A guide to remotely waking & sleeping your Plex Windows 10 Server via Remote Access & WOL

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@stanleywebb

One more thing to check - make sure your Network type is set to Private not Public in Windows. Maybe this only affect Qualcomm cards, but I struggled with this for hours? All my wake setting were overridden by Windows and ignored until I re-assured it that my PC wasn’t “out in the wild”.

How to change Windows 10 network location from Public to Private | TinkerTry

This is what fixed it for me. After hours of banging my head and buying a new NIC, I just needed to change this to private. Now it wakes up when I access it.