Recommend some software to wake up my home PC from Touch

[procter]

I'm just starting using Orb and realize that my 24*7 home PC is a power hog. It would be really nice to leave it on sleep mode for the most of time then from the phone to wake it up before I want to use my Orb service.

My old desktop@home: Celeron 1.3M/512MB SDRAM/200G harddrive. Using Win XP pro SP3 connected to Linkysis router. orb is set to start service without me logged in the desktop.

Phone: Touch with WM 6.1

Please recommend a software that can do the job via sprint network. Thanks a lot.

[tobeychris]

You could try Remote Desktop Mobile.... you'd probably need to set yourself up a DDNS service which your router should support, then be able to log onto your computer from anywhere, including your phone. I'm not sure if it will actually wake the computer from sleep though, never tried it. I would think yes though.

[Shadowmite]

Set wake on lan to enable on the pc, and on the phone get the software Magic Packet... Think that's what I used...

[Shadowmite]

I neglected to mention I use a DD-WRT capable router at home and turn on the VPN server so I can vpn to my home lan, then send the WOL packet, then I hit the box I wanted... When finished I normally vnc to it and shut it down again.

[fredcatsmommy]

Check out www.logmein.com. Works like a charm for me.