Chapter

10

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 assign network authorities and

bandwidth for guests to ensure network security, privacy, and fluency.

•

Create a Network for Guests

•

Customize Guest Network Options

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10° 1°

Create a Network for Guests

1°

Visit

http://tplinkmodem.net

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

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

Wireless 2.4GHz

or

Wireless 5GHz

.

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.

10° 2°

Customize Guest Network Options

1°

Visit

http://tplinkmodem.net

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

router

.

2°

Go to

Advanced

>

Guest Network

.

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3°

Assign network authorities and bandwidth according to your needs.

•

Allow guests to see each other

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

•

Allow guests to access my local network

Select this checkbox to allow the clients in your guest network to access your local

network, not just Internet access.

•

Allow guests to access my USB storage sharing

Select this checkbox to allow the clients in your guest network to access your

router’s USB storage sharing.

•

Enable guest network bandwidth control

Select this checkbox to assign the upstream and downstream bandwidth of the

guest network. This option is available only when Bandwidth Control is enabled on

the

Advanced

>

Bandwidth Control

page.

4°

Click

Save

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

and bandwidth you assigned!

Tips:

To view guest network information, go to

Advanced

>

Status

and find the

Guest Network

section.

Chapter

11

NAT Forwarding

Modem 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 modem 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 modem 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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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 modem

router with the WAN IP address 218.18.232.154.

Modem 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 modem router.

3°

Go to

Advanced

>

NAT Forwarding

>

Virtual Servers

, click

Add

.

I want to:

How can I

do that?