Wake on LAN not working

unexpected_ace wrote:

Thank you for your reply. I have a time capsule and my computer recognizes the sleep proxy server when checked through terminal. As the OP mentioned, I had WOL working fine in 10.10.3. After 10.10.4 update and ever since WOL works very short term then stops. I even tried downgrading back to 10.10.3 and it was working again. Clearly too many features have been added in OSX to still be running that so I eventually updated again. I'm not sure what changed to prevent the wake.

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This still doesn't work for me. Can anyone offer any help? I am able to wake whenever I want as long as I am on the local network. If I disable wifi and use my phones network I am able to wake for a limited time from TeamViewer and the Mocha WOL app, then it won't do anything anymore. I have UDP Port 9 forwarded on my router already and Wake for Network Access checked in my settings. Not sure what else needs to be done. This is all I have seen in forums.

unexpected_ace wrote:

This still doesn't work for me. Can anyone offer any help? I am able to wake whenever I want as long as I am on the local network. If I disable wifi and use my phones network I am able to wake for a limited time from TeamViewer and the Mocha WOL app, then it won't do anything anymore. I have UDP Port 9 forwarded on my router already and Wake for Network Access checked in my settings. Not sure what else needs to be done. This is all I have seen in forums.

Wake-on-LAN is not a protocol that can be routed. For one thing, the MAC address is not something that can be used to address your Mac across the internet.

If you want to wake your Mac from across the internet you need a Bonjour Sleep Proxy server

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_Sleep_Proxy>

There are some routers that offer this service (Apple's Airport Extreme, Time Capsule and Airport Express being a few Apple branded Bonjour Sleep Proxy servers). Also Apple TV will offer to be a sleep proxy server.

Thank you for your reply. I have a time capsule and my computer recognizes the sleep proxy server when checked through terminal. As the OP mentioned, I had WOL working fine in 10.10.3. After 10.10.4 update and ever since WOL works very short term then stops. I even tried downgrading back to 10.10.3 and it was working again. Clearly too many features have been added in OSX to still be running that so I eventually updated again. I'm not sure what changed to prevent the wake.

I haven't been able to wake my computer remotely since I updated to 10.10.4. Even if I downgrade back to 10.10.3 with no other changes it will work again. I have used an app called RemoteBoot previously to wake it from my phone and ipad, but that's no longer working. I have also tried using teamviewer to wake it remotely.

Wake will work if I do it within a few minutes after it goes to sleep. If you wait too long it is as if the system goes into a hibernation mode where the system no longer accepts network packets to wake.

The results are the same in 10.10.5 also.

Did you ever find a solution to this? I am still having issues.

Anyone have any input on this?

Any reply on this issue?