Chapter 6 USB Application 5. Click OK. Tips: The router can share 32 volumes at most. You can click not need to share. 6. 3. on the page to detach the corresponding volume you do Media Sharing The feature of Media Sharing allows you to view photos, play music and watch movies stored on the USB disk directly from DLNA-supported devices, such as your computer, pad and PS2/3. 6. 3. 1. Access the USB disk 1.
Chapter 6 USB Application Now the DLNA-supported devices (such as your computer and pad) connected to the router can detect and play the media files on the USB disks. 1. Open the Windows Media Player. 2. Click the media server name (such as Genie Media Severs) under the list of Other Libraries, then you can directly view photos, play music and watch movies that you share on the USB disks. Windows computer Pad 6. 3. 2. • Use a third-party DLNA-supported player.
Chapter 6 USB Application Tips: The router can share 32 volumes at most. You can click not need to share. 6. 4. on the page to detach the corresponding volume you do Printer Sharing The feature of Printer Sharing helps you share a printer with different computers connected to the router. Note: Printers unlisted may be incompatible with the router. You can check Printer Compatibility List to verify whether your printer is supported by the router: http://www.tp-link.com/common/compatible/print-server/.
Chapter 6 USB Application 4. Access the Printer You should set the shared printer as Auto-Connect Printer on every computer that needs printer service. 1 ) Double-click the icon on your desktop to launch the USB Printer Controller. 2 ) Highlight the printer you share. Windows Mac 3 ) Click the Auto-Connect for printing tab to pull down a list, then select Set AutoConnect Printer.
Chapter 6 USB Application Windows Mac 4 ) Select the printer you share, then click Apply.
Chapter 6 USB Application Mac 5 ) You will see the printer marked as Auto-Connect Printer. Now you can print with this printer. Windows Mac Tips: The Print Server also allows different clients to share the scan feature of MFPs (Multi-Function Printers). To scan with TP-LINK USB Printer Controller, right-click the printer and select Network Scanner. Then, a scanning window will pop up. Finish the scanning process by following the on-screen instructions.
Chapter 7 Parental Controls This function allows you to block inappropriate, explicit and malicious websites, and controls access to specified websites at specified time.
Chapter 7 I want to: Parental Controls Control what types of websites my children or other home network users can visit and even the times of day they are allowed to access the Internet. For example, I want to allow my children’s devices (e.g. a computer or a tablet) to access only www.tp-link.com and Wikipedia.org from 18:00 (6PM) to 22:00 (10PM) at the weekend and not other times. How can I do that? 1. Visit http://tplinkwifi.net, and log in with the username and password you set for the router. 2.
Chapter 7 Parental Controls 5. Click the icon to set the Internet Access Time. Drag the cursor over the appropriate cell(s) and click OK. 6. Enter a Description for the entry. Keep the Enable This Entry checkbox available. Click OK. 7. Select the restriction policy. 1 ) In Blacklist mode, the controlled devices cannot access any websites containing the specified keywords during the Internet Access Time period.
Chapter 7 Parental Controls 8. Click Add a new keyword to Block. You can add up to 32 keywords for either Blacklist or Whitelist. Below are some sample entries to allow access. 1 ) Enter a web address (e.g. wikipedia.org) or a web address keyword (e.g. wikipedia) to only allow or block access to the websites containing that keyword. 2 ) Specify the domain suffix (eg. .edu or .org) to allow access only to the websites with that suffix.
Chapter 8 Bandwidth Control The Bandwidth Control feature is used to fully utilize your limit bandwidth and optimize the load respectively. With this feature enabled, you can assign a specific minimum or maximum bandwidth for each computer, thus minimizing the impact caused when the connection is under heavy load.
Chapter 8 I want to: Bandwidth Control Use an independent bandwidth and enjoy a good Internet experience without being affected by other users who are sharing the same router. For example, my roommate and I share 512Kbps Upstream Bandwidth and 8Mbps Downstream Bandwidth via this router, she likes to watch live show and play online games, which may take up much bandwidth. I don’t want to be affected, so we agree to equally distribute the bandwidth. Our IP addresses are 192.168.0.101 and 192.168.0.110.
Chapter 8 Bandwidth Control 1 ) IP Range: Enter the IP address. The field can be single IP address or IP address range according to your demands. When you configure the single IP address, the computer with this IP address will get independent given bandwidth. When you configure the IP address range, all computers in the range will share the given bandwidth. 2 ) Port Range: Keep the default settings. The default port range of TCP protocol or UDP protocol is from 1 to 65535.
Chapter 8 Done! Bandwidth Control Now you and your roommate have an independent bandwidth.
