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TP-Link TL-R860 User Manual

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TL-R860
Cable/DSL Router
Rev: 1.0.2
1910010010

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  • Page 1 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router Rev: 1.0.2 1910010010...
  • Page 2 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 in any form or by any means or used to make any derivative such as translation, transformation, or adaptation without permission from TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

  • Page 3: Fcc Statement

    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 Rules. 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.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS Package Contents..................1 Chapter 1. Introduction .................2 Overview of the Router ................... 2 Features ......................2 Panel Layout ....................3 1.3.1 The Front Panel..................3 1.3.2 The Rear Panel ..................3 Chapter 2. Connecting the Router..............5 System Requirements ..................5 Installation Environment Requirements............
  • Page 5 Static Routing ....................36 IP & MAC Binding Setting ................37 4.9.1 Binding Setting ................... 38 4.9.2 ARP List....................39 4.10 DDNS ......................40 4.10.1 Dyndns.org DDNS ................40 4.10.2 Oray.net DDNS................... 41 4.10.3 Comexe.cn DDNS ................41 4.11 System Tools....................42 4.11.1 Time....................

  • Page 6: Package Contents

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide Package Contents The following contents should be found in your package: One TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router One AC power Adapter for TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router Quick Installation Guide One Resource CD for TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router, including: • This Guide •...

  • Page 7: Chapter 1. Introduction

    Cable/DSL Router will allow you to connect your network better than ever, sharing Internet Access, files and fun, easily and securely. The TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router provides flexible access control so that parents or network administrators can establish restricted access policies for children or staff. It has built-in NAT and DHCP server supporting static IP address distributing.

  • Page 8: Panel Layout

    1.3 Panel Layout 1.3.1 The Front Panel The front panel of the TL-R860 consists of several LED indicators, which is designed to indicate connections. Viewed from left to right. Table 1-1 describes the LEDs on the front panel of the router.
  • Page 9 Cable/DSL Router User Guide 1-8: Eight LAN 10/100Mbps RJ45 ports for connecting the router to the local PCs POWER: AC power socket: only use the power adapter supplied with the TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router, use of a different adapter may result in product damage.

  • Page 10: Chapter 2. Connecting The Router

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Chapter 2. Connecting the Router 2.1 System Requirements Broadband Internet Access Service (DSL/Cable/Ethernet) One DSL/Cable modem that has an RJ45 connector (It’s not necessary if you connect the router to Ethernet) Each PC on the LAN needs a working Ethernet Adapter and an Ethernet cable with...
  • Page 11 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 2-1 Hardware Installation of the TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router - 6 -...

  • Page 12: Chapter 3. Quick Installation Guide

    3.1 TCP/IP configuration The default IP address of the TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router is 192.168.1.1, and the default Subnet Mask is 255.255.255.0. These values can be seen from the LAN, and can be changed as your desire.

  • Page 13: Quick Installation Guide

    3.2 Quick Installation Guide ® With a Web-based (Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator) utility, the TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router is easy to configure and manage. The Web-based utility can be used on any Windows, Macintosh or UNIX OS with a web browser.
  • Page 14 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide After a moment, a login window will appear similar to that shown in Figure 3-4. Enter admin for the User Name and Password, both in lower case letters. Then click the OK button or press the Enter key.
  • Page 15 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide The router supports three popular ways to connect to Internet. Please select one compatible with your ISP, if you are given another way not listed here, refer to Network→ WAN for detailed list. Click Next to enter the necessary network parameters.
  • Page 16 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 3-9 Quick Setup - Finish After finishing all configurations of basic network parameters, please click Finish button to exit this Quick Setup. - 11 -...

  • Page 17: Chapter 4. Configuring The Router

    TL-R860 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 nine main menus on the left of the web-based utility. Submenus will be available after you click one of the main menus.

  • Page 18: Quick Setup

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-1 Router Status 4.3 Quick Setup Please refer to Section 4.2: "Quick Installation Guide." 4.4 Network Figure 4-2 the Network menu There are three submenus under the Network menu (shown in Figure 4-2): LAN, WAN and MAC Clone.

