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<blockquote data-quote="NickName" data-source="post: 80181" data-attributes="member: 21675">Dale_mac,Just curious why you need you to wake up your PCs in the middle of the night anyway?Why not let them copy whenever necessary (when the PCs are normally on))?&nbsp; I have no problems with my PCs copying the 1 meg file in the background and running Mediportal or other apps at the same time. Even my 1GHZ pentium manages it...Anyway, in answer to your question about waking PCs... Most new-ish PCs can be set in the BIOS to turn on at a certain Time/Date. In case you don't know, you press DEL at bootup to get into the BIOS settings and then hunt around to set the start/boot time.Alternatively, PCs can be woken by their own network card when they detect network traffic.So you could have one PC turn on at certain time and then the other PC turn on automatically when it detects the first PC's network traffic.Hope this helps.Regards,Nickname</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NickName, post: 80181, member: 21675"] Dale_mac, Just curious why you need you to wake up your PCs in the middle of the night anyway? Why not let them copy whenever necessary (when the PCs are normally on))? I have no problems with my PCs copying the 1 meg file in the background and running Mediportal or other apps at the same time. Even my 1GHZ pentium manages it... Anyway, in answer to your question about waking PCs... Most new-ish PCs can be set in the BIOS to turn on at a certain Time/Date. In case you don't know, you press DEL at bootup to get into the BIOS settings and then hunt around to set the start/boot time. Alternatively, PCs can be woken by their own network card when they detect network traffic. So you could have one PC turn on at certain time and then the other PC turn on automatically when it detects the first PC's network traffic. Hope this helps. Regards, Nickname [/QUOTE]

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