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COPYRIGHT & TRADEMARKS S pecifications are subject to change without notice. is a registered trademark of TP-LINK T echnologies Co., Lt d. Other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
FCC STATEMENT This equipment has been tested and found to comp ly 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 har mful interference in a residential installation.
EN 60950-1: 2001 EN 55022: 1998 + A1: 2000 + A2: 2003 EN61000-3-2:2001 EN61000-3-3:2001 EN 55024: 1998 +A1: 2001 + A2: 2003 European standards dictate maximum radiated transmit power of 100mW EIRP and frequency range 2.400-2. 4835GHz; In France, the equipment must be restricted to the 2.
Package contents .............................................................................................................. 1 Chapter 1: About this Guide .............................................................................................
5.8.5 Remote Management .............................................................................. 39 5.8.6 Advanced Security ................................................................................... 40 5.9 S tatic Routing ..............
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Package content s The following contents should be found in your box: One TL-WR641G 108Mbp s Wireless Router One AC power Adapter for TL-WR641G 108Mbp.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Chapter 1: About this Guide Thank you for choosing the TL-WR641G 108Mbps Wireless Router . This router provi des dedicated solution for Small Office/Home Of fice (SOHO) networks.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction 2.1 Overview of the Router The TL-WR641G 108Mbps Wireless Router integr ates 4-port Switch, firewall, NA T -router and Wireless AP . Its design is dedicated to Sm all Of fice/Home Office (SOHO) wireless network solutions.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Built-in NA T and DHCP server supporti ng st atic IP address distributing Supports Virtual Server , Port T riggering, and DMZ host Built-in firewa.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide There are two ways to reset the router's factory defaults: 1) Use the Factory Default s function on System T ools -> Factory Default s page in the router's Web-based Utility . 2) Use the Factory Default Reset button: Fi rst, turn off the router's power .
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Chapter 3: Connecting the Router 3.1 System Requirement s Broadband Internet Access Service (DSL/Cable/Ethernet) One DSL/Cable modem that has an RJ45 .
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide To L A N Switch/Hub 4 3 2 1 WAN To WA N RESE T （） XDSL C abl e Et he r net 、、 Figure 3-1 Hardware Installation of the TL-WR641G 108Mbps Wireless Route.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Chapter 4: Quick Inst allation Guide After connecting the TL-WR641G Router into y our network, you should configure it. This chapter describes how to c onfigure t he basic functions of your TL-WR641G Wireless Router .
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide PC and the router has been established. Figure 4-2 Failed result of Ping command If the result displayed is similar to that shown in figure 4-2, it means that your PC has not connected to the router . Please c heck it following these step s: 1.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Note : If the above screen does not prompt, it means that your web-browser has been set to a proxy . Go to T ools menu>Internet Op tions>Connections>LAN Settings, in the screen that appears, cancel the Us ing Proxy checkbox, and click OK to finish it.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide contact your ISP. If you choose " Dyn a mi c I P ", the router will automatically receive the IP parameters from your ISP without needing to enter any parameters.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide all wireless devices on your network. The default SSID is TP-LINK. This value is case-sensitive. For example, TP-LINK is NOT the same as TP-Link . Region - Select your region from the pull-down list. This field specifies the region where the wireless function of the router can be used.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Chapter 5: Configuring the Router This chapter describes eac h web page's key functions. 5.1 login After your successful login, you can confi gure and manage the router . There are ten main menus on the left of the web- based utility .
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Figure 5-1 Router S tatus 5.3 Quick Setup Please refer to Section 4.2: "Quick Installation Guide." 5.4 Network Figure 5-2 the Network menu There are three submenus under the Network menu (shown in figure 5-2): LAN , WA N and MAC Clone.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide 5.4.1 LAN Y ou can configure the IP p arame ters of LAN on this page. Figure 5-3 LAN MAC Address - the physical address of the router , as seen from the LAN. The value can't be changed. IP Address - Enter the IP address of your router in dotted-decimal notation (factory default: 192.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Figure 5-4 W AN - Dynamic IP This page displays the W AN IP p aramete rs assigned dynamically by your ISP , including IP address, Su bnet Mask, Default Gateway , etc. Click the Rene w button to renew the IP p arameters from your ISP .
