WakeMeOnLan Provides Quick Compact Net Survey

Sometimes, accidental uses of software outstrip intended uses. Let me explain: my son’s PC is up in his bedroom. It’s about as far from my office as you can get in my house. Because I’m always tinkering with the PCs at home, I like to remote into them. But he’s away at school most weekdays, and out and about on weekends. So we’ve got his machine configured to go into deep sleep (S3/S5) while he’s not using it. Thus, I found myself learning how to enable the Magic Packet for Wake-On-LAN (WOL) so I can start that machine up from my office, and then get an RDP session going. In researching the topic, I stumbled across Nir Sofer/Nirsoft’s excellent WakeMeOnLan utility. In using that utility I realized it shows a list of all active IP addresses on the LAN, which makes it superior as a simple LAN scanner as well. Not only will it let me do what I want, WakeMeOnLan provides quick compact net survey. Here’s what that looks like:

Not only does it offer remote wake-up/shutdown, it also shows every device on the LAN (including our Alexa, printers, and even my otherwise unlabeled WAP). Good stuff!
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