Tario70
Occasional Visitor
Okay, I'm seriously at the end of my rope & broke down & created an account because I am at a complete loss of what to do next.
I just picked up an RT-AC87U & am coming from a D-Link DIR-825. Wake-On-LAN worked flawlessly on the D-Link via the internet & my internal network. It does not on the AC87. I updated from the latest Stock firmware to Merlin's FW 378.50. I've reset the router several times to try different setups. Both the stock & Merlin's FW gave the same results. WoL is at best inconsistent & at worst doesn't work.
My Desktop PC is hardwired to the router. Always has been & still is.
Here's a few of the things I've tried.
This should be a simple port forward of the WoL packet. No other router I've owned has given me such a headache. WoL is a must for me so if I can't get this working I'm going to end up returning this router to NewEgg & going back to the DIR-825 for the time being.
I just picked up an RT-AC87U & am coming from a D-Link DIR-825. Wake-On-LAN worked flawlessly on the D-Link via the internet & my internal network. It does not on the AC87. I updated from the latest Stock firmware to Merlin's FW 378.50. I've reset the router several times to try different setups. Both the stock & Merlin's FW gave the same results. WoL is at best inconsistent & at worst doesn't work.
My Desktop PC is hardwired to the router. Always has been & still is.
Here's a few of the things I've tried.
- I set port forwarding to the broadcast IP on my network 192.168.1.255 (same as I had it on my D-Link) with UDP port 9 being forwarded.
- I tried setting port forwarding directly to my PC's IP instead of the broadcast IP
- I setup AiCloud with DDNS. Yay it works... Once or twice. Try it about 30 minutes later & now it doesn't work.
- Even within my network the AiCloud app is intermittent. It will work one time & then not the next.
- I have this app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/net-master-it-tools-lan-scanner/id470646694?mt=8 which I got for free one day. With the dlink it works flawlessly via my network & via the internet. With the AC87 it doesn't work at all.
This should be a simple port forward of the WoL packet. No other router I've owned has given me such a headache. WoL is a must for me so if I can't get this working I'm going to end up returning this router to NewEgg & going back to the DIR-825 for the time being.