User manual TP-LINK TL-WN751ND

[. . . ] All rights reserved. FCC STATEMENT This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. [. . . ] Be sure to click the Save button to save your settings on this page. Note: The router will reboot automatically after you click save. 5. 5. 2 MAC Filtering The Wireless MAC Filtering for wireless networks are set on this page, Figure 5-18: Figure 5-18 Wireless MAC address Filtering The Wireless MAC Address Filtering feature allows you to control wireless stations accessing the router, which depend on the station's MAC addresses. MAC Address - The wireless station's MAC address that you want to access. Status - The status of this entry either Enabled or Disabled. Privilege - Select the privileges for this entry. You may select one of the following Allow / Deny / 64-bit / 128-bit / 152-bit. Description - A simple description of the wireless station. WEP Key - Specify a unique WEP key (in Hexadecimal format) to access the router. To set up an entry, follow these instructions: 32 TL-WN751ND 54Mbps Wireless Router User Guide First, you must decide whether the unspecified wireless stations can access the router or not. If you desire that the unspecified wireless stations can access the router, 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 Wireless MAC Address filtering entry, click the Add New. . . The filtering rules that configured should be similar to the following list: Note: a) If you select the radio button Allow the stations not specified by any enabled entries in the list to access for Filtering Rules, the wireless station B will still not be able to access the router, however, other wireless stations that are not in the list will be able to access the router. If you enable the function and select the Deny the stations not specified by any enabled entries in the list to access for Filtering Rules, and there are not any enable entries in the list, thus, no wireless stations can access the router. b) 5. 5. 3 Wireless Statistics This page shows MAC Address, Current Status, Received Packets and Sent Packets for each connected wireless station. 34 TL-WN751ND 54Mbps Wireless Router User Guide Figure 5-20 The router attached wireless stations MAC Address - The connected wireless station's MAC address Current Status - The connected wireless station's running status, one of STA-AUTH / STA-ASSOC / AP-UP / WPA / WPA-PSK /WPA2/WPA2-PSK/None 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 on the Refresh button. If the numbers of connected wireless stations go beyond one page, click the Next button to go to the next page and click the Previous button to return the previous page. Note: This page will be refreshed automatically every 5 seconds. 5. 6 DHCP Figure 5-21 The DHCP menu There are three submenus under the DHCP menu (shown in figureFigure 5-21): DHCP Settings, DHCP Clients List and Address Reservation. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. The detailed explanations for each submenu are provided below. 5. 6. 1 DHCP Settings The router is set up by default as a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server, which provides the TCP/IP configuration for all the PC(s) that are connected to the router on the LAN. The DHCP Server can be configured on the page (shown in Figure 5-22): 35 TL-WN751ND 54Mbps Wireless Router User Guide Figure 5-22 DHCP Settings DHCP Server - Enable or Disable the DHCP server. If you disable the Server, you must have another DHCP server within your network or else you must manually configure the computer. Start IP Address - This field specifies the first of the addresses in the IP address pool. 192. 168. 1. 100 is the default start address. [. . . ] Right click the icon that showed below, select Properties on the prompt page. Figure 1 4) In the prompt page that showed below, double click on the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Figure 2 67 TL-WN751ND 5) this window by default. 54Mbps Wireless Router User Guide The following TCP/IP Properties window will display and the IP Address tab is open on Now you have two ways to configure the TCP/IP protocol below: Setting IP address automatically Select Obtain an IP address automatically, Choose Obtain DNS server automatically, as shown in the Figure below: Figure 3 Setting IP address manually 1 2 3 4 Select Use the following IP address radio button. And the following items available If the router's LAN IP address is 192. 168. 1. 1, type IP address is 192. 168. 1. x (x is from 2 to 254), and Subnet mask is 255. 255. 255. 0. Type the router's LAN IP address (the default IP is 192. 168. 1. 1) into the Default gateway field. Select Use the following DNS server addresses radio button. [. . . ]