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Figure 5-5 WAN - Static IP You should type the following paramet ers into the spaces provided: IP Address - Enter the IP address in dotted-decimal notation provided by your ISP . Subnet Mask - Enter the subnet Mask in dotted-dec imal notation provided by you r ISP , usually is 255.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide User Name/Passw ord - Enter the User Name and Password provided by your ISP . These fields are case-sensitive. Connect on Demand - Y ou can configure the router to disconnect your Internet connection after a specified period of inactivity ( Max Idle Time ).
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Packet MTU - The default MTU size is 1492 bytes, which value is usually fine. For some ISPs, you need modify the MTU.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Click the Save button to save your settings. Note : 1) Only the PC(s) on your LAN can use the MAC Address Clone feature.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide different value. This value is case-sensitive. For example, TP-LINK is NOT the same as TP-Link . Region - Select your region from the pull-down list. This field specifies the region where the wireless function of the rout er can be used.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Hexadecimal format stands for any combination of hexadecimal digits (0-9, a-f, A-F) in the specified length. WEP Key settings - Select which of the four keys will be used and enter the matching WEP key information for your ne twork in the selected key radio button.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Figure 5-1 1: Wireless MAC address Filtering The Wireless MAC Filtering feature allows y ou to control wirel ess stations accessing the router, which depend on the st ation's MAC addresses. MAC Address - The wireless station's MAC addre ss that you want to access.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide To add or modify a MAC Address Filter ing 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).
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide MAC Address field, enter wireless station B in the Description field, select Deny in the Privilege pull-down list and select Enabled in the Status pull-down list. Click the Save and the Return button. 6. Click the Add New .
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide If the numbers of connected wireless st ations go beyond one page, click the Next button to go to the next page and click the Previous button to return the pre vious page. Note : This page will be refreshed autom atically every 5 seconds.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide IP Address. The range of the time is 1 ~ 2880 minutes. The default value i s 120 minutes. Default Gatewa y - (Optional.) Suggest to input the IP address of the LAN port of the router, default value is 192.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Figure 5-17 Address Reservation MAC Address - The MAC address of the PC of which you want to reserve IP address. Assigned IP Address - The IP address of the router reserved. To Reserve IP addresses: 1.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide 5.7 Forwarding Figure 5-18 the Forwarding menu There are four submenus under the Fo rwarding menu (shown in figure 5-18): Vi rt u al Servers , Port T riggering , DMZ and UPnP . Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Enable - The Enable checkbox to enabl e the virtual server entry . Common Service Port – Some common services already list in the pull-down list.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Figure 5-20 Port Triggering Once configured, operation is as follows: 1. A local host makes an outgoing connecti on using a destination port number defined in the T rigger Port field.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide 4. Select the protocol used for Incoming Ports Range from the pull-down list, either TCP , UDP , or All. 5. Select the Enable checkbox to enable. 6. Click the Save button to save the new rule. There are many popular applications in the Popular Application list.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide T o 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. Click the Save button. Note : After you set the DMZ host, the firewa ll related to the host will not work.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide 5.8 Security Figure 5-23 the Security menu There are six submenus under the Secu rity menu (shown in figure 5-23): Firewall , IP Address Filtering, Domain Filtering, MAC Filtering, Remote Management and Advanced Security .
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Enable Domain Filtering - set Domain Filtering is enabled or disabled. Enable MAC Filtering - set MAC Address Filtering is enabled or disabled. You can select the default filtering rules of MAC A ddress Filtering, either Allow or Reny accessing the router.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide 3. WAN IP Address - type a WAN IP Address or a range of WA N IP Addresses in the field, in dotted-decimal notation form at. For example, 61. 145.238.6 – 61.145.238.47. Keep the field open, which means all WAN IP Addresses have been put into the field.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Figure 5-27 Domain Filtering Before adding a Domain Filtering e ntry, you must ensure that Enable Firewall and Enable Domain Filtering have been selected on the Firew all page. To Add a Domain filtering entry, click the Add New… button.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide For example, if you want to block t he PCs on your LAN to access websites www.xxyy.com.cn , www.aabbcc.com and websites with .net in the end on t he Internet while no limit for other websites, you should specify the following Do main filtering list: 5.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide 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: 00-0E-AE-B0-00-0B. 2. Type the description of the PC in the Description field.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Web Management Port - Web browser access normally uses the standard HTTP service port 80. This router’s default remote management web port number is 80 . For greater security, you can change the remote management web interface to a custom port by entering that number in this box provided.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide between 5 and 60 seconds in the pull-down list. The Packets S tatistic interval value indicates the time section of the packe ts statistic. The re su lt of the statistic used for analysis by SYN Flood , UDP Flood and ICMP-Flood .
