Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product TL-R402M SafeStream TP-Link
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TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router Rev: 3.0.2 1910010053.
i COPYRIGHT & TRADEMARKS Specifications are subjec t to change without notice. is a registered trademark of TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
ii 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 Rule s. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
iii ¾ Do not use this product near water, fo r example, in a wet basement or near a swimming pool. ¾ Avoid using this product during an electric al storm.
iv Package contents The following contents should be found in your box: ¾ One TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router ¾ One AC power Adapter for TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router ¾ One Quick Installation Guide ¾ One Re.
v CONTENTS Chapter 1. Introduc tion ................................................................................ 1 1.1 Overview of the Router ....................................................................................... 1 1.2 Featur es..
vi 4.6 Forwar ding ........................................................................................................ 23 4.6.1 Virtual Servers .................................................................................................. 23 4.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide -1- Chapter 1. Introduction Thank you for choosing TL - R 402M Ca ble/DSL Router. 1.1 Overview of the Router The TL-R402M Cab l e/DSL Router integrates a 4-p o rt sw i tc h, firewall, and NAT-rou ter. Its design is dedicated to Sma ll Office/Home Office (SOHO) netw ork solution s.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 2 ¾ Supports firmware upgrade ¾ Supports Remote and Web management 1.3 Panel Layout 1.3.1 The Front Panel The Router’s LEDs are located on the fr ont panel (View from left to right).
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 3 1.3.2 The Rear Panel Figure 1-2 Rear Panel sketch The following parts are located on the rear panel (View from left to right). ¾ Power socket: The Power socket is where you will c onnect the power adapter. Please use the power adapter provided with this Router.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 4 Chapter 2. Connecting the Router 2.1 System Requirement s ¾ Broadband Internet Access Service (DSL/Cable/Ethernet) ¾ One DSL/Cable modem that has an RJ45 conne.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 5 5. Power on yo ur PC(s) and Cable/DSL modem. Figure 2-1 Hardware Installation of the TL-R40 2M Cable/DSL Router.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 6 Chapter 3. Quick Installation Guide After connecting the TL-R402M router into your network, you should confi gure it. This chapter describes how to configure t he basic functions of your TL -R402M Cable/DSL Router.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 7 Figure 3-1 Successful result of Ping command If the result displayed is similar to what is shown in Figure 3-1, the connec tion betwe en your PC and the router has been established.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 8 Connect to the router by typing http://192.168.1.1 in the address field of web browser . Figure 3-3 Login to the router After a moment, a login window will appear simi lar to that shown in Figure 4-4. Enter admin for the User Name and Password, both in lower case letters.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 9 Figure 3-5 Quick Setup Click Next , the Choose WAN Connection Type page will appear, shown in Figure 3-6. Figure 3-6 Choose WAN Connection Type The router supports three popular ways to connect to Internet. Please select one compatible with your ISP, click Next to enter the necessary network parameters.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 10 If you Choose " Static IP ", the Static IP settings page will appear, shown in Figure 3-8: Figure 3-8 Quick Setup - Static IP ¾ IP Address - This is the WAN IP address as seen by ex ternal users on the Internet (including your ISP).
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 11 Chapter 4. Configuring the Router This chapter describes each web page's key functions. 4.1 Login After your successful login, you can configur e and manage the router. There are eight main menus on the left of the web-bas ed utility.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 12 Figure 4-1 Router Status 4.3 Quick Setup Please refer to Section 3.2: "Quick Installation Guide." 4.4 Network Figure 4-2 The Network menu There are three submenus under the Network me nu (shown in Figure 4-2): LAN , WAN and MAC Clone.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 13 Figure 4-3 LAN ¾ MAC Address - The physical address of the router, as seen from the LAN. The value can't be changed ¾ IP Address - Enter the IP address of your router in dotted-decimal notation (factory default: 192.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 14 Figure 4-4 WAN - Dynamic IP This page displays the WAN IP parameters assigned dynamically by your ISP, including IP address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, etc. Click the Renew button to renew the IP parameters from your ISP.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 15 Figure 4-5 WAN - Static IP You should type the following paramet ers into the spaces provided: ¾ IP Address - Enter the IP address in dotted-decimal notation provided by your ISP ¾ Subnet Mask - Enter th e subnet Mask in dotted-decimal notation provided by your ISP, usually is 255.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 16 Figure 4-6 WAN - PPPoE ¾ User Name/Password - Enter the User Name and Password provided by your ISP. These fields are case-sensitive ¾ Connect on Demand - You can configure the router to disconnect your Internet connection after a specified peri od of inactivity ( Max Idle Time ).
