Hi all. I just purchased a new computer running Windows 7 Professional x64. I'd like to save power by having it sleep after an hour, but I would also like to be able to Remote Desktop into it at my leisure.

I set up a static IP and have port forwarding set up on the router. If the computer is awake, the RDP connection works just fine.

I downloaded and installed Wake-On-Lan thanks to this article

If I put my new computer to sleep and send the magic packet from my old computer inside of my home network it wakes up. If I do the same thing, however, from my work computer outside the network it does not.

I figured the Firewall was blocking the incoming traffic, but nothing in the Windows Firewall logs points to this happening.

I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions or any tests I can run through in order to narrow down what the problem might be.

Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to offer.