@ Phnx
Unbinding the movement would work, but I remember people talking about switching the 'lead' character in case the leader goes down.(via focus) That sort of implies a scheme for only sending movement commands to a single char at a time, while still broadcasting commands. I will have to experiment. I kinda like the idea of being able to broadcast while singly controlling a character, if it works. Of course, I am EQ1 PVE, and have an odd assortment of classes hehe.

Wake-On-Lan might be what I am looking for, reading up on it. Thanks for mentioning it, I remember seeing it in BIOS settings but never investigating.

I will check out Octopus too, was experimenting with Synergy for awhile but its kinda buggy and would occasionally die, leaving me without a mouse on the main computer, very annoying.

@Groovy
I was more interested in 'booting them', but combining that with WOL might give me all the functionality I need.