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 17 Caution : Sometimes the connection cannot be disconnected although you specify a time to Max Idle Time. This is because there ma y still be active applications in the background, which may cause fee accounted by your ISP.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 18 addresses to the router during login, click “ Use the follo wing DNS servers ” checkbox and enter the IP address in dotted-decimal notati on of your ISP’s primary DNS server. If a secondary DNS server address is available, enter it as well.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 19 need modify the MTU. This shoul d not be done unless you are sure it is necessary for your ISP ¾ Max Idle Time - If you want your Internet connection to re main active at all times, enter 0 in the Max Idle Time field.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 20 ¾ WAN MAC Address - This field displays the current MAC address of the WAN port, which is used for the WAN port. If your ISP requires that you register the MAC address, please enter the correct MAC address into this fiel d.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 21 Figure 4-11 DHCP Settings ¾ 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 ¾ Start IP Address - This field specifies the first of the addresses in the IP address pool.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 22 Client attached to the router ( Figure 4-12): Figure 4-12 DHCP Clients List ¾ Index - The index of the DHCP Client ¾ Client Name - The name of the DHCP client.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 23 Figure 4-13 Address Reservation ¾ MAC Address - The MAC address of the PC of whic h you want to reserve IP address ¾ Assigned IP Address - The IP address of the router reserved To Reserve IP addresses: 1. Enter the MAC address (The format for t he MAC address is XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 24 FTP. A virtual server is defined as a service port, an d all requests from Internet to this service port will be redirected to the computer specified by the server IP.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 25 5. Click the Save button. ) Note: It is possible that you have a com puter or server that has more t han one type of available service. If so, select another service, and enter the same IP address for that computer or server .
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 26 Figure 4-16 Port Triggering Once configured, operation is as follows: 1. A local host makes an outgoing connection us ing a destination port number defined in the Trigger Port field.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 27 2. Select the protocol used for Trigger Port from the pull-down list, either TCP , UDP , or All. 3. Enter the range of port number s used by the remote system when it responds to the PC's request. 4. Select the protocol used for Incoming Ports Range from the pull-down list, either TCP , UDP , or All.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 28 using the DHCP function. You can set up DMZ host on this page shown in Figure 4-17: Figure 4-17 DMZ To assign a computer or server to be a DMZ server: 1. Click the Enable radio button 2. Enter the local host IP address in the DMZ Host IP Address field 3.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 29 ¾ Internal Port - Internal port, which the router opened for local host ¾ IP Address - The UPnP device that is cu rrently accessing the router ¾ Status - Eit.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 30 Figure 4-20 Firewall Settings ¾ Enable Firewall - The general firewall switch is on or off ¾ Enable IP Address Filtering - Set IP Address Filtering is enabled or disabled.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 31 Figure 4-21 IP Address Filtering To disable the IP Address Filteri ng feature, keep the default setting, Disabled . To set up an IP Address Filtering entry, click Enable Firewall and Enable IP Address Filtering on the Firewall page, and click the Add New… button.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 32 Keep the field open, which means all WAN Po rts have been put into the field. 5 Protocol - Select which protocol is to be used, either TCP, UDP , or All (all protocols supported by the router). 6 Pass - Select either Allo w or Den y through the router.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 33 4.7.3 Domain Filtering The Domain Filtering page (shown in Figure 4-23) allows you to contro l access to certain websites on the Internet by specifying their domains or key words.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 34 T o Modify or delete an existing entry: 1. Find the desired ent ry in the table. 2. Click Modify or Delete as desired on the Edit column. 3. Click the Enable All button to enable all entries. 4. Click the Disable All button to disable all entries.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 35 Figure 4-25 MAC Address Filtering Before setting up MAC Filtering entries, you must ensure that Enable Firewall and Enable MAC Filtering have been selected on the Fi rewall page. To Add a MAC Addr ess filtering entry, click the Add New… button.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 36 1. Find the desired ent ry in the table. 2. Click Modify or Delete as desired on the Edit column. 3. Click the Enable All button to enable all entries. 4. Click the Disable All button to disable all entries. 5. Click the Delete All button to delete all entries.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 37 ¾ Remote Management IP Address - This is the current address you will use when accessing your router from the Internet.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 38 Figure 4-29 Static Routing To add static routing entries: 1. Enter the following data: ¾ Destination IP Address - The Destination IP Address is the address of .