Chapter 9 Network Security This chapter guides you on how to protect your home network from cyber attacks and unauthorized users by implementing these three network security functions. You can protect your home network against DoS (Denial of Service) attacks from flooding your network with server requests using DoS Protection, block or allow specific client devices to access your network using Access Control, or you can prevent ARP spoofing and ARP attacks using IP & MAC Binding function.
Chapter 9 9. 1. Network Security Protect the Network from Cyber Attacks The SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) Firewall and DoS (Denial of Service) Protection protect the router from cyber attacks. The SPI Firewall can prevent cyber attacks and validate the traffic that is passing through the router based on the protocol. This function is enabled by default, and it’s recommended to keep the default setting.
Chapter 9 • Network Security TCP-SYN-FLOOD Attack Filtering - Enable to prevent the Transmission Control Protocol-Synchronize (TCP-SYN) flood attack. Tips: The level of protection is based on the traffic packets number. The protection will be triggered immediately when the number of packets exceeds the preset threshold value (the value can be set on Advanced > System Tools > System Parameters > DoS Protection Level Settings), and the vicious host will be displayed in the Blocked DoS Host List. 5.
Chapter 9 Network Security 3. Enable Access Control. 4. Select the access mode to either block (recommended) or allow the device(s) in the list. To block specific device(s) 1 ) Select Blacklist. 2 ) Select the device(s) to be blocked in the Devices Online table. 3 ) Click Block above the Devices Online table. The selected devices will be added to Devices in Blacklist automatically. To allow specific device(s) 1 ) Select Whitelist and click Save. 2 ) Click Add.
Chapter 9 Network Security 3 ) Enter the Device Name and MAC Address (You can copy and paste the information from the following list if the device is connected to your network). 4 ) Click OK. Done! 9. 3. Now you can block or allow specific client devices to access your network (via wired or wireless) using the Blacklist or Whitelist. IP & MAC Binding IP & MAC Binding, namely, ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) Binding, is used to bind network device’s IP address to its MAC address.
Chapter 9 Network Security 4. Bind your device(s) according to your need. To bind the connected device(s) 1 ) Select the device(s) to be bound in the ARP List. 2 ) Click Bind to add to the Binding List. To bind the unconnected device 1 ) Click Add. 2 ) Enter the MAC address and IP address that you want to bind. 3 ) Select the checkbox to enable the entry and click OK. Done! Now you don’t need to worry about ARP spoofing and ARP attacks.
Chapter 10 NAT Forwarding Router’s NAT (Network Address Translation) feature makes the devices in the LAN use the same public IP address to communicate in the Internet, which protect the local network by hiding IP addresses of the devices. However, it also brings about the problem that external host cannot initiatively communicate with the specified device in the local network.
Chapter 10 NAT Forwarding 10. 1. Share Local Resources in the Internet by Virtual Server When you build up a server in the local network and want to share it on the Internet, Virtual Server can realize the service and provide it to the Internet users. At the same time virtual server can keep the local network safe as other services are still invisible from the Internet. Virtual server can be used for setting up public services in your local network, such as HTTP, FTP, DNS, POP3/SMTP and Telnet.
Chapter 10 NAT Forwarding Tips: 1. It is recommended to keep the default settings of Internal Port and Protocol if you are not clear about which port and protocol to use. 2. If the service you want to use is not in the Service Type, you can enter the corresponding parameters manually. You should verify the port number that the service need. 3. You can add multiple virtual server rules if you want to provide several services in a router. Please note that the External Port should not be overlapped.
Chapter 10 NAT Forwarding 2. Go to Advanced > NAT Forwarding > Port Triggering and click Add. 3. Click View Existing Applications, and select the desired application. The external port, internal port and protocol will be automatically filled with contents. The following picture takes application MSN Gaming Zone as an example. 4. Click OK to save the settings. Tips: 1. You can add multiple port triggering rules according to your network need. 2.
Chapter 10 NAT Forwarding For example, due to some port restriction, when playing the online games, you can login normally but cannot join a team with other players. To solve this problem, set your PC as a DMZ with all ports opened. How can I do that? 1. Assign a static IP address to your PC, for example 192.168.0.100. 2. Visit http://tplinkwifi.net, and log in with the username and password you set for the router. 3. Go to Advanced > NAT Forwarding > DMZ and select the checkbox to enable DMZ. 4.
Chapter 10 NAT Forwarding LAN Xbox WAN Router If necessary, you can follow the steps to change the status of UPnP. 1. Visit http://tplinkwifi.net, and log in with the username and password you set for the router; 2. Go to Advanced > NAT Forwarding > UPnP and toggle on or off according to your needs.
