For three agonizing seconds, nothing happened.
He tried the basics first. He force-quit Anydesk on his laptop. He restarted his hotel Wi-Fi. He even tried using his phone as a hotspot, thinking the hotel’s firewall was blocking the UDP packet. Nothing. The office computer remained a cold, unresponsive brick.
Leo laughed. "You want to SSH into a thermostat to wake up a computer?"
He closed his laptop, lay back on the hotel pillow, and made a mental note: Always have a backup plan for the backup plan. And never trust Anydesk WOL without testing it from outside your own Wi-Fi first.
The status flickered. changed to "Starting..." changed to "Online - Unattended Access."
Frustration turned into a quiet panic. He called Leo.
For three agonizing seconds, nothing happened.
He tried the basics first. He force-quit Anydesk on his laptop. He restarted his hotel Wi-Fi. He even tried using his phone as a hotspot, thinking the hotel’s firewall was blocking the UDP packet. Nothing. The office computer remained a cold, unresponsive brick.
Leo laughed. "You want to SSH into a thermostat to wake up a computer?"
He closed his laptop, lay back on the hotel pillow, and made a mental note: Always have a backup plan for the backup plan. And never trust Anydesk WOL without testing it from outside your own Wi-Fi first.
The status flickered. changed to "Starting..." changed to "Online - Unattended Access."
Frustration turned into a quiet panic. He called Leo.