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  • TP-Link TL-R402M | User Guide - Page 1
    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router Rev: 3.0.2 1910010053
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    COPYRIGHT & TRADEMARKS Specifications are subject 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. No part of the specifications may be reproduced
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    installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment. CE Mark Warning This is a
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    ¾ Do not use this product near water, for example, in a wet basement or near a swimming pool. ¾ Avoid using this product during an electrical storm. There may be a remote risk of electric shock from lightning. iii
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    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 Resource CD for TL-R402Ms Cable/DSL Router, including: • This User Guide • Other Helpful Information ) Note: Make sure that the
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    3. Quick Installation Guide 6 3.1 TCP/IP configuration 6 3.2 Quick Installation Guide 7 Chapter 4. Configuring the Router 11 4.1 Login ...11 4.2 Status...11 4.3 Quick Setup ...12 4.4 Network...12 4.4.1 LAN ...12 4.4.2 WAN...13 4.4.3 MAC Clone...19 4.5 DHCP...20 4.5.1 DHCP Settings 20 4.5.2 DHCP
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    Forwarding...23 4.6.1 Virtual Servers 23 4.6.2 Port Triggering 25 4.6.3 DMZ ...27 4.6.4 UPnP...28 4.7 Security...29 4.7.1 Firewall...29 4.7.2 IP 4.9.1 Firmware ...39 4.9.2 Factory Defaults 40 4.9.3 Reboot ...41 4.9.4 Password ...41 4.9.5 Log ...42 Appendix A: FAQ 44 Appendix B: Configuring the
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Chapter 1. Introduction Thank you for choosing TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router. 1.1 Overview of the Router The TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router integrates a 4-port switch, firewall, and NAT-router. Its design is dedicated to Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) network solutions.
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 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 front panel (View from left to right). Figure 1-1 The LEDs： Name M1 M2 Status Indication Not lit The router works
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    Panel TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 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 connect the power adapter. Please use the power adapter provided with this Router. ¾ Reset button
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Chapter 2. Connecting the Router 2.1 System Requirements ¾ Broadband Internet Access Service (DSL/Cable/Ethernet) ¾ One DSL/Cable modem that has an RJ45 connector (It's not necessary if you connect the router to Ethernet) ¾ Each PC on the LAN needs a working
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 5. Power on your PC(s) and Cable/DSL modem. Figure 2-1 Hardware Installation of the TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router 5
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Chapter 3. Quick Installation Guide After connecting the TL-R402M router into your network, you should configure it. This chapter describes how to configure the basic functions of your TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router. These procedures only take you a few minutes. You
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    192.168.1.1, your PC's IP address must be within the range of 192.168.1.2 ~ 192.168.1.254, the gateway must be 192.168.1.1. 3.2 Quick Installation Guide With a Web-based (Internet Explorer or Netscape® Navigator) utility, the TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router is easy to configure and manage. The Web-based
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 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 similar to that shown in Figure 4-4. Enter admin for the User Name and Password, both in lower case
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 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
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 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 external users on the Internet (including your ISP). Enter the IP address into the
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Chapter 4. Configuring the Router This chapter describes each web page's key functions. 4.1 Login After your successful login, you can configure and manage the router. There are eight main menus on the left of the web-based utility. Submenus will be available
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-1 Router Status 4.3 Quick Setup Please refer to Section 3.2: "Quick Installation Guide." 4.4 able to configure the corresponding function. The detailed explanations for each submenu are provided below. 4.4.1 LAN You can configure the IP parameters of
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 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: 192.168.1.1) ¾ Subnet Mask - An address code that
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 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. Click the Release button to release
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-5 WAN - Static IP You should type the following parameters into the spaces provided: ¾ IP Address - Enter the IP your ISP, usually is 255.255.255.0 ¾ Default Gateway: (Optional) Enter the gateway IP address in dotted-decimal notation provided by your ISP
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 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 period of inactivity (
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Caution: Sometimes the connection cannot be Online Interval - The default value is 0, you can input the value between 0 and 120. The router will detect Access Concentrator online at every interval between seconds. If the value is 0, it means do not detect ¾ DNS IP
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide addresses to the router during login, click "Use the following DNS servers" checkbox and enter the IP address in dotted-decimal notation of your ISP's primary DNS server. If a secondary DNS server address is available, enter it as well. Click the Save button to
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide need modify the MTU. This should not be done unless you are sure it is necessary for your ISP ¾ Max Idle Time - If you want
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 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 field. The format for the MAC address
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 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
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 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 ¾ MAC Address - The MAC address of the DHCP client ¾ Assigned IP - The IP address that the router has
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-13 Address Reservation ¾ MAC Address - The MAC address of the PC of which 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 the MAC address is XX
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide FTP. A virtual server is defined as a service port, and all requests from Internet to this service port will be redirected to the computer specified by the server IP. Any PC that was used for a virtual server must have a static or reserved IP address because its
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 5. Click the Save button. ) Note: It is possible that you have a computer or server that has more than one type of available service. If so, select another service, and enter the same IP address for that computer or server. To modify a virtual server entry: 1.
