In this Windows 10 guide, we will walk you through the steps to enable and use Wake on LAN to turn on remote computers in the network. Usually, this feature comes in handy to maintain a connection to your computer to access files and applications while minimizing power usage since when not in use, you can put the device to sleep.Īfter enabling Wake on LAN inside the Basic Input Output System (BIOS) or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) on supported hardware, and then in the Windows 10 network card (or USB to Ethernet adapter), you can use many third-party tools to send a magic packet over the network containing the MAC address of the remote computer to wake it up.

You can think of it as a remote power button to your computer.

On computing, Wake on LAN (WoL) is a networking standard protocol that provides the ability to configure a device to be started from a low power state using a special signal over the local network (also referred to as a magic packet).