  • Page 19: Wan

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-3 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 (factory default: 192.168.1.1).
  • Page 20 TL-R860 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 the IP parameters.
  • Page 21 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-5 WAN - 802.1X + Dynamic IP User Name - Enter the user name for 802.1x authentication provided by your ISP Password - Enter the password for 802.1x authentication provided by your ISP. Click the Login button to start 802.1x authentication.
  • Page 22 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-7 WAN - 802.1X + Static IP User Name - Enter the user name for 802.1x authentication provided by your ISP Password - Enter the password for 802.1x authentication provided by your ISP. Click Login to start 802.1x authentication.
  • Page 23 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Time-based Connecting - You can configure the router to make it connect or disconnect based on time. Enter the start time in HH:MM for connecting and end time in HH:M M for disconnecting in the Period of Time fields.

  • Page 24: Mac Clone

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide specified by ISP” check box and enter the IP address , which your ISP provided. Detect 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.

  • Page 25: Dhcp

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide 4.5 DHCP Figure 4-11 the DHCP menu There are three submenus under the DHCP menu (shown in Figure 4-11): DHCP Settings, DHCP Clients List and Address Reservation. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. The detailed explanations for each submenu are provided below.

  • Page 26: Dhcp Clients List

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Default Domain - (Optional.) Input the domain name of your network. Primary DNS - (Optional.) Input the DNS IP address provided by your ISP. Or consult your ISP. Secondary DNS - (Optional.) Input the IP address of another DNS server if your ISP provides two DNS servers.
  • Page 27 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-14 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. Status - The status of this entry either Enabled or Disabled.

  • Page 28: Forwarding

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide 4.6 Forwarding Figure 4-16 the Forwarding menu There are four submenus under the Forwarding menu (shown in Figure 4-16): Virtual Servers, Port Triggering, DMZ and UPnP. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function.

  • Page 29: Port Triggering

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Select the protocol used for this application, either TCP or UDP, or All. Select the Enable checkbox to enable the virtual server. Click the Save button. Figure 4-18 Add or Modify a Virtual Server Entry...
  • Page 30 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-19 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 associated with this entry in the Port Triggering table, and associates them with the local host.

  • Page 31: Dmz

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-20 Add or Modify a Triggering Entry There are many popular applications in the Popular Application list. You can select it, and the application will fill in the Trigger Port, incoming Ports Range boxes and select the Enable checkbox.

  • Page 32: Upnp

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-21 DMZ To assign a computer or server to be a DMZ server: Click the Enable radio button Enter the local host IP Address in the DMZ Host IP Address field Click the Save button.

  • Page 33: Security

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Click Refresh to update the Current UPnP Settings List. 4.7 Security Figure 4-23 the Security menu There are six submenus under the Security menu (shown in Figure 4-23): Firewall, IP Address Filtering, Domain Filtering, MAC Filtering, Remote Management and Advanced Security.

  • Page 34: Ip Address Filtering

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide There are two default filtering rules of IP Address Filtering, either Allow or Reny passing through the router. Enable Domain Filtering - Set Domain Filtering as enabled or disabled. Enable MAC Filtering - Set MAC Address Filtering is enabled or disabled. You can select the default filtering rules of MAC Address Filtering, either Allow or Reny accessing the router.
  • Page 35 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide LAN IP Address - Type a LAN IP address or a range of LAN IP addresses in the field. For example, 192.168.1.20 - 192.168.1.30. Keep the field open, which means all LAN IP addresses have been put into the field.

  • Page 36: Domain Filtering

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide 4.7.3 Domain Filtering The Domain Filtering page (shown in Figure 4-27) allows you to control access to certain websites on the Internet by specifying their domains or key words. Figure 4-27 Domain Filtering Before adding a Domain Filtering entry, you must ensure that Enable Firewall and Enable Domain Filtering have been selected on the Firewall page.

  • Page 37: Mac Filtering

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Click the Enabled All button to enable all entries. Click the Disable All button disable all entries. Click the Delete All button to delete all entries Click the Next button to go to the next page and the Previous button to return to the previous page.

  • Page 38: Remote Management

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-30 Add or Modify a MAC Address Filtering entry To add or modify a MAC Address Filtering entry, follow these instructions: 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).

