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Huh, I'm surprised that the idea of wake-on-wifi makes conceptual sense to begin with. I mean, with a wired LAN the network card can listen for the magic WoL packet while otherwise being in a very low-power state, but with wifi I'd expect that the thing would have to be fully "on" because of all the transmission overhead needed to maintain the connection. Wired wake-on-lan is a purely OSI layer 2 thing (the card just listens for its own MAC address), but how would wake-on-wifi even know which SSID it's supposed to be listening to without the OS running?

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