Windows 10: WOL over internet has stopped working?

Helloooo r/windows10!

hoping someone can point me in the right direction as i'm tearing my hair out.

I've been using WOL to wake my PC from shutdown both on LAN and over the internet for 3-4 months and its all worked fine.

I have the port forwarded in my router, I have a static IP address from my ISP and I have been capturing the packets which shows that even when using WOL over the internet, my PC is receiving the packets.

HOWEVER - in the last month or so, I have not been able to reliably wake my PC over the internet. WOL still works every time, but over the internet doesn't.

Strange behaviour however - if I turn my PC, and then shut it down, and wake via the internet... it wakes up. If I leave my PC for any amount of time beyond a few minutes, it won't wake via the internet, but it still WOL which rules out any sort of power saving.

I've made sure the adapter drivers are up to date, i've rolled them back, i've turned off hibernation, i've added a registry entry to wakeons5.... so the only thing I can think is that its something to do with build 18362.



any ideas?

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WOL Stopped Working

My wife has a Packard Bell TJ68 laptop previously running Windows 7. I have a NAS which normally sleeps and the laptop send WOL packets to wake up the NAS when a user logs on.

When I upgraded to Windows 10 the sending of the WOL packets no longer works. It makes no difference whether I connect up a wired connection or use the wireless. I have tried from the commandline (Wolcmd) and various utilities.

I know WOL is working because a Linux Netbook wakes the NAS successfully as does my Windows 7 desktop.

It then dawned on me that maybe the identical problem with my sons Windows 8 HP laptop, which I had put down to different hardware (and he's had to live with) is actually related to Windows 8/10 not the hardware.

I've had windows update look for drivers but the fact that wired or wireless, two machines, neither work says that it's not drivers.

If I can't find a solution I'll have to go back to Windows 7. Just to be clear this is NOT a problem using WOL to wake up the laptop, this is the laptop failing to send WOL packets after upgrading to Windows 10.

 

Laptop updated to 1809. Can't get WOL to send out...

Not sure the topic is exactly accurate. Here's the story:

• Have been successful sending WOL to 2 other PCs in the house
• Had problems with laptop and sent to HP. They upgraded it to 1809
• Now when I send WOL packets the other PCs will not wake up

Given that it was working fine on those PCs before, and the noted changes are to the PC sending the packet, I'm assuming that my sending PC needs something configured.

My searches on WOL only find stuff about setting it up on the remote PC so it will wake up.

Any suggestions about why my sending PC is not sending?

 

WoL not working in Windows 10

Then check with RealTek and WoL as there is nothing in Windows stopping it.

Rob - SpiritX