I have been beating my brains out with this and seem to be getting no where with it so here is my scenario, what I would like to do and what I have thought of (that but not sure if they will work)
Basic setup
Using insomnia to keep the computer from sleeping and then closing at a specific time.
I have thought about pinging the sony's mac address with the scheduler so that when the sony turns on, the pc will wake so I can stream to the tv and when turned off, add an event to put pc back to sleep (all while maintaining a disabled internet connection). I would use insomnia to keep PC from sleeping until sony is turned off - right now, it enters sleep mode during streaming because there is no disable sleep function in serviio.
If my pc is in sleep mode is the internet connection shut down or just dormant?
If my pc is in sleep state can it send a ping to the Sony and receive it?
Due to having limits on my bandwidth I am trying to curb all internet usage that is not expressly requested by the user. Such as - opening firefox, download manager, newsreader, etc. is this possible. I would even be happy with just closing the internet connection on screen saver and sleep mode then enabling on wake because I know I will be physically using it at that time. I am trying limit bandwidth leakage through small update programs as well which I am using the event viewer and scheduler to find programs that are sending and receiving information from the internet that I am not requesting. Updates are disabled. I know serviio media server leaks bandwidth or data and I have no way to shut it down without shutting down serviio. I could open serviio upon a wake and close on sleep if I could get the PC to wake on power up, ping etc of the sony media streamer.
I have thought about using wake on lan as well but I am not familiar enough with how the networking side of it works. Can I wake it from a specific mac address or will the exede sat router wake the pc as well because all of the connections come through the single lan on the PC????
I know I will be twisting some heads here but any help or direction would be greatly appreciated - it gets expensive at 10 bucks a gig overage.....
thank you in advance
john
Basic setup
- Internet connection - exede satellite - monthly limits.... connected to Belkin g wan
- Emachine t-5224 PC running - vista home premium SP2 32 bit - connected to belkin g through lan
- Old dell running xp - connecting wirelessly - not to concerned with this one YET....
- Sony SMP-200 streaming media player connecting wirelessly through router to PC runnning serviio.
- Deny/disable connections on each pc to the internet only if certain programs have started or the PC is in actual use - either one.
- Bring the PC out of sleep mode when the sony turns on - and not go back to sleep until the sony is turned off. (mind you - while denying or disabling the above internet connection)
Using insomnia to keep the computer from sleeping and then closing at a specific time.
I have thought about pinging the sony's mac address with the scheduler so that when the sony turns on, the pc will wake so I can stream to the tv and when turned off, add an event to put pc back to sleep (all while maintaining a disabled internet connection). I would use insomnia to keep PC from sleeping until sony is turned off - right now, it enters sleep mode during streaming because there is no disable sleep function in serviio.
If my pc is in sleep mode is the internet connection shut down or just dormant?
If my pc is in sleep state can it send a ping to the Sony and receive it?
Due to having limits on my bandwidth I am trying to curb all internet usage that is not expressly requested by the user. Such as - opening firefox, download manager, newsreader, etc. is this possible. I would even be happy with just closing the internet connection on screen saver and sleep mode then enabling on wake because I know I will be physically using it at that time. I am trying limit bandwidth leakage through small update programs as well which I am using the event viewer and scheduler to find programs that are sending and receiving information from the internet that I am not requesting. Updates are disabled. I know serviio media server leaks bandwidth or data and I have no way to shut it down without shutting down serviio. I could open serviio upon a wake and close on sleep if I could get the PC to wake on power up, ping etc of the sony media streamer.
I have thought about using wake on lan as well but I am not familiar enough with how the networking side of it works. Can I wake it from a specific mac address or will the exede sat router wake the pc as well because all of the connections come through the single lan on the PC????
I know I will be twisting some heads here but any help or direction would be greatly appreciated - it gets expensive at 10 bucks a gig overage.....
thank you in advance
john
... But we always find a way to make do.