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basildane / WakeOnLAN

Wake On LAN, WakeOnLAN, shutdown software for Windows. A powerful WOL, ping, shutdown, GUI application.
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Hosts go into "offline" mode and APS needing network access lock/freeze up until going back to "online" #183

Open keeper-oregon opened 3 years ago

keeper-oregon commented 3 years ago

I am having a very intermittent issue with Zoom when a computer that is running WakeOnLan and all its hosts go into "offline" mode. My daughter's laptop running a TeleMed program has the same issue. Yesterday, I shutdown the computer running WakeOnLan and did not experience this issue. Today I plan on running the computer without the WakeOnLan AP.

Our ISP provided us a wireless router placed between our wireless router and the broadband connection and we did not experience any issues when connecting to this routers WiFi.

--Mark

keeper-oregon commented 3 years ago

Since the initial report, I have not experienced any "Network access lock/freeze up" when WakeOnLAN is not running when I was running Zoom. The time I forgot to shutwdown WakeOnLAN, both I and my daughter experience a "Network access lock/freeze up".

Moopere commented 3 years ago

I know you left this report a while back, but in case you're still circling the problem.

Installing and using WOL might have been coincidental to other network problems or changes at your location. WOL itself, as an application, won't be causing your LAN outages. Its the LAN outages that are causing WOL to see other systems on the LAN as 'offline' ... the network is broken in some way, WOL can't see other machines suddenly and therefore reports them as offline.

Likewise, once LAN network connectivity becomes a problem you are seeing 'Zoom' issues ... not unexpected if there are issues on the LAN preventing packets from moving about.

It sounds like you have have two wifi routers connected to your LAN and (possibly?) a non wifi router giving you internet access? Alls fine in theory, but there are site specific configurations that would need to be done to prevent potential problems with the two wifi routers interfering with each other at both the wired and wireless level ... and / or potential problems with DHCP servers usually present on out-of-box routers all being on the same network at the same time.