Remote Booting

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  1. Monkey5900

    Monkey5900 Master Guru

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    Whats the best way to about this? I have a laptop running as a private server under my desk, i want it to be remote bootable from my desktop PC. I know i can do this by the LAN, but i don't want to trail a second cable from my router. It has a wireless but not sure if it could be used like that?

    Any ideas guys?

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  2. Schizoid

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    As far as I am aware WLAN cannot support Wake On LAN like in most network cards therefore it is not possible
     
  3. Monkey5900

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    any other ways to do it without going under my desk and turning it on/off ?
     
  4. inklimited

    inklimited Ancient Guru

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    Put it on top of your desk.

    Although, what you were thinking would be cool. You could park outside a Starbucks, or, I dunno, Microsoft, and turn on everyones lappy, do a bit of packet sniffing, and be gone with noone the wiser. I think that is why it is not possible.
     

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    You BIOS may support Wake up time so it switches itself on at a certain time or Wake up by modem etc and dial it up to switch it on
     
  6. Monkey5900

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    isn't there a USB wake form? I have a USB to USB connection.
     
  7. grunger

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    You could buy a Media Centre Remote Control pack. (£20)

    And us the wake on USB option if your bios supports it, then use the remote to fire the PC up
     
  8. Tat3

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    Just keep laptop power on all the time ?

    I don't know what kind of hardware you got there and for what use you are going to use that server. If your going to build ftp server I would recommend using wired connection. I needed to transfer some files from my laptop (802.11g/b) and modem is some A-Link dsl2+ 54mbps wireless stuff. I got 1,6mb/s wireless and when I used wired connection I got 10mb/s. So if you need to get large files fast, use wired.
     
  9. Monkey5900

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    it will be a remote file system (ftp) but primarily a SETI project.
     

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