Wake On LAN

Disclaimer: This utility is provided as-is and the developer does not provide troubleshooting for Wake On LAN.

A Wake On LAN utility is available in MobiMouse since version 1.5.3 which allows you to "wake up" a suspended PC from your BlackBerry via WiFi. Wake On LAN only works if it is enabled in your PC BIOS and your BIOS supports this feature. You must also enable this feature within Windows Device Manager by enabling it in the "Power Management" tab of your network adapter and setting the "Advanced" tab to receive Magic Packets.

In our tests, we found that 50% of our computers support Wake On LAN and worked as expected.

Wake On LAN requires a wired ethernet connection between your router and the network connector on your motherboard. If you are using a PCI based network adapter you will need to connect a special wire from the PCI card to your motherboard. Although some wireless cards support Wake On Wireless LAN it has not been tested with this utility.

Wake On LAN is available as a menu option on the first screen in MobiMouse.

You will need to enter the IP & MAC Address of the PC you want to wake up.

We recommend using the Broadcast IP address of your subnet, which ends in 255 (eg. 192.168.1.255).

The MAC address is available in Windows by opening a command prompt and issuing the command "ipconfig /all".

The MAC Address should be entered in the following format: 00-00-00-00-00-00

Press the "Wake Up" button to send the magic packet via the WiFi connection on your BlackBerry.

Disclaimer: This utility is provided as-is and the developer does not provide troubleshooting for Wake On LAN.