Windows 10: Wake-On-Lan No Longer Works Except for Magic Packet

Hi,


I have been using Wake-On-LAN for a number of years, but it recently seems to have begun acting differently. Although I have "only allow a magic packet to wake the computer" unchecked in my Ethernet device's settings, in fact only a magic packet will wake the computer. Previously, I was able to wake the computer just by connecting to it with Remote Desktop. It only began acting this way very recently. I actually have two computers that I access remotely, and it began acting this way on both of them around the same time, so it makes me wonder if it was caused by some Windows update. Is there some way I can debug why it's not waking for just any connection?


Buck

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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?

 

Wake On LAN is Not Working


I have been unable to get Wake on LAN functionality to work in Windows 10:

• I am attempting to do a Wakeup on LAN to my desktop computer which is running Windows 10 from my laptop which is also running Windows 10. The desktop computer is connected to my router through a wired Ethernet connection and the laptop is connected to the same router via a wireless connection
• I'm doing this within my Local Area Network so I'm not going through a router from the external network
• I've upgraded the driver on my network adapter to the latest version
• I've enabled all the required functionality in the BIOS to enable Wake on LAN
• I've turned on all the required settings in my network adapter to enable Wake on LAN
• I've disabled "Fast Startup" in Windows 10
• I'm using the "Wake on LAN" software application from Aquila Technology
• The software is installed on both my desktop and laptop and I've tested it with the desktop in "listening" mode and verified that the desktop receives "magic" wake-up packets when it is up-and-running
• When my desktop system is powered down and I send it a Magic Packet in exactly the same way as I did when it was powered up, nothing happens and it doesn't respond to the wake-up packet

Any suggestions of what I can do to further troubleshoot this problem?

Thanks,

 

Wake-On-Lan only works when I disable NIC "magic packet only" option


I'm running Windows 10 Pro on an Asus P8Z68-VLX motherboard with a Realtek PCIe GBE family NIC. If I tick the "Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer" option in the Power Management options of the NIC I can't wake the PC using the Wake-On-Lan feature app from another Windows 10 PC. If I untick this option then wake-on-lan works fine. I've updated the NIC driver to the latest version (from Device Manager) but it didn't help.
The problem with leaving this option unticked is that other events seem to wake the NIC/PC at various times of the day, which I don't want.
Any idea how I can get the "only allow a magic packet" option to work as designed?