At work, we have a typical small business setup with a single server and several workstations. Each workstation has the ability for remote connection for working at home, which requires the computer be available on demand. To save power, we want the computer to be in sleep mode when it is not being used. So to make the computer available when needed a simple...

A feature I have come to love is wake on lan which allows you to start a computer remotely across the network. One limitation to it, however, is that you can only send the ‘magic packet’ across your local network. Well, if you want to be able to wake your computer from anywhere then check out this tool from DSL Reports. Using the Wake On Lan tool on...