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