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Chapter 4 °

Set Up Internet Connection

4 )

6to4 Tunnel:

An IPv4 Internet connection type is a prerequisite for this connection type. (Go to

Manually Configure

Your Internet Connection Settings

for more information.) Click

Save

.

5.

Configure the IPv6 LAN settings. Leave the settings as default, and click

Save

.

6.

Click

Status

to check whether you succeed or not. The following figure is an example of a successful PPPoE configuration.

Tips:

Visit

Appendix B: FAQ

if there is no Internet connection.

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Chapter 5 °

Guest Network

Guest Network

This function allows you to provide Wi-Fi access for guests without disclosing

your main network. When you have guests in your house, apartment, or

workplace, you can create a guest network for them. In addition, you can

customize guest network options to ensure network security and privacy.

This chapter contains the following sections:

•

Create Guest Network

•

Customize Guest Network Options

5. 1.

Create Guest Network

1.

Visit

http://tplinkwifi.net

, and log in with the username and password you set for the router.

2.

Go to

Advanced

>

Guest Network

.

3.

Create a 2.4GHz or 5GHz guest network according to your needs.

1 )

Click

2.4GHz

,

5GHz-1

, or

5GHz-2

and select

Enable

.

2 )

Set an easy-to-identify SSID. Don‘t select

Hide SSID

unless you want your guests and other people to manually input

this SSID for Wi-Fi access.

3 )

Set

Security

to

WPA/WPA2 Personal

, keep the default

Version

and

Encryption

values, and set an easy-to-remember

password.

4.

Click

Save

. Now your guests can access your guest network using the SSID and password you set!

Tips:

To view guest network information, go to

Advanced

>

Status

and find the

Guest Network

section.

5. 2.

Customize Guest Network Options

1.

Visit

http://tplinkwifi.net

, and log in with the username and password you set for the router

.

2.

Go to

Advanced

>

Guest Network

.

3.

Customize guest network options according to your needs.

5

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•

Allow guests to see each other

Select this checkbox if you want to allow the clients in your guest network to access each other.

•

Allow guests to access my local network

Select this checkbox if you want to allow the clients in your guest network to access your local network, not just Internet

access.

4.

Click

Save

. Now users in your guest network can enjoy only the network authorities you assigned!

Tips:

To view guest network information, go to

Advanced

>

Status

and find the

Guest Network

section.

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Chapter 6 °

NAT Forwarding

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.

With forwarding feature the router can penetrate the isolation of NAT and allows

the external hosts in the Internet to initiatively communicate with the devices in

the local network, thus to realize some special functions.

TP-LINK router includes four forwarding rules. If two or more rules are set, the

priority of implementation from high to low is Virtual Servers, Port Triggering,

UPNP and DMZ.

This chapter contains the following sections:

•

Share Local Resources in the Internet by Virtual Server

•

Open Ports Dynamically by Port Triggering

•

Make Applications Free from Port Restriction by DMZ

•

Make Xbox Online Games Run Smoothly by UPnP

6. 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.

Different service uses different service port. Port 80 is used in HTTP service, port 21 in FTP service, port 25 in SMTP service and

port 110 in POP3 service. Please verify the service port number before the configuration

.

share my personal website I’ve built in local network with my friends through the Internet.

For example,

The personal website has been built in my home PC (192.168.0.100). I hope that my

friends in the Internet can visit my website in some way. The PC is connected to the router with the

WAN IP address 218.18.232.154.

Router

WAN: 218.18.232.154

LAN

Home

Personal Website

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

>

Virtual Servers

, click

Add

.

4. Click

View Existing Application

, and select

HTTP

. The external port, internal port and protocol

will be automatically filled with contents. Enter the PC’s IP address 192.168.0.100 in the

Internal

IP

field.

5. Click

OK

to save the settings.

I want to:

How can I

do that?

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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.

Users in the Internet can enter

http://WAN IP

(in this example: http:// 218.18.232.154) to visit your

personal website.

Tips:

1.

WAN IP should be a public IP address. For the WAN IP is assigned dynamically by ISP, it is recommended to

apply and register a domain name for the WAN refer to

Set Up a Dynamic DNS Service Account

. Then you

can use

http://domain name

to visit the website.

2.

If you have changed the default

External Port

, you should use

http://WAN IP: External Port

or

http://domain

name: External Port

to visit the website.

6. 2.

Open Ports Dynamically by Port Triggering

Port triggering can specify a triggering port and its corresponding external ports. When a host in the local network initiates

a connection to the triggering port, all the external ports will be opened for subsequent connections. The router can record

the IP address of the host. When the data from the Internet return to the external ports, the router can forward them to the

corresponding host. Port triggering is mainly applied to online games, VoIPs and video players. Common applications include

MSN Gaming Zone, Dialpad and Quick Time 4 players, etc.

Follow the steps below to configure the port triggering rules:

1.

Visit

http://tplinkwifi.net

, and log in with the username and password you set for the router.

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.

Done!