TP-Link TL-MR3020 Router Manual PDF (Setup & Configuration Guide)

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TL-MR3020

Portable 3G/4G Wireless N Router

The Wireless MAC Address Filtering feature allows you to control wireless stations accessing

the device, which depend on the station's MAC addresses.



Operation Mode -

Shows the current operation mode.



Wireless MAC Filtering -

Click the

Enable

button to enable the Wireless MAC Address

To Add a Wireless MAC Address filtering entry, click the

Add New…

button. The “Add or Modify

Filtering. The default setting is disabled.

Wireless MAC Address Filtering entry" page will appear, shown in Figure 6-16

Figure 6-16 Add or Modify Wireless MAC Address Filtering entry



MAC Address

-

Enter the wireless station's MAC address that you want to control.



Description -

Give a simple description of the wireless station.



Status

-

Select a status for this entry, either

Enabled

or

Disabled

.

To set up an entry, follow these instructions:

First, you must decide whether the unspecified wireless stations can access the device or not. If

you desire that the unspecified wireless stations can access the device, please select the radio

button

Allow the stations not specified by any enabled entries in the list to access

,

otherwise, select the radio button

Deny the stations not specified by any enabled entries in

the list to access

.

To add a MAC Address Filtering entry, follow these instructions:

1.

Enter the appropriate MAC Address into the

MAC Address

field. The format of the MAC

Address

is

XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX

(X

is

any

hexadecimal

digit).

For

example:

00-0A-EB-B0-00-0B.

2.

Enter a simple description of the wireless station in the

Description

field. For example:

Wireless station A.

3.

Select

Enabled

or

Disabled

for this entry on the

Status

pull-down list.

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4.

Click the

Save

button to save this entry.

To add additional entries, repeat steps 1-4.

To modify or delete an existing entry:

modify. If you want to delete the entry, click the

Delete

.

3.

Click the

Save

button.

Click the

Enable All

button to make all entries enabled

Click the

Disable All

button to make all entries disabled.

Click the

Delete All

button to delete all entries

Click the

previous page.

For example:

If you

00- 07-BE is

able to access the device, while all other wireless stations cannot access the device, you should

nabled entries in the

list to access

for

Filtering Rules.

y entries already.

at configured should be similar to the following list:

1.

Click the

Modify

in the entry you want to

2.

Modify the information.

desire that the wireless station A with MAC address 00-0A-EB-

configure the

Wireless MAC Address Filtering

list by following these steps:

1. Click the

Enable

button to enable this function.

2. Select the radio button:

Deny the stations not specified by any e

3.

Delete all or disable all entries if there are an

4. Click the

Add New...

button and enter the MAC address 00-0A-EB-00-07-BE in the

MAC

Address

field, enter Wireless Station A in the

Description

field and select

Enabled

in the

Status

pull-down list. Click the

Save

button.

The filtering rules th



Note:

If you enable the function and select the “

Deny the stations not specified by any enabled

,

s can access the device.

entries in the list to access

” for

Filtering Rules

,

and there are not any enabled entries in the list

thus, no wireless station

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6.6.4

Wireless Advanced

Selecting

Wireless

>

Wireless Advanced

will allow you to do some advanced settings for the

device in the following screen shown in Figure 6-17. As the configuration for each operation

Point mode for example here.

mode is almost the same, we take Access

Figure 6-17 Wireless Advanced



Beacon Interval -

Specifies a value between 20-1000 milliseconds. The beacons are the

wireless network. Beacon Interval value

S (Request to Send) Threshold. If the packet is larger

RTS frames to a particular

e default value is 2346.

packets. 2346 is the default setting and is



DTIM Interval -

Determines the interval of the Delivery Traffic Indication Message (DTIM).

You can specify the value between 1-255 Beacon Intervals. The default value is 1, which

indicates the DTIM Interval is the same as Beacon Interval.

WMM -

WMM function can guarantee the packets with high- priority messages

packets sent by the device to synchronize a

determines the time interval of the beacons. The default value is 100.



RTS Threshold -

Specifies the RT

than the specified RTS Threshold size, the device will send

receiving station and negotiate the sending of a data frame. Th



Fragmentation Threshold -

This value is the maximum size determining whether

packets will be fragmented. Setting the Fragmentation Threshold too low may result in

poor network performance since excessive

recommended.



Enable

being transmitted preferentially. It is strongly recommended enabled.



Enable Short GI -

This function is recommended for it will increase the data capacity by

reducing the guard interval time.

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

Enable AP Isolation -

Isolates all connected wireless stations so that wireless stations

Selecting

Wireless

>

Wireless Statistics

will allow you to see the wireless transmission

information in the following screen shown in Figure 6-18.

cannot access each other through WLAN. This function will be disabled if WDS/Bridge is

enabled.

6.6.5

Wireless Statistics

Figure 6-18 Statistics of the device attached wireless stations



Operation Mode -

Shows the current operation mode. If Multi-SSID is selected, all

A-AUTH /

/

ected wireless stations go beyond one page, click the

guration Protocol. The DHCP Server will automatically

assign dynamic IP addresses to the computers on the network. This protocol simplifies network

connected wireless stations will be shown here



MAC Address -

Shows the connected wireless station's MAC address



Current Status -

The connected wireless station's running status, one of ST

STA-ASSOC / STA-JOINED / WPA / WPA-PSK / WPA2 / WPA2-PSK / AP-UP / AP-DOWN

Disconnected



Received Packets -

packets received by the station



Sent Packets -

packets sent by the station

You cannot change any of the values on this page. To update this page and to show the current

connected wireless stations, click the

Refresh

button.

If the numbers of conn

to the next page and click the



Note:

This page will be refreshed automatically every 5 seconds.

6.7 DHCP

DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Confi

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management and allows new wireless devices to receive IP addresses automatically without

the need to manually assign new IP addresses.

There are three submenus under the DHCP menu (shown as Figure 6-19):

DHCP Settings

,

ss Reservation

.

Clicking any of them will enable you to

DHCP Clients List

and

Addre

configure the corresponding function. The detailed explanations for each submenu are provided

below.

Figure 6-19 The DHCP menu

6.7.1

DHCP Settings

Selecting

DHCP

>

DHCP Settings

will enable you to set up the AP as a DHCP (Dynamic Host

Configuration Protocol) server, which provides the TCP/IP configuration for all the PCs that are

connected to the system on the LAN. The DHCP Server can be configured on the page (shown

as Figure 6-20):

Figure 6-20 DHCP Settings

able/Enable

will disable/enable the

DHCP server on your AP. The default setting is

Disable

. If you disable the Server, you must

er DHCP server within your network or else you must manually configure the

computer.



DHCP Server -

Selecting the radio button before

Dis

have anoth



Start IP Address -

This field specifies the first address in the IP Address pool.

192.168.0.100 is the default start IP address.

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