What is Wake On Lan (WOL)

[ShawnD1]

What is this? I have it on all my motherboards but I never plug anything into it (it's like a 4 prong thing).

http://www.intel.com/network/connect...ake_on_lan.htm


Better site

[BustedAvi]

what would you plug into it. ive herd of this feature but i have never looked into it

[thePh@r@oh]

most new nic cards comes with a little cable that plugs fromt he NIC to the MOBO

[soulja]

its like u can wake up ur lan from another location..

[Gait_Keeper]

good info GZ3

another one of those questions I always wanted to ask but didn't want to seems stupid

"the only stupid question is the one you don't ask"

I need to remember this

[soulja]

its never stupid to ask, just if u ask the most obvious questions is stupid, like what is a cd rom drive lol

[muno]

Hehe... I remember back when I worked in polytechnic.
I had a bunch of computers with nics, connecting the wol cable and plugging the power in caused the psu to explode I broke at least three psus before I figured it was that...

Now, when one of the computer we have at my current job got wol set on, it was unable to shutdown. You would shut it down, and it would spring to life within 5 seconds
WOL is something I don't want
-M

[Gait_Keeper]

Originally posted by soulja
its never stupid to ask, just if u ask the most obvious questions is stupid, like what is a cd rom drive lol

ok then, what is it?

[soulja]

what is what??