User manual TP-LINK TL-WN722NC

[. . . ] 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. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: · · · · Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. [. . . ] Click the Save button. Click the Enable All button to make all entries enabled Click the Disabled All button to make all entries disabled. For example: If you desire that the wireless station A with MAC address 00-0A-EB-B0-00-0B and the wireless station B with MAC address 00-0A-EB-00-07-5F are able to access the Router, but all the other wireless stations cannot access the Router, you can configure the Wireless MAC Address Filtering list by following these steps: 1. Select the radio button "Deny the stations not specified by any enabled entries in the list to access" for Filtering Rules. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Enter the MAC address 00-0A-EB-B0-00-0B/00-0A-EB-00-07-5F in the MAC Address field. Click the Back button. The filtering rules that configured should be similar to the following list: - 44 - TL-WR1043N/TL-WN722NC Wireless N Gigabit Router 4. 6. 4 Wireless Advanced Choose menu "Wireless Wireless Advanced", you can configure the advanced settings of your wireless network. Figure 4-22 Wireless Advanced Transmit Power - Here you can specify the transmit power of Router. Beacon Interval - Enter a value between 20-1000 milliseconds for Beacon Interval here. The beacons are the packets sent by the Router to synchronize a wireless network. RTS Threshold - Here you can specify the RTS (Request to Send) Threshold. If the packet is larger than the specified RTS Threshold size, the Router will send RTS frames to a particular receiving station and negotiate the sending of a data frame. Fragmentation Threshold - This value is the maximum size determining whether packets will be fragmented. Setting the Fragmentation Threshold too low may result in poor network performance because of excessive packets. Note: To use the DHCP server function of the Router, you must configure all computers on the LAN as "Obtain an IP Address automatically". 4. 7. 2 DHCP Clients List Choose menu "DHCP DHCP Clients List", you can view the information about the clients attached to the Router in the screen as shown in Figure 4-26. Figure 4-26 DHCP Clients List Client Name - The name of the DHCP client MAC Address - The MAC address of the DHCP client Assigned IP - The IP address that the Router has allocated to the DHCP client - 48 - TL-WR1043N/TL-WN722NC Wireless N Gigabit Router Lease Time - The time of the DHCP client leased. After the dynamic IP address has expired, a new dynamic IP address will be automatically assigned to the user. To update this page and to show the current attached devices, click the Refresh button. 4. 7. 3 Address Reservation Choose menu "DHCP Address Reservation", you can view and add a reserved address for clients via the next screen (shown in Figure 4-27). When you specify a reserved IP address for a PC on the LAN, that PC will always receive the same IP address each time when it accesses the DHCP server. Reserved IP addresses should be assigned to the servers that require permanent IP settings. Figure 4-27 Address Reservation MAC Address - The MAC address of the PC for which you want to reserve an IP address. Reserved IP Address - The IP address reserved for the PC by the Router. Enter the MAC address (in XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX format. ) and IP address (in dotted-decimal notation) of the computer for which you want to reserve an IP address. Click the Save button. - 49 - TL-WR1043N/TL-WN722NC Figure 4-28 Wireless N Gigabit Router Add or Modify an Address Reservation Entry To modify or delete an existing entry: 1. Click the Save button. Click the Enable/Disabled All button to make all entries enabled/disabled Click the Delete All button to delete all entries. Click the Next button to go to the next page and Click the Previous button to return the previous page. 4. 8 Network Sharing Figure 4-29 The Network Sharing menu There are two submenus under the Network Sharing menu (shown in Figure 4-29), Sharing Service and User Accounts. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. 4. 8. 1 Sharing Service Choose menu "Network SharingSharing Service", you can configure a USB disk drive attached to the Router on this page as shown in Figure 4-30. Figure 4-30 Network Sharing Service Status - Indicates the Network Sharing service's current status. Volume - The volume name of the USB drive the users have access to. - 50 - TL-WR1043N/TL-WN722NC Share Name - The specified share name of the volume. Wireless N Gigabit Router File System - The file system on the partition can be FAT32 or NTFS. [. . . ] Click the Network and Internet Connections icon, and then click on the Network Connections tab in the appearing window. 3) Right click the icon that showed below, select Properties on the prompt page. Figure 0-1 4) In the prompt page that showed below, double click on the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). - 101 - TL-WR1043N/TL-WN722NC Wireless N Gigabit Router Figure 0-2 5) The following TCP/IP Properties window will display and the IP Address tab is open on this window by default. 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: - 102 - TL-WR1043N/TL-WN722NC Wireless N Gigabit Router Figure 0-3 Note: For Windows 98 OS or before, the PC and Router may need to be restarted. Setting IP address manually 1 2 Select Use the following IP address radio button. [. . . ]