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 39 ) Note: You can set up to 8 entries. 4.9 System T ools Figure 4-30 System Tools menu There are five submenus under t he System Tools menu (shown in Figure 4-30): Firm w are , Factory Defaults, Reboot, Password and Log.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 40 you write down the router settings before you upgrade its firmware. To upgrade the router's firmwa re, follow these instructions: 1. Downl oad a more recent firmware upg rade file from the TP-LINK website ( www.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 41 Any settings you have saved will be lost when the default settings are restored. 4.9.3 Reboot This page (shown in Figure 4-33) allows you to reboot the router. Figure 4-33 Reboot the router Click the Reboot button to reboot the router.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 42 Figure 4-34 Password It is strongly recommended that you change the fa ctory default user name and passwor d of the router. All users who try to access the router's web-based utility will be pr ompted for the router's user name and password.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 43 Figure 4-35 System Log The router can keep logs of all traffic. You c an query the logs to find what happened to the router.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 44 Appendix A: FAQ 1. How do I configure the router to acc ess Internet by ADSL users? 1) First, configure the ADSL modem configured in RFC1483 bridge model. 2) Connect the Ethernet cable from your ADSL modem to the WAN port on the router.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 45 1) Login to the router, click t he “Network” menu on the left of your browser, and click "WAN" submenu. On the WAN page, sele ct “Dynamic IP” for "WAN Connection Type", finish by clicking “Save”.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 46 Figure 4 Virtual Server ) Note: Your opposite side should call your WAN IP, which is displayed on the “Status” page. 4) How to enab le DMZ Host: Login to the router , click the “Forwarding” menu on the left of your browser, and click "DMZ" submenu.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 47 Figure 6 Remote Management ) Note: If the above configuration takes effect, to configure to the router by typing http://192.168.1.1:88 (the router’s LAN IP address: Web Management Port) in the address field of the web browser.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 48 Appendix B: Configuring the PCs In this section, we’ll introduce how to install and configure the TCP/IP corr ectly in Windows XP. First make sure your Ethernet Adapter is wo rking, refer to the adapter’s manual if needed.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 49 Figure 2 5) The following TCP/IP Properties window will display and the IP Address tab is open on this window by default.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 50 Figure 3 ¾ Setting IP address manually 1 Select Use the following IP address radio button. And the fo llowing items available 2 If the router's LAN IP addre ss is 192.168.1.1, type IP address is 192.168.1.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 51 Figure 4.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 52 Appendix C: Specifications General Standards IEEE802.3 10Base-T IEEE802.3u 100Base-TX WAN 1 10/100M Auto-Negotiation RJ45 port, Auto MDI/MDIX Ports LAN 4 10/100.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 53 Environmental and Physical Operating Temperature 0°C~40°C (32 ℉ ~104 ℉ ) Storage Temperature -40°C~70°C (-40 ℉ ~158 ℉ ) Operating Humidity 10%~90% R.
TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 54 Appendix D: Glossary DDNS ( D ynamic D omain N ame S yst em) - The capability of assigni ng a fixed host and domain name to a dynamic Internet IP address.
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