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Wake MacBook on Wi-Fi without AirPort Extreme

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 20265634 views
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I know that Snow Leopard brought us the option to magically wake our computers from far away if you had an AirPort Extreme base station, but has anyone found a way to do this with a standard or ISP provided router? What about using a bridge device to hook the MacBook up to Ethernet but from another…

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Fix for: Wake MacBook on Wi-Fi without AirPort Extreme

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Macs that are capable of Wake on Wireless (WoW) and have it enabled will attempt to stay associated to the AP while asleep, and look for standard Wake on LAN magic packets. So any AP that will let the client stay associated and any solution that can…

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