Chapter 11 VPN Server The VPN (Virtual Private Networking) Server allows you to access your home network in a secured way through Internet when you are out of home. The router offers two ways to setup VPN connection: OpenVPN and PPTP (Point to Point Tunneling Protocol) VPN. OpenVPN is somewhat complex but with greater security and more stable. It is suitable for restricted environment, such as campus network and company intranet.
Chapter 111 VPN Server 11. 1. Use OpenVPN to Access Your Home Network In the OpenVPN connection, the home network can act as a server, and the remote client can access the server through the router which acts as an OpenVPN Server gateway. To use the VPN feature, you should enable OpenVPN Server on your router, and install and run VPN client software on the remote client. Please follow the steps below to set up an OpenVPN connection. Step1. Set up OpenVPN Server on Your Router 1. Visit http://tplinkwifi.
Chapter 111 VPN Server 6. Select your Client Access type., select Home Network Only if you only want the remote client to access your home network, select Internet and Home Network if the remote client also want to access Internet through VPN Server. 7. Click Save. 8. Click Generate to generate a new certificate. Note: If you have already generated one, please skip this step, or click Generate to update the certificate. 9. Click Export to save the OpenVPN configuration file.
Chapter 111 VPN Server Note: Before you enable VPN Server, we recommend you configure Dynamic DNS Service (recommended) or assign a static IP address for router’s WAN port and synchronize your System Time with Internet. If you have configured NAT Settings, please make sure your external port of NAT settings is not 1723. 3. In the Client IP Address filed, enter the range of IP addresses (up to 10 clients) that can be leased to the client by the PPTP VPN server. 4.
Chapter 111 VPN Server 3. Select Connect to a workplace and click Next. 4. Select Use my Internet connection (VPN).
Chapter 111 VPN Server 5. Enter the WAN IP address of the router (for example: 218.18.1.73) in the Internet address field. Click Next. 6. Enter the User name and Password, it’s the username and password you have set on your router, and click Connect.
Chapter 111 VPN Server 7. The PPTP VPN connection is created and ready to use.
Chapter 12 Customize Your Network Settings This chapter guides you on how to configure advanced networking features that are available for this router.
Chapter 12 Customize Your Network Settings 12. 1. Change the LAN Settings The router is preset with a default LAN IP 192.168.0.1, which you can use to log in to its web-based management page. The LAN IP address together with the Subnet Mask also defines the subnet that the connected devices are on. If the IP address conflicts with another device on your local network or your network requires a specific IP subnet, you can change it. 1. Visit http://tplinkwifi.
Chapter 12 Customize Your Network Settings For example, I already bought IPTV service, but this service can only be delivered through the Internet. Therefore, I need to configure my router first. How can I do that? 1. Visit http://tplinkwifi.net, and log in with the username and password you set for the router. 2. Go to Advanced > Network > IPTV to open the configuration page. 3. Configure IPTV settings: 1 ) Select the Enable IPTV check box. 2 ) Select the appropriate Mode according to your ISP.
Chapter 12 Customize Your Network Settings 12. 3. Specify DHCP Server Settings By default, the DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) Server is enabled and the router acts as a DHCP server; it dynamically assigns TCP/IP parameters to client devices from the IP Address Pool. You can change the settings of DHCP Server if necessary, and you can reserve LAN IP address for specified client device. 1. Visit http://tplinkwifi.net, and log in with the username and password you set for the router. 2.
Chapter 12 Customize Your Network Settings 3. Enter other parameters if the ISP offers, the Default Gateway is automatically filled, which is the same as the LAN IP address of the router. 4. Click Save to make the settings effective. ¾¾ To reserve an IP address for a specified client device 1. Click the Add button. 2. Enter the MAC address of the device for which you want to reserve IP address. 3. Specify the IP address which will be reserved by the router. 4.
Chapter 12 Customize Your Network Settings 2. Go to Advanced > Network > Dynamic DNS. 3. Select the DDNS Service Provider (Dyndns or NO-IP). If you don’t have a DDNS account, select a service provider and click Go to register. 4. Enter the username, password and domain name of the account. 5. Click Login and click Save. Tips: If you want to use a new DDNS account, please Logout first, then log in with the new account. 12. 5.
Chapter 12 Customize Your Network Settings Router 1 PC 1 Router 2 WAN: 172.30.30.100 LAN: 192.168.0.1 LAN: 192.168.0.2 172.30.30.1 Router 3 PC 2 192.168.0.100 How can I do that? 1. Change the router’s LAN IP addresses to two different IP addresses on the same subnet. Disable Router 2’s DHCP function. 2. Visit http://tplinkwifi.net, and log in with the username and password you set for the router. 3. Go to Network > Advanced Routing. 4. Click Add to add a new static routing entry. 5.
