Set up your router for Port Forwarding to the PC in your home or office that you want to connect to.Set up your PC BIOS to enable Wake On Lan.The steps involved in how to set up TeamViewer for wake on lan are fairly straightforward: Why keep your computers on 24/7 just because once in a while you have to log in to work from home or the other way around? Using TeamViewer and configuring Wake On Lan is a perfect solution that allows you to be both environmentally conscious and able to be more productive. If they go into Sleep mode, you won't be able to connect from outside the firewall. Of course, you could set up a VPN if your Router supports it but that's another layer of complexity.Īnother major problem with the raw port forwarding and Remote Desktop is that you have to keep the computers on at all times. I use TeamViewer software for this purpose. For any real work from home or home accounting from work – or whatever it is you do that you wouldn’t want anyone to snoop on – you need a safe, encrypted tunnel. This strategy works and is a quick and dirty way to connect and do something on the remote computer, but I wouldn't advocate working remotely this way, especially if you need to do anything sensitive. In a previous video and post, I showed you how to set up port forwarding on your router to Allow Remote Desktop Connections from Outside Your Network. I had to learn how to set up TeamViewer for Wake On Lan so that I could log in to my work computer from home and my home computer from work, and allow both computers to go into Sleep Mode in order to save electricity.

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