What's a cheap wireless router that has wake on LAN?

[tracerit]

I've been using Verizon's Actiontec mi424wr which doesn't have native Wake on LAN. I don't want to spend too much on a router but I don't want to skimp on quality either.

 

[KingFatty]

You could get a router that is upgradeable to DD-WRT, which will then provide the control panel for wake on lan. Here is a list of compatible routers. It's nice, you just log in to the router control panel, and click the button to wake the corresponding computer:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices

 

[JackMDS]

Locally it can be done with this - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wake_on_lan.html

Over the Internet try to install and use Team Viewer.

http://www.teamviewer.com/en/help/401-How-does-Wake-on-LAN-with-TeamViewer-work.aspx

Both of the above are Free

 

[azazel1024]

If you are just talking about support for WOL from the internet to a home computer

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/6790

Basically setup port forwarding for port 9, UDP and forward to your subnet x.x.x.255 (broadcast IP address). Then you just need a WOL client on the device outside of your network to send a magic packet to your routers WAN IP address. If local, all you have to do is send the magic packet on your local network using a WOL client.

Or do you want a router that has an actual built in WOL interface to do things like store different machines/NICs so you can go in to the router's management page, select a machine and hit "wake up"? If that is the case, DD-WRT and I think DD-WRT unless you want to get in to some enterprise routers or L3 switches.

 

[JackMDS]

IIf that is the case, DD-WRT and I think DD-WRT unless you want to get in to some enterprise routers or L3 switches.

I do not know what the OP needs.

That said he mentioned "Verizon's Actiontec mi424wr".

Actiontec (a lot of Action and Not so much Tech) does not take DD-WRT and does not support WOL (I am sure that Verizon knows it and probably is happy to keep it this way).

In some other cases One might be able to set his/her Modem/Router to work as a Modem only and use his/her own DD-WRT Router.

However just like No WOL, setting Actiontech to work as a Modem only is problematic too.

 

[azazel1024]

I dunno. It took me about 3 minutes to set my actiontec in to bridge mode only. Its only something like 4 or 5 levers to jiggle to get it to work in bridge mode.

For port forwarding, it is fewer steps and it does work to port forward magic packets as I had mine setup previously to do that.

Port forward port 9, UDP to 192.168.1.255 in my case and viola, desktop wakes up upon command over the internet using the proper client. That was when I was using it as a router. In bridge mode, I just switched the port forwarding options to my netgear router and it just worked.