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If a computer at home is asleep, another of your devices on the same local network wakes it when you need it. The device list shows which device can be woken.
Shown: Mac
You wake a sleeping device with one click: if another device on its local network can wake it, the device list on the Network page says “Sleeping · wakeable”. “Wake” in the device’s panel asks that other device to do it.
You decide per computer on the Network page under “Wake”: “Wake on access” (off at first) lets another device on the same network wake this computer when somebody from your network accesses it. “Wake devices on the local network” (on at first) lets this computer wake your sleeping devices.
On iPhone, iPad and Android “Wake” appears in the network page’s device list under the sleeping device. A phone only asks another device; it wakes no devices itself and cannot be woken this way.
After sleep or a network change DeskRanger reconnects by itself.
Everything step by step, for every platform:
A second device of your own that is on the same local network and allows waking. On the sleeping device “Wake on access” and the system’s setting must be on.
A phone cannot be woken this way. DeskRanger does wake a sleeping Android device by itself when you connect.
Your devices reach each other under simple names and fixed addresses, end-to-end encrypted and only among themselves. You do not need to open anything on your router.
You reach the NAS, printer or camera at home from anywhere through one of your computers as the gateway. The devices in the home network do not need DeskRanger.
On hotel or café Wi-Fi you go online through one of your own computers, as if you were at home. The path there is encrypted, with no third-party VPN provider.