Windows "Fast Startup" can put the network card into a state where it won't listen for magic packets. Go to > Power Options . Click "Choose what the power buttons do" . Click "Change settings that are currently unavailable."

For three agonizing seconds, nothing happened.

The next morning, Leo re-enabled broadcast forwarding. And Arjun never again assumed that a sleeping computer would hear him knocking from across the internet.

This is where AnyDesk users often get tripped up. AnyDesk utilizes a "mesh" approach for WoL. It generally cannot wake a computer over the internet directly without specific network configurations.

But it didn't.

If your hardware is ready, the message might be getting blocked by the gatekeeper: your router or firewall.

"I want to install a WOL package on it and send the magic packet from inside the network."

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Windows "Fast Startup" can put the network card into a state where it won't listen for magic packets. Go to > Power Options . Click "Choose what the power buttons do" . Click "Change settings that are currently unavailable."

For three agonizing seconds, nothing happened.

The next morning, Leo re-enabled broadcast forwarding. And Arjun never again assumed that a sleeping computer would hear him knocking from across the internet.

This is where AnyDesk users often get tripped up. AnyDesk utilizes a "mesh" approach for WoL. It generally cannot wake a computer over the internet directly without specific network configurations.

But it didn't.

If your hardware is ready, the message might be getting blocked by the gatekeeper: your router or firewall.

"I want to install a WOL package on it and send the magic packet from inside the network."