
We hope it will, some day, but for now, you can only wake up devices that have a “hard connection.” That makes it most suitable for office PCs, home theatre units and home/media servers.
Computer connected by cable to your main router: Wake-on-LAN doesn’t work over Wi-Fi. In most cases, though, you’ll be able to set everything up and get each component talking, with a bit of effort. It’s still a bit different on every system: where the setting is in your BIOS, how your router supports it, and whether everything will play nicely together. Here’s how to get started.Wake-on-LAN technology hasn’t actually changed all that much in the three years since we first tackled it. Wake-on-LAN isn’t a new technology, but with the increasing number of smartphones making their way to the market, it’s high time we looked at how you can make a home theatre PC, or any hard-wired system in your house, wake up from anywhere with free tools and a bit of tinkering.