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-16 Port Triggering Once configured, operation is as follows: 1. A local host makes an outgoing connection using a destination port number defined in the Trigger Port field. 2. The router records this connection, opens the incoming port or ports
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 2. Select the protocol used for Trigger Port from the pull-down list, either TCP, UDP, or All. 3. Enter the range of port numbers 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-
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 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. Click
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide ¾ Internal Port - Internal port, which the router opened for local host ¾ IP Address - The UPnP device that is currently accessing the router ¾ Status - Either Enabled or Disabled, "Enabled" means that port is still active, otherwise, the port is inactive Click
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 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. There are two default filtering rules of IP Address Filtering, either Allow or Deny passing
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-21 IP Address Filtering To disable the IP Address Filtering 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.
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Keep the field open, which means all WAN Ports 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 Allow or Deny through the router. 7 Status -
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 4.7.3 Domain Filtering The Domain Filtering page (shown in 4-24 Add or Modify a Domain Filtering entry To add or modify a Domain Filtering entry, follow these instructions: 1. Domain Name - Type the domain or key word as desired in the field. A blank in the
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide To Modify or delete an existing entry: 1. Find the desired entry on the Firewall page, then, specify the following Domain filtering list: 4.7.4 MAC Filtering Like the IP Address Filtering page, the MAC Address Filtering page (shown in Figure 4-25) allows you to
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-25 MAC Address Filtering Before setting up MAC Filtering a MAC Address Filtering entry To add or modify a MAC Address Filtering entry, follow these instructions: 1. Enter the appropriate MAC address into the MAC Address field. The format of the MAC
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 1. Find the desired entry in the table. 2. Click Modify or 4-27 Remote Management ¾ 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,
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide ¾ Remote Management IP Address - This is the current address you will use when accessing your router from the Internet. The default IP address is 0.0.0.0. It means this function is disabled. To enable this function, change the default IP address to another IP
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 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 the network or host that you want to assign to a static route ¾ Subnet Mask - The Subnet Mask determines
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide ) Note: You can set up to 8 entries. 4.9 System Tools - System Tools y Firmware y Factory Defaults y Reboot Figure 4-30 System Tools menu There are five submenus under the System Tools menu (shown in Figure 4-30): Firmware, Factory Defaults, Reboot, Password and
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide you write down the router settings before you upgrade its firmware. To upgrade the router's firmware, follow these instructions: 1. Download a more recent firmware upgrade file from the TP-LINK website (www.tp-link.com). 2. Run a TFTP Server on a PC on your LAN,
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 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. Some settings of the router
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-34 Password It is strongly recommended that you change the factory default user name and password of the router. All users who try to access the router's web-based utility will be prompted for the router's user name and password. ) Note: ¾ The new user
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-35 System Log The router can keep logs of all traffic. You can query the logs to find what happened to the router. ¾ Click the Refresh button to refresh the logs ¾ Click the Clear Log button to clear all the logs 43
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Appendix A: FAQ 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 WAN port on the router. The telephone cord plugs
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide 1) Login to the router, click the "Network" menu on the left of your browser, and click "WAN" submenu. On the WAN page, select "Dynamic IP" for "WAN Connection Type", finish by clicking "Save". 2) Some ISPs require that you register the MAC address of your
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide ) Note: Figure 4 Virtual Server Your opposite side should call your WAN IP, which is displayed on the "Status" page. 4) How to enable DMZ Host: Login to the router, click the "Forwarding" menu on the left of your browser, and click "DMZ" submenu. On the "DMZ"
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide ) Note: Figure 6 Remote Management 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. 3) Login to the router, click
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Appendix B: Configuring the PCs In this section, we'll introduce how to install and configure the TCP/IP correctly in Windows XP. First make sure your Ethernet Adapter is working, refer to the adapter's manual if needed. 1. Install TCP/IP component 1) On the
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 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: ¾ Setting IP address automatically Select Obtain an IP address automatically,
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 3 ¾ Setting IP address manually 1 Select Use the following IP address radio button. And the following items available 2 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. 3
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4 51
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Appendix C: Specifications Standards Ports WAN LAN Network Media(Cable) Internet Access Security DHCP DDNS Forwarding Rules Management Power Supply LEDs Certifications General IEEE802.3 10Base-T IEEE802.3u 100Base-TX 1 10/100M Auto-Negotiation RJ45
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Operating Temperature Storage Temperature Operating Humidity Storage Humidity Environmental and Physical 0°C~40°C (32℉~104℉ ) -40°C~70°C (-40℉~158℉) 10%~90% RH non-condensing 5%~90% RH non-condensing 53
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    TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide Appendix D: Glossary DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name System) - The capability of assigning a fixed host and domain name to a dynamic Internet IP address. DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) - A protocol that automatically configure the TCP/IP parameters for the
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TL-R402M
Cable/DSL Router
Rev: 3.0.2
1910010053