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9° 1°

Create a Network for Guests

1°

Visit

http://tplinkmodem.net

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

2°

Go to

Advanced

>

Guest Network

. Locate the

Wireless Settings

section.

3°

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

1 )

Enable

2.4GHz

,

5GHz

or both wireless networks.

Note:

Guest network and WDS cannot be enabled at the same time. If WDS was enabled, disable it at

Advanced

>

Wireless

>

Advanced Settings

.

2 ) Customize the SSID. Don‘t select

Hide SSID

unless you want your guests

to

manually input the SSID for guest network access.

3 )

Set

Security

to

WPA/WPA2 Personal

, keep the default

Version

and

Encryption

values, and customize your own 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 locate the

Guest Network

section.

9° 2°

Customize Guest Network Options

1°

Visit

http://tplinkmodem.net

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

.

2°

Go to

Advanced

>

Guest Network

. Locate the

Settings

section.

3°

Customize guest network options according to your needs.

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•

Allow guests to see each other

Select this checkbox if you want to allow the wireless clients on your guest network

to communicate with each other via methods such as network neighbors, Samba,

Ping, and FTP.

•

Allow guests to access my local network

Select this checkbox if you want to allow the wireless clients on your guest network

to communicate with the devices connected to your router’s LAN ports or main

network via methods such as network neighbors, Samba, Ping, and FTP.

•

Enable guest network bandwidth control

Select this checkbox if you want to assign the upstream and downstream

bandwidths for the guest network. This option is available only when

Bandwidth

Control

is enabled on the

Advanced

>

Bandwidth Control

page.

4°

Click

Save

. Now you can ensure network security, privacy, and fluency!

Tips:

To view guest network information, go to

Advanced

>

Status

and find the

Guest Network

section.

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 protects 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

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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. 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 (192.168.1.100). 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.

4G LTE Router

WAN: 218.18.232.154

LAN

Home

Personal Website

1°

Assign a static IP address to your PC, for example

192.168.1.100.

2°

Visit

http://tplinkmodem.net

, and log in with the password

you set for the router.

3°

Go to

Advanced

>

NAT Forwarding

>

Virtual Servers

, click

Add

.

I want to:

How can I

do that?

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4°

Click

View Existing Services

, and choose

HTTP

. The external

port, internal port and protocol will be auto-populated. Enter

the PC’s IP address 192.168.1.100 in the

Internal

IP

field.

5°

Click

OK

to save the settings.

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 needs.

3. You can add multiple virtual server rules if you want to provide several services in

a router. Please note that the

External

Port

cannot 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 by DDNS,

go to

Set Up a Dynamic DNS Service Account

for more information. 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.

10° 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

Done!