  • Page 39: Advanced Security

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-31 Remote Management Web Management Port - Web browser access normally uses the standard HTTP service port 80. This router’s default remote management web port number is For greater security, you can change the remote management web interface to a custom port by entering that number in the box provided.
  • Page 40 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-32 Advanced Security settings Packets Statistic interval (5 ~ 60) - The default value is 10. Select a value between 5 and 60 seconds in the pull-down list. The Packets Statistic interval value indicates the time section of the packets statistic. The result of the statistic used for analysis by SYN Flood, UDP Flood and ICMP-Flood.

  • Page 41: Static Routing

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide WAN port. The default is disabled. If enabled, the ping packet from the Internet cannot access the router. Forbid Ping Packet from LAN Port - Enable or Disable forbidding Ping Packet to access the router from the LAN port. The default value is disabled. If enabled, the ping packet from the LAN port cannot access the router.

  • Page 42: Ip & Mac Binding Setting

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide To add static routing entries: Click the Add New button. (pop-up Figure 4-35) Enter the following data: Destination IP Address - The Destination IP Address is the address of the network or host that you want to assign to a static route.

  • Page 43: Binding Setting

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide 4.9.1 Binding Setting This page displays the IP & MAC Binding Setting table, you can operate it in accord with your desire. (shown in Figure 4-37). Figure 4-37 IP & MAC Binding Setting • MAC Address - The MAC address of the controlled computer(s) in the LAN.

  • Page 44: Arp List

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Find the desired entry in the table. Click Modify or Delete as desired on the Modify column. To find an existing entry: Click the Find button (shown in Figure 4-37). Enter the MAC Address or IP Address.

  • Page 45: Ddns

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide • Status - To show the MAC address and IP address binding is enabled or not. • Configure - Load or delete item. • Load - Load the item to the IP & MAC Binding list.

  • Page 46: Oray.net Ddns

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide To set up for DDNS, follow these instructions: Type the domain name your dynamic DNS service provider gave. Type the User Name for your DDNS account. Type the Password for your DDNS account. Click the Login button to login to the DDNS service.

  • Page 47: System Tools

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-43 Comexe.cn DDNS Settings To set up for DDNS, follow these instructions: Type the domain names your dynamic DNS service provider gave. Type the User Name for your DDNS account. Type the Password for your DDNS account.

  • Page 48: Time

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide 4.11.1 Time You can set the time manually or get GMT from the Internet for the router on this page (shown in Figure 4-45): Figure 4-45 Time settings Time Zone - Select your local time zone from this pull down list.

  • Page 49: Factory Defaults

    To upgrade the router's firmware, follow these instructions: Download the latest firmware upgrade file from the TP-LINK website (www.tp-link.com). Run a TFTP Server on a PC on your LAN, and take the file in the TFTP server’s path.

  • Page 50: Backup And Restore

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Click the Restore button to reset all configuration settings to their default values. • The default User Name: admin • The default Password: admin • The default IP Address: 192.168.1.1 • The default Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Note: Any settings you have saved will be lost when the default settings are restored.

  • Page 51: Password

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide • MAC Clone (system will reboot automatically) • DHCP service function. • Static address assignment of DHCP server. • Web Service Port of the router. • Upgrade the firmware of the router (system will reboot automatically).

  • Page 52: Statistics

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-51 System Log The router can keep logs of all traffic. You can query the logs to find what happened to the router. Click the Refresh button to refresh the logs. Click the Clear Log button to clear all the logs.
  • Page 53 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Statistics Table: IP Address The IP address displayed with statistics Packets The total amount of packets received and transmitted by the router. Total Bytes The total amount of bytes received and transmitted by the router.

  • Page 54: Appendix A: Faq

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Appendix A: FAQ How do I configure the router to access Internet by ADSL users? First, configure the ADSL modem configured in RFC1483 bridge model. Connect the Ethernet cable from your ADSL modem to the WAN port on the router.
  • Page 55 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide MAC register, login to the router and click the "Network" menu link on the left of your browser, and then click "MAC Clone" submenu link. On the "MAC Clone" page, if your PC’s MAC address is a proper MAC address, click the "Clone MAC Address"...
  • Page 56 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Note: Your opposite side should call your WAN IP, which is displayed on the “Status” page. 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" page, click “Enable”...
  • Page 57 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure A-8 Virtual Server - 52 -...

  • Page 58: Appendix B: Configuring The Pcs

    TL-R860 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.
  • Page 59 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure B-54 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...
  • Page 60 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure B-55