[wkw427]

So, I might fancy having my desktop stay in a sleep state, waking whenever I need to access it for a file or something, so I tried to use WOL. The nic and bios support it, however when I enable it...

The machine only stays off off for 5-10 seconds at a time. I think this is because instead of waking from only a magic packet, it is waking from ANY packet.

I have a version fios MI424WR router, I believe. Not 100% sure, will have to check when I get home, but does anyone have any idea why it won't work properly?

 

[Wand3r3r]

More likely its your power settings not WOL that is waking the unit up.

In your situation WOL would never wakeup at all. You have nothing generating the magic packet.