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Host MAC Address - The MAC address that blocked by DoS are displayed here. To update this page and to show the current blocked host, click on the Refresh button. Click the Clear All button to clear all displayed entri es.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide 1. Click the Clear All button. 2. Click the Save button. Note : Y ou can set up to 8 entries. 5.10 DDNS The router offers a Dynamic Domain Name System ( DDNS ) feature. DDNS lets you assign a fixed host and domain name to a dynamic Internet IP Address.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide 5.10.2 Comexe.cn DDNS If your selected dynamic DNS Service Provider is www .comexe.cn . The page will appear that shown in figure 5-36: Figure 5-36 Comexe.cn DDNS Settings To set up for DDNS, follow these instructions: 1.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Factory Default s, Reboot, Passw ord, Log and St atistics. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding f unction. The detailed ex planations for each submenu are provided below . 5.1 1.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide router . Figure 5-39 Restore Factory Default Click the Restore button to reset all configuration settings to their default values. • The default User Name : admin • The default Passw ord : admin • The default IP Address : 192.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Figure 5-41 Password It is strongly recommended that you change t he factory default us er name and password of the router. All users who try to access the router's web-based utility or Quick Setup will be prompted for the router's user name and password.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Figure 5-43 S tatistics Current Statistics Status - Enable or Disable. The def ault value is disabled. To enable, click the Enable button. If disabled, the f unction of DoS protection in Security settings will be ineffective.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Appendix A: F AQ 1. How do I configure the router to access 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 W AN port on the router .
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide your browser , and then click "MAC Clone" submenu link. On the "MAC Clone" page, if your PC’ s MAC address is pr oper MAC address, click the "Clone M AC Address" button and your PC’s MAC a ddress will fill in the "W AN MAC Address" field.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Figure A-5 DMZ 4. I want to build a WEB Server on the LAN, what should I do? 1) Because the WEB Server port 80 will interfere with the WEB management port 80 on the router , you must change the WEB management port number to avoid interference.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide 5. The wireless stations cannot connect to the router . 1) Make sure the "Wireless Router Radio" is enabled. 2) Make sure that the wireless stations ' SSID accord with the router's SSID. 3) Make sure the wireless stations have right KEY for encryption when the router is encrypted.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Appendix B: Configuring the PCs In this section, we’ll introduce how to inst all and configure the TCP/IP correctly in Windows 95/98. First make sure your Ethernet Adapter is working, refer to the adapter ’s manual if needed.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Figure B-3 Configuration tab 3) Click on Properties . The following TCP/IP Properties window will display and the IP Address tab is open on this window by default. 4) Now you have two ways to configure the TCP/IP protocol below: • Assigned by DHCP Sever a.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Figure B-5 Gateway tab c. Choose Disable DNS on the DNS c onfiguration tab, as shown in the following figure: Figure B-6 DNS Configuration tab • Setting IP address manually a. Select S pecify an IP address on IP Ad dress tab, as shown in the followin g figure.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Figure B-7 IP Address t ab b. T ype the router ’s LAN IP address (t he default IP is 192.168.1.1) into the N ew g at e way field on the Gateway tab, and click on the Add button, as shown in the figure: Figure B-8 Gateway tab c.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide click Add button . Shown below: Figure B-9 DNS Configuration tab Now , all the configurations are finished, it will take effect af ter reboot.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Appendix C: S pecifications General S tandards IEEE 802.3, 802. 3u, 802.1 1b and 802.1 1g Protocols TCP/IP , PPPoE, DHCP , ICMP , NA T Ports One 10/100M Auto-.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Appendix D: Glossary 108M Super G TM WLAN Transmission Technology - 108M Super G TM WLAN Transmission Technology employs multip le performance-enhancing t.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Domain Name - A descriptive name for an address or group of addresses on the Internet. DoS ( D enial o f S ervice) - A hacker attack designed to prevent your computer or network from operating or communicating.
TL-WR641G 108M Wireless Router User Guide Appendix E: Cont act Information For help with the installation or operation of the TP-LINK TL-WR641G 108Mbps Wireless Router, please contact us.
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