I can't explain why it works when it's turned off, some misunderstanding somewhere there, but let me tell you how WOL works and maybe some more will come clear.
When you turn a modern PC off by its own power switch (not with a power bar), you don't really turn it all off. Small bits of it stay on, and the power supply makes a trickle of power available for those small bits. One of the small bits is (part of) the network card. If your computer is like mine, there's a LED on the network card and it will be lit. There's enough intelligence staying on in the network card to recognize a so-called "magic packet" which says, more or less "Hey, you, wake up" and the address of the network card. The network card has a cable to yank the main power supply and wake the PC all the way up. The operating system, when rudely awoken this way, has to know what has happened, so it needs Wakeup-On-Lan (WOL) support (but most do these days). Hope this helps. -- Michaelwagner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21480 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
