appreciated.

 

Weird behavior on magic packet computer wakeup

I have TP-Link TL-WPA8630P v2.0.3.b36564 as my router. MacBook Pro 16" 2019 is connected to that router via ethernet. If I launch a little program called "WOL - Magic Packet Sender", put it in Receive mode, send magic packet to MacBook, the program will immediately say "Magic Packet Received".

My Ethernet adapter is on a USB dock called Startech USB C Multiport Adapter DKT30CHVAUSP. In Device Manager, I went through all items and the only relevant I could find is Realtek USB GbE Family Controller. There I have [x] Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power (tried also disabling that). And [x] Allow this devicee to wake the computer. The problem is, the computer does not wake up no matter what. Tried [x] Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer and also that disabled, no difference.

The strange thing is, if I trigger the magic packet (from my phone for example, which does wake up my other computers – which are not behind the same router) the popup "Magic Packet Received" will appear after a long while after the computer has already been switched on normally. What exactly happens there? iPhone has this program WOL which I use. It sends three magic packets, I think. At least the listener program gives three consequtive popups when pressing "Wake Up". So when the computer is sleeping, I do that, nothing happens. I turn on the computer. Nothing happens. But after 1, 2 or even 10 minutes later, surprisingly popups appear one at a time. How is that possible? Where is the magic packet "queued"? Or are they some sort of noise, false alarms?

However the main question is, what can I try to get the WOL working?

I could not find any port routing section in the router's options, however isn't the router already working perfectly as "Magic Packet Received" does work, just the computer doesn't wake up?

(It also did not wake up when I tested connecting the computer through WiFi. However the culprit for that could also be that the WiFi chip has some different problem. Or it could be the same problem, I don't know.)