lost most control of my fingers so pleaqe bear with me, it hurts like hell 2
type.
my experience it doesnt work worth squat
i mostly have been working with asus motherboards due 2 customer requests
but
fr the past 3 years i've tried wol on thre asus cusl2 ceries, p4s533, p4c800
& 800e deluxe mobos and it works 1/2 assed
now the early wol used a seperate wol 4 wire connector from nic to
motherboard, then they went to using a pci bus event so they did away with
the seperate 4 wire wol cable (linksys 5.0x series) now the problems began
because some mobos use a pci bus event for wol meaning they cant use the
older cards with the wol cable BUT.. when they strted using the pci bus
signal (called pm event - or something similar - my medws wont allow me 2
remeber right now) anyway since we now have usb i the usb hubs ande
controllers and other perphereals interfere with this wol signal and u get
various problems such as not being able 2 turn your computer off - it resets
and reboots instead of shutting down because it sees another signal on the
pci bus and it assumes its the wol signal(usially caused by usb stuff)..
then with the p4c800 type mobos that use gigabit networking (i graduated 2
gigabit 10/100/1000 nics last winter) that created even more problems
soooo.... in the past 2 years i have contacted asus numerous times about
these wol problems they say they will call me back they never do so i tried
2 solve em myself until i became more incapacitated (had post-polio now ms -
stopped me cold)
so.. if u are running standard stock run of the mill no addition computers u
maybe able 2 get wol working but then u hve 2 fight the dogonne software..
xp sees 2 hang at times or when u try 2 start up the computer locks..
so yesw and no it works and doesnt work.. but at least u learn a lot
trying...
btw i looked into all this because my customers and myself are bedridden or
incapacitated in some fashion and may have our computers in other rooms (i
have 2 tower machines and notebook next 2 me in bed. 4 computers in my
computer test room, one in my wifes room, one in the living room, one server
in my utility room all ntworked either 10/100 or 10/100/1000) gigabit
networks are cheap as the dickens and are a lot faster.. u can get
10/100/1000 cards for as low as 12 buxs (newegg.com) and if u need a switch
the hawkins 5 port is less then 80 buxs.
they also auto recognize crossover so going directly from one nic to another
u dont hve 2 worry about getting a crossover cable any more..
for your info:
my transfer rates between machines range from 35 MBsec (bytes not bits) to
57 MB/sec on my raid systems (I have a raid system using the p4c8003 delux
mobo and a promise tx4000 controller) that controller has 4 individual ports
instead of 2 so each drive is using its own port - no contention there. i'm
using 4 - 160 gig 8 meg cache wd drves (i really dont care for the 8 meg
caches i really think its maybe stopping this controller from maxing out but
it does do one heck of a job.. was using a raptor 2 boot my newest machine
but my raid is so fast i now use it 4 booting..wish i could post this hdtach
display but basically the graph is fluxuating around 180,000 (read speed
average of 109,644.0kps) the raptor about 60,000.0kps this raid controller
screams for ide.. i thik it'd do better irf i could shut off these big
caches thats my nrext step..
much more but i didnt wnna bore u with unecessary info..
hope all this info is help full
sorry 4 the errors i just noticed my illuminated keybd was 1/2 lit and
causing errors onto of my own hand damage generated errors.
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"Paul Murphy" <> wrote in message
news:IC5yc.13475$...
> Many new motherboards do WOL via a PCI 2.2 compatible bus, older ones
often
> had a WOL header whish was used to connect to the NIC via a special cable
> both types are enabled through BIOS settings. WOL is very handy for
network
> admins, especially when combined with PXE capability on the NIC. This
> enables things like re-imaging machines remotely. In my expeince (having
> worked as a computer tech in a school) it works well.
>
> Paul
> "Marcus" <> wrote in message
> news: om...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to upgrade my motherboard and would very much like to
> > have the wake-on-lan feature so I can start my computer and access it
> > remotely. I have never used this feature before. Does it work well? Do
> > most motherboards include it these days? I see little mention of it in
> > the specs of many boards.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Marcus
>
>
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