Hi Stephen The new airport extreme routers are able to keep track of which services are offered by which macs so that when they go to sleep the base station is able to wake them up, not sure about older base stations though.
Regards San -- MacAmbulance Sam Mullen 07747778022 [email protected] On 9 Dec 2010, at 09:57, Stephen Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Back to My Mac allows me access to my home iMac over the internet. However, > to save energy my iMac sleeps so it will be snoozing at any time that I might > try to access it away from home. > > In System Preferences > Energy Saver is the setting "Wake for Ethernet > access". > > What I would like to know is, does this only work when my iMac is connected > to an Apple Airport router or will it work with any make of router? Nobody at > the Apple store knew (didn't ask a 'Genius' though). > > P.S. I'm assuming that I'm understanding the purpose of this correctly in the > first place! > > Regards, > > Stephen > > > “Localisation stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but it > has the decisive argument in its favour that there will be no alternative.” ~ > Dr David Fleming: 1940-2010. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
