Tp-link TL-WR941ND User Manual

TL-WR941N TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router Rev: 2.0.0 1910010246

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -3- Wireless N Router without any explanation. ) Note: The two devices of TL-WR941N and TL-WR941ND are shari

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -93- Appendix B: Configuring the PCs In this section, we’ll introduce how to install and configure the TCP/I

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -94- Figure B-2 5) The following TCP/IP Properties window will display and the IP Address tab is open on th

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -95- Figure B-3 ¾ Setting IP address manually 1 Select Use the following IP address radio button. And the

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -96- Figure B-4

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -97- Appendix C: Specifications General Standards IEEE 802.3, 802.3u, 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11n Protocol

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -98- Appendix D: Glossary ¾ 802.11n - 802.11n builds upon previous 802.11 standards by adding MIMO (multipl

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -99- identifying a wireless local area network. For the wireless devices in a network to communicate with ea

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -4- 1.4 Panel Layout 1.4.1 The Front Panel Figure 1-1 Front Panel sketch The Router’s LEDs and the QSS

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -5- 1.4.2 The Rear Panel Figure 1-2 Rear Panel sketch The following parts are located on the rear panel

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -6- Chapter 2. Connecting the Router 2.1 System Requirements ¾ Broadband Internet Access Service (DSL/Cabl

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -7- electrical outlet. The Router will start to work automatically. 7. Power on your PC and Cable/DSL Modem

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -8- Chapter 3. Quick Installation Guide This chapter will show you how to configure the basic functions of y

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -9- Figure 3-1 Success result of Ping command ¾ If the result displayed is similar to the Figure 3-2, i

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -10- 2. Is the TCP/IP configuration for your PC correct? ) Note: If the Router's IP address is 192.168

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -11- Figure 3-5 Quick Setup 3. Click Next, and then WAN Connection Type page will appear, shown in Figur

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -12- ¾ User Name and Password - Enter the User Name and Password provided by your ISP. These fields are cas

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TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -13- Figure 3-9 Quick Setup – Wireless ¾ Wireless Radio - Enable or disable the wireless radio choosing

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -14- recommended strongly that you choose one of following options to enable security. ¾ WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK -

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -15- Chapter 4. Configuring the Router This chapter will show each Web page's key functions and the con

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -16- Figure 4-1 Router Status 4.3 Quick Setup Please refer to Section 3.2: "Quick Installation Gui

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -17- Figure 4-2 QSS ¾ QSS Status - Enable or disable the QSS function here. ¾ Current PIN - The curr

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -18- Step 3: Wait for a while until the next screen appears. Click Finish to complete the QSS configuration

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -19- The QSS Configuration Screen of Wireless Adapter Step 3: Wait for a while until the next screen appears

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -20- The QSS Configuration Screen of Wireless Adapter Step 4: Wait for a while until the next screen appea

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -21- then the following screen will appear. Step 2: Choose Enter the new device's PIN and enter the P

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -22- the Router into the field behind Access Point PIN. Then click Next. The QSS Configuration Screen of Wi

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TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -23- 4.5 Network Figure 4-4 the Network menu There are three submenus under the Network menu (shown in Fi

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -24- 1. If your ISP provides the DHCP service, please choose Dynamic IP type, and the Router will automatic

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -25- 2. If your ISP provides a static or fixed IP Address, Subnet Mask, Gateway and DNS setting, select Sta

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -26- Figure 4-8 WAN - PPPoE ¾ User Name/Password - Enter the User Name and Password provided by your IS

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -27- ¾ Time-based Connecting - The connection will only be established in the period from the start time to

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -28- ¾ Detect Online Interval - The Router will detect Access Concentrator online at every interval. The de

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -29- VIC / TAS / WA / SA / NT - vic.bigpond.net.au QLD - qld.bigpond.net.au ¾ MTU Size - The normal MTU (Ma

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -30- Figure 4-11 L2TP Settings ¾ User Name/Password - Enter the User Name and Password provided by your I

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -31- ¾ Connect Manually - You can configure the Router to make it connect or disconnect manually. After a s

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -32- ¾ Dynamic IP/ Static IP - Choose either as you are given by your ISP and enter the ISP’s IP address or

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TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -33- The Router can not detect PPTP/L2TP/BigPond connections with your ISP. If your ISP uses one of these pr

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -34- any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. 4.6.1 Wireless Settings C

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -35- ¾ Channel - This field determines which operating frequency will be used. The default channel is set t

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -36- Figure 4-16 ¾ Disable Security - If you do not want to use wireless security, select this check box

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -37- • Type - you can choose the type for the WEP security on the pull-down list. The default setting is Au

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -38- • Radius Server IP - Enter the IP address of the Radius Server. • Radius Port - Enter the port that r

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -39- Figure 4-20 Wireless MAC address Filtering To filter wireless users by MAC Address, click Enable. T

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -40- To modify or delete an existing entry: 1. Click the Modify in the entry you want to modify. If you want

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -41- Figure 4-22 Wireless Advanced ¾ Transmit Power - Here you can specify the transmit power of Router. Y

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -42- ¾ Enable Short GI - This function is recommended for it will increase the data capacity by reducing th

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router I CONTENTS Package Contents ...

