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Dynamic IP/ Static IP -

Choose either as you are given by your ISP. Click the

Connect

button

to connect immediately. Click the

Disconnect

button to disconnect immediately.

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Connect on Demand -

You can configure the Router to disconnect from your Internet

connection after a specified period of inactivity (

Max Idle Time

). If your Internet connection

has been terminated due to inactivity,

Connect on Demand

enables the Router to

automatically re-establish your connection as soon as you attempt to access the Internet

again. If you wish to activate

Connect on Demand

, click the radio button. If you want your

Internet connection to remain active at all times, enter 0 in the

Max Idle Time

field. Otherwise,

enter the number of minutes you want to have elapsed before your Internet connection

terminates.

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Connect Automatically -

Connect automatically after the Router is disconnected. To use this

option, click the radio button.

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Connect Manually -

You can configure the Router to make it connect or disconnect manually.

After a specified period of inactivity (

Max Idle Time

), the Router will disconnect from your

Internet connection, and you will not be able to re-establish your connection automatically as

soon as you attempt to access the Internet again. To use this option, click the radio button. If

you want your Internet connection to remain active at all times, enter "0" in the

Max Idle Time

field. Otherwise, enter the number in minutes that you wish to have the Internet connecting

last unless a new link is requested.

Caution

: Sometimes the connection cannot be disconnected although you specify a time to

Max Idle Time

, since some applications is visiting the Internet continually in the background.

6.

If your ISP provides PPTP connection, please select

PPTP/Russia PPTP

option. And you

should enter the following parameters (Figure 4-12):

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Figure 4-11

WAN –PPTP

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User Name/Password -

Enter the User Name and Password provided by your ISP. These

fields are case-sensitive.

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Dynamic IP/ Static IP -

Choose either as you are given by your ISP and enter the ISP’s IP

address or the domain name.

If you choose static IP and enter the domain name, you should also enter the DNS assigned

by your ISP. And click the

Save

button.

Click the

Connect

button to connect immediately. Click the

Disconnect

button to disconnect

immediately.

¾

Connect on Demand -

You can configure the Router to disconnect from your Internet

connection after a specified period of inactivity (

Max Idle Time

). If your Internet connection

has been terminated due to inactivity,

Connect on Demand

enables the Router to

automatically re-establish your connection as soon as you attempt to access the Internet

again. If you wish to activate

Connect on Demand

, click the radio button. If you want your

Internet connection to remain active at all times, enter 0 in the

Max Idle Time

field. Otherwise,

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enter the number of minutes you want to have elapsed before your Internet connection

terminates.

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Connect Automatically -

Connect automatically after the Router is disconnected. To use this

option, click the radio button.

¾

Connect Manually -

You can configure the Router to make it connect or disconnect manually.

After a specified period of inactivity (

Max Idle Time

), the Router will disconnect from your

Internet connection, and you will not be able to re-establish your connection automatically as

soon as you attempt to access the Internet again. To use this option, click the radio button. If

you want your Internet connection to remain active at all times, enter "0" in the

Max Idle Time

field. Otherwise, enter the number in minutes that you wish to have the Internet connecting

last unless a new link is requested.

Caution

: Sometimes the connection cannot be disconnected although you specify a time to

Max Idle Time, since some applications are visiting the Internet continually in the background.

)

Note:

If you don't know how to choose the appropriate connection type, click the

Detect

button to allow

the Router to automatically search your Internet connection for servers and protocols. The

connection type will be reported when an active Internet service is successfully detected by the

Router. This report is for your reference only. To make sure the connection type your ISP provides,

please refer to the ISP. The various types of Internet connections that the Router can detect are

as follows:

z

PPPoE

-

Connections which use PPPoE that requires a user name and password.

z

Dynamic IP

-

Connections which use dynamic IP address assignment.

z

Static IP

-

Connections which use static IP address assignment.

The Router can not detect PPTP/L2TP/BigPond connections with your ISP. If your ISP uses one

of these protocols, then you must configure your connection manually.

4.5.2

LAN

Choose menu “

Network

→

LAN

”, and then you can configure the IP parameters of the LAN on the

screen as below.

Figure 4-12

LAN

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MAC Address

-

The physical address of the Router, as seen from the LAN. The value can't

be changed.

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IP Address -

Enter the IP address of your Router or reset it in dotted-decimal notation

(factory default: 192.168.1.1).

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Subnet Mask -

An address code that determines the size of the network. Normally use

255.255.255.0 as the subnet mask.

)

Note:

1.

If you change the IP Address of LAN, you must use the new IP Address to login the Router.

2.

If the new LAN IP Address you set is not in the same subnet, the IP Address pool of the

DHCP server will change accordingly at the same time

，

while the Virtual Server and DMZ

Host will not take effect until they are re-configured.

4.5.3

MAC Clone

Choose menu “

Network

→

MAC Clone

”, and then you can configure the MAC address of the

WAN on the screen below, Figure 4-13:

Figure 4-13

MAC Address Clone

Some ISPs require that you register the MAC Address of your adapter. Changes are rarely

needed here.

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WAN MAC Address -

This field displays the current MAC address of the WAN port. If your

ISP requires you to register the MAC address, please enter the correct MAC address into

this field in XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX format(X is any hexadecimal digit).

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Your PC's MAC Address -

This field displays the MAC address of the PC that is managing

the Router. If the MAC address is required, you can click the

Clone MAC Address

To

button and this MAC address will fill in the

WAN MAC Address

field.

Click

Restore Factory MAC

to restore the MAC address of WAN port to the factory default

value.

Click the

Save

button to save your settings.

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Note:

Only the PC on your LAN can use the

MAC Address Clone

function.

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4.6

Wireless

Figure 4-14

Wireless menu

There are five submenus under the Wireless menu (shown in

Figure 4-14

):

Wireless Settings

,

Wireless Security, Wireless MAC Filtering, Wireless Advanced

and

Wireless Statistics.

Click

any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function.

4.6.1

Wireless Settings

Choose menu “

Wireless

→

Wireless Setting

”, and then you can configure the basic settings for

the wireless network on this page.

Figure 4-15

Wireless Settings

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Wireless Network Name (also called SSID) -

Enter a value of up to 32 characters. The

same name of SSID (Service Set Identification) must be assigned to all wireless devices in

your network. Considering your wireless network security, the default SSID is set to be

TP-LINK_XXXXXX (XXXXXX indicates the last unique six numbers of each Router’s MAC

address). This value is case-sensitive. For example,

TEST

is NOT the same as

test

.