Lost Password? No account yet? Sign up! Why bother?
  • Narrow screen resolution
  • Wide screen resolution
  • Auto width resolution
  • Increase font size
  • Decrease font size
  • Default font size

SmallNetBuilder - Small Network Help

  
Home arrow Home arrow All FAQ

Wireless Networking - General

Answer
Does Wake on LAN work with wireless networks?
Although both wired and wireless networks use MAC addressing, the format of a wireless frame is different than the format of a wired frame. Specifically, there is additional information carried in the header of a wireless frame that interferes with the 'magic packet' frame, preventing the target machine from detecting the wakeup signal.

Most Read

 
 

Over at the Forums

Don't send password in clear text upon registration
Don't send password in clear text upon (Main - not forum) registration

Vista / XP home workgroup setup?
I recently purchased a new HP desktop for the home (mainly for my wife), and it came with Vista 64bit. I also upgraded my laptop to Vista 64bit. Both...

IPCop Router
IPCop has just release its newest version today, 1.4.20 http://ipcop.org/ For all you small to enterprise size network admins, this is the router...

Navbar - forums links
On the main site, when hovering over things such as Wireless, NAS, LAN & WAN, etc. in the main nav bar, a secondary nav bar appears that shows...

WHS Power Pack 1 - Retest?
They say File transfer speed and I/O improvement. Will see a retest or review of other WHS products?

Slideshows

D-Link DNS-343 4-Bay Network Storage Enclosure Thecus N3200 RAID 5 NAS D-Link DIR-628 RangeBooster N Dual Band Router Adtran NetVanta 3120 Buffalo LinkStation Mini Intel Entry Storage System SS4200-E More
 
Go Shopping with PriceGrabber

Get Email Updates

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner once a day

 


This page took 0.194522857666 seconds to load.