Windows 10: Wake on lan after power of not working (intel I218-V)

Hi , well I finally found the right setting in Win10 to turn OFF , hopefully I am not speaking to soon but my Intel Nic now seems to work OK from Sleep and Shut Down.

1. Bios has PCI devices power On Enabled

2. On the NIC's Power Management Tab :

All options ON but EEE on under Power Saving

All options ON but wake on Pattern Match under WOL

and in Windows 10 , the final fix....

3. This fix, I found elsewhere lets my NIC have LINK ( Orange Light ) when the Computer is OFF , hence WOL works :

Windows 10, where 'shutting down' your computer doesn't switch the machine off but leaves quite a few functionalities working in order to reduce the startup time. This is called 'fast startup' and you need to untick that option in the system settings:
Power & Sleep => Additional power settings => Choose what the power buttons do => Change settings that are currently unavailable => and scroll down to and uncheck the box 'Turn on fast startup (recommended)'

The Fix above works on UEFI MB's as they have the Turn on fast startup Option enabled in Windows. For older Non UEFI MB's like my X58 with a Realtek NIC it seems all 3 options under Power Management must be checked for it to work . Seems unintuitive that letting Windows power it down would enable WOL ( so I had it off, but WOL ON) but it seems to have so far anyway. This X58 system only supports S3.

If you want to check what power states your Computer supports use powercfg -a at a Admin Command Prompt.
it will also tell you if fast startup is enabled , so you can turn it off as above if needed.

I need to check that my Android App, WOL is working properly as I downloaded WOL, the Windows Program, and it is working at times when the phone is not.


KB.

 

I found the problem why my computer is not waking after a couple of minutes.
It turns out the router delivered by my ISP loses its ARP entry for a specific computer after that computer has been turned off. (even if you set a static IP address for the computer). I was sending the magic packets to the static IP address, but as the ARP entries were lost the system did not wake. If I broadcast the magic packet on the complete network the computer wakes perfectly.
Problem is however that I wanted to wake my computer from the internet, however the router supplied by my ISP blocks port-forwarding to the broadcast IP (192.168.2.255) so that does not work.
@Kbird I have in the power management tab the Enegry Efficient Ethernet turned on and also the wake on Pattern Match. In my first-post on this tread I mentioned fast-startup, which is indeed a problem I found with more people on the internet. I find it strange that the WOL app on android does not work for you, it works for me perfectly (as long as I use the broadcast IP of the router)

 

Impressive find *Smile not one I'd see I don't think ? as My C7 Router is Bridged off port one off my ISP's Router as my 2nd "allowed device".

Yes you did actually but I assumed you meant FastBoot in the Bios at the time I read that , went back to the website I went to months ago when I 1st set it up , and it was in one of the comments. The whole WOL thing seems to very vendor/hardware specific now , eg you need ErP ON on some MB's and not on others etc.

I disabled EEE since I don't see anything on my router about it and according to Intel both "ends" need to support it . An old GB MB had Green Eth. and it used to screw with thing all the time too , so I just disable it to eliminate one more possible cause of it not waking.

The Android thing was me it turns out *Smile I forgot I had reset my Router last week sorting out IPV6 and changed a few things and hadn't refreshed the "saved devices" , at least it is working now....

Haven't been using Broadcast as yet as I haven't had too... same with Pattern Match as I found Magic Packet was working , but I know some devices don't have Magic Packet like my Surface 3 , but if I leave the Wifi Enabled while Sleeping/off it EATS the battery like crazy, so I will just have to push the button on it *Smile

How to Configure Wake-on-LAN in Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 - System Admins Howto

 

Settings might indeed be different for each PC.
As my router did not keep the ARP records and I had another server running 24/7 I set up that server to wake send a magic packet to wake the PC I want to wake. For ease I use teamviewer for this. But any other program would probably be fine.
Thank you all for you help. For me it is working now althoug not perfect, but as I understood from the support forums of my ISP they wont support keeping static ARP records in the router so this is the best solution for me.

 

Thanks JH5 , likewise Thanks for the input....

My Android App is actually called WakeOnLan by Mr Webb is that the one you use? though I might try another if not just in case.

KB

 

I have the same app which works as long as I broadcast the magic packet

 

Ok thanks , I think the quirkiness might just be me being a noob to Android with a newish 6P , still learning the ins and outs...


On the PC I am using WOL by Aquila Tech. BTW


KB

 

I know this is old but I thought I would chime in since I spent the last week dealing with this problem. I got WOL to work perfectly with the exception of after 5 to 10 minutes it would not work. I tried everything to make it work and came to the conclusion that it must be my router losing the IP after a set amount of time. I didn't really look into how to broadcast to the whole network but I was sketchy from the start about doing DMZ or port forwarding and leaving that connection open. So what I did is took an android box that I leave on 24/7 and installed wake on lan on it that could wake my PC and teamviewer so I could remote it outside of the house to activate said wake on lan. This for some reason seems so far to bypass the losing the ability after a certain amount of time and allows me to not have to forward any ports. Seems like the best option, as I wouldn't want to leave another laptop running 24/7 as a middleman but I could care less about a little 30 dollar android box.

 

Are you sure you don't have EE (energy Efficient) Network settings on in the Driver or Bios? just sounds like it was going to sleep or being powered down after a time period.

KB

 

Yeah I have that all turned off and I verified that the Ethernet light was still on after I lost the ability to wake it. I'm pretty content with the android box middle man solution. I've already tested it after it was shut down for 12 hours and it booted right up outside of the network on my 4g. I know this is a widespread problem so if anyone sees this because their wake on lan doesn't work after its been asleep or turned off for a while this is the only solution I've found, with that added bonus of no forwarding *Smile

 

My WOL works from Sleep but not if the Computer is shutdown these days ...... but no android "box" for testing either ..... I guess it is somehow keeping the Connection "alive"

 

The settings in windows are really funky. It works for me now when its shut off... through the android box, but it didn't before. If I recall it was because the "only wake from magic packet" setting needed to be checked (the third one in power options for your NIC.) But strangely enough if that option is checked then I believe it will shut your NIC down after a period of time. Very bizarre. So it seems like if you're lucky enough to get it working without another local device you're stuck with only waking from sleep.