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Re: Wake On Lan over the Internet
not_real@xxxxxxx (Beachcomber) wrote in news:43fd86b0.31001781
@newsgroups.comcast.net:
<snip>
> Just a few years ago, you needed a special LAN card that recognized
> Magic Packets for automatic wake-up of the PC. Just any old LAN card
> would not do this function. Also, there was a special jumper cable
> that needed to be installed in the PC as well, attaching the PC's
> power up circuitry to the LAN card.
<snip>
The original poster already wrote that the wake-up works. It fails if he
waits some unspecified amount of time.
I don't think that the LAN card or the jumper cable are a problem if the
wake-up works sometimes.
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