#Teamviewer wake on lan set up Pc

You will still have to enable Wake-on-LAN in the BIOS and device manager, however.Ĭhris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek.

You won't have to set up port-forwarding, use third-party tools, or worry about the remote IP address.

#Teamviewer wake on lan set up Pc

TeamViewer will send the Wake-on-LAN information to the one PC running TeamViewer, and that PC can send the Wake-on-LAN packets from within the network. You can then 'Wake' the other four PCs from within TeamViewer if you've set this up correctly. Four of them are powered off, and one is powered on with TeamViewer running. For example, let's say you have five different PCs at home. TeamViewer allows you to use 'TeamViewer IDs within your network' to wake a remote PC. Click the Configure button next to Wake-on-LAN to set them up. You'll find these options under Extras > Options in TeamViewer. We'll use TeamViewer as an example here because it's the best solution for remotely accessing a PC's desktop or even the files on its hard drive in our opinion. Remote access programs like TeamViewer and Parallels Access now have Wake-on-LAN support built-in, so you can skip some of the more tedious setup process and wake your PC with the remote-access program you already use.