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -43- 4.7 DHCP Figure 4-24 The DHCP menu There are three submenus under the DHCP menu (shown in Figure 4

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -44- addresses. 192.168.1.199 is the default end address. ¾ Address Lease Time - The Address Lease Time is

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -45- You cannot change any of the values on this page. To update this page and to show the current attached

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -46- To modify or delete an existing entry: 1. Click the Modify in the entry you want to modify. If you want

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -47- Figure 4-30 Virtual Servers ¾ Service Port - The numbers of External Ports. You can type a service

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -48- ) Note: If your computer or server has more than one type of available service, please select another s

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -49- entry in the Port Triggering table, and associates them with the local host. 3. When necessary the e

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -50- Figure 4-33 Add or Modify a Triggering Entry To modify or delete an existing entry: 1. Click the Mo

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -51- Figure 4-34 DMZ To assign a computer or server to be a DMZ server: 1. Click the Enable radio button

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -52- • App Description -The description provided by the application in the UPnP request • External Port -

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router II 4.6.5 Wireless Statistics...

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -53- Figure 4-37 Basic Security ¾ Firewall - A firewall protects your network from the outside world. Her

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -54- ¾ ALG - It is recommended to enable Application Layer Gateway (ALG) because ALG allows customized Netw

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -55- UDP Flood and ICMP-Flood. ¾ DoS Protection - Denial of Service protection. Check the Enable or Disable

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -56- Figure 4-39 Local Management By default, the radio button “All the PCs on the LAN are allowed to acces

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -57- function in the screen as shown in Figure 4-40. This feature allows you to manage your Router from a re

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -58- Figure 4-41 Parental Control Settings ¾ Parental Control - Check Enable if you want this function t

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -59- 6. In the Status field, you can select Enabled or Disabled to enable or disable your entry. 7. Click t

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -60- 3. Click “Parental Control” menu on the left to go back to the Add or Modify Parental Control Entry pag

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -61- Figure 4-45 Access Control Rule Management ¾ Enable Internet Access Control - Select the check box

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -62- 6. In the Action field, select Deny or Allow. 7. In the Status field, select Enabled or Disabled to ena

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router III 4.15.3 No-ip.com DDNS ...

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -63- 4. Click “Access Control → Rule” in the left to return to the Access Control Rule Management page. Sele

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -64- 2) In LAN IP Address field, enter the IP address. z If you select MAC Address, the screen shown is Fig

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -65- 4.11.3 Target Choose menu “Access Control → Target”, you can view and set a Target list in the screen

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -66- Click the Next button to go to the next page, or click the Previous button return to the previous page.

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -67- 4.11.4 Schedule Choose menu “Access Control → Schedule”, you can view and set a Schedule list in the

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -68- Figure 4-54 Advanced Schedule Settings For example: If you desire to restrict the internet activiti

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -69- Figure 4-55 Static Routing To add static routing entries: 1. Click Add New… shown in Figure 4-55, you

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -70- Click the Disable All button to disable all the entries. Click the Delete All button to delete all the

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -71- Figure 4-59 Bandwidth Control Rules List ¾ Description - This is the information about the rules such

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -72- 4.14 IP & MAC Binding Setting Figure 4-61 the IP & MAC Binding menu There are two submenus und

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -1- Package Contents The following items should be found in your package: ¾ TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -73- Figure 4-63 IP & MAC Binding Setting (Add & Modify) To add IP & MAC Binding entries, fo

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -74- the ARP list also. This page displays the ARP List; it shows all the existing IP & MAC Binding entr

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -75- 4.15.1 Comexe.cn DDNS If the dynamic DNS Service Provider you select is www.comexe.cn, the page will ap

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -76- Figure 4-67 Dyndns.org DDNS Settings To set up for DDNS, follow these instructions: 1. Type the Use

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -77- Figure 4-68 No-ip.com DDNS Settings To set up for DDNS, follow these instructions: 1. Type the User Na

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -78- Password, System Log and Statistics. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the correspon

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -79- 3. The router will obtain GMT automatically from Internet if it has already connected to Internet. 4.1

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -80- ¾ Ping Timeout - Set the waiting time for the reply of each Ping packet. If there is no reply in the s

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -81- 2. Type the path and file name of the update file into the File field. Or click the Browse button to l

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -82- Figure 4-75 Backup & Restore Configuration ¾ Click the Backup button to save all configuration

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -2- Chapter 1. Introduction Thank you for choosing the TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router. 1.1 Overview

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -83- 4.16.7 Password Choose menu “System Tools → Password”, you can change the factory default user name an

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -84- Figure 4-78 System Log ¾ Auto Mail Feature - Indicates whether auto mail feature is enabled or not.

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -85- Figure 4-79 Mail Account Settings z From - Your mail box address. The Router would connect it to sen

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -86- ¾ Save Log - Click to save all the logs in a txt file. ¾ Mail Log - Click to send an email of curre

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -87- PacketsThe total amount of packets received and transmitted in the last Packets Statistic interval seco

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -88- Appendix A: FAQ 1. How do I configure the Router to access Internet by ADSL users? 1) First, configur

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -89- 1) Login to the Router, click the “Network” menu on the left of your browser, and click "WAN"

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -90- Figure A-5 Add or Modify a Virtual server Entry ) Note: Your opposite side should call your WAN IP

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -91- Figure A-7 Basic Security 4. I want to build a WEB Server on the LAN, what should I do? 1) Because

TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router -92- field of the Web browser. 3) Log in to the Router, click the “Forwarding” menu on the left of your bro