User manual TP-LINK TL-WDR4900

[. . . ] These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: · · · · Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. [. . . ] Status - Select Enabled or Disabled for this entry on the Status pull-down list. Click the Save button to save this entry. To modify or delete an existing entry: 1. Click the Save button. Click the Enable All button to make all entries enabled Click the Disabled All button to make all entries disabled. Click the Delete All button to delete all entries Click the Next button to go to the next page and click the Previous button to return to the previous page. For example: If you desire that the wireless station A with MAC address 00-0A-EB-00- 07-BE and the wireless station B with MAC address 00-0A-EB- 00-07-5F are able to access the router, but all the other wireless stations cannot access the router, you can configure the Wireless MAC Address Filtering list by following these steps: 1. Select the radio button: Deny the stations not specified by any enabled entries in the list - 32 - TL-WR941N/TL-WDR4900 to access for Filtering Rules. Delete all or disable all entries if there are any entries already. Wireless N Router 4. button and enter the MAC address 00-0A-EB-00-07-BE/00-0A-EB-00-07-5F in the MAC Address field, then enter wireless station A/B in the Description field, while select Enabled in the Status pull-down list. The filtering rules that configured should be similar to the following list: 4. 6. 4 Wireless Advanced Choose menu "WirelessWireless Advanced", you can configure the advanced settings of your wireless network. Figure 4-16 Wireless Advanced Beacon Interval - Enter a value between 20-1000 milliseconds for Beacon Interval here. The beacons are the packets sent by the router to synchronize a wireless network. RTS Threshold - Here you can specify the RTS (Request to Send) Threshold. To update this page and to show the current attached devices, click the Refresh button. 4. 7. 3 Address Reservation Choose menu "DHCPAddress Reservation", you can view and add a reserved addresses for clients via the next screen (shown in Figure 4-21). When you specify a reserved IP address for a PC on the LAN, that PC will always receive the same IP address each time when it accesses the DHCP server. Reserved IP addresses should be assigned to the servers that require permanent IP settings. Figure 4-21 Address Reservation MAC Address - The MAC address of the PC of which you want to reserve IP address. (Pop-up Figure 4-22) Enter the MAC address (in XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX format. ) and IP address in dotted-decimal notation of the computer you wish to add. Click the Save button when finished. Figure 4-22 Add or Modify an Address Reservation Entry To modify or delete an existing entry: 1. If you want to delete the entry, click the - 37 - TL-WR941N/TL-WDR4900 Delete. Click the Save button. Wireless N Router Click the Enable/ Disabled All button to make all entries enabled/disabled Click the Delete All button to delete all entries Click the Next button to go to the next page and Click the Previous button to return the previous page. 4. 8 Forwarding Figure 4-23 The Forwarding menu There are four submenus under the Forwarding menu (shown in Figure 4-23): Virtual Servers, Port Triggering, DMZ and UPnP. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. 4. 8. 1 Virtual Servers Choose menu "ForwardingVirtual Servers", you can view and add virtual servers in the next screen (shown in Figure 4-24). Virtual servers can be used for setting up public services on your LAN, such as DNS, Email and FTP. A virtual server is defined as a service port, and all requests from the Internet to this service port will be redirected to the computer specified by the server IP. Any PC that was used for a virtual server must have a static or reserved IP Address because its IP Address may change when using the DHCP function. Figure 4-24 Virtual Servers Service Port - The numbers of External Ports. You can type a service port or a range of service ports (in XXX ­ YYY format, XXX is the start port number, YYY is the end port number). - 38 - TL-WR941N/TL-WDR4900 Wireless N Router IP Address - The IP Address of the PC providing the service application. [. . . ] First make sure your Ethernet Adapter is working, refer to the adapter's manual if needed. Install TCP/IP component 1) On the Windows taskbar, click the Start button, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. 2) Click the Network and Internet Connections icon, and then click on the Network Connections tab in the appearing window. 3) Right click the icon that showed below, select Properties on the prompt page. Figure B-1 4) In the prompt page that showed below, double click on the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). - 66 - TL-WR941N/TL-WDR4900 Wireless N Router Figure B-2 5) The following TCP/IP Properties window will display and the IP Address tab is open on this window by default. [. . . ]