Wake on Lan over Wireless possible?

homestarmy

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I have two machines at my home that I remote into all of the time. I was just curious if there is any way to wake them up remotely over wireless without having to walk to the machine and turn it on myself...
 

Nothinman

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IIRC WOL requires a 'magic' packet be sent to the host to be woke up, so as long as you have a way to send that packet and you can get the machine to leave the wifi connected while the box is asleep it should work.