david001 wrote:
yes WOL works great for me
i’m using Depicus Wake On Lan , tested it in both LAN & WAN and it works correctly
Thank you David for telling me about this. I just tried it and it works. I was all along under the impression that WOL does not work on EX2 but you are absolutely correct, sir. It does work on EX2. Sometimes even veteran EX2 users can learn useful stuff from others 
I always could restart or shutdown the EX2 over the Internet via the dashboard but with this capability, I can now shut it down and restart much later at any time. This is really useful. Thanks again.
For others interested, check out this quick YouTube tutorial on how to use the free tool David001 mentioned, here → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onP-lo-6V3Q The relevant part of the tutorial starts at the 2:35 mark (making the batch file part - but the part between 1:27 to 1:57 is also needed and relevant…skip all the other stuff until the 2:35 mark).
To get the MAC address of your EX2, SSH in, type the command shown in the pic below and press enter. The EX2’s MAC address will be the six pairs of alphanumeric characters separated by colons (redacted partially in the pic for security reasons). The MAC address can then be used as demonstrated in the YouTube tutorial (above) but leave out the colons. Another thing, this will work best if you assign a static IP to the EX2 on your router beforehand (some call it reserving an IP on the router). This gives you the capability to remotely startup your EX2 over the Internet if it crashed for some reason or was shut down deliberately by you. Of course to do this over the Internet you’ll also have to setup port forwarding for port 3389. Without that port forwarding, you can still use this to remotely start up the EX2 as long as your other computer is within the same network as the EX2 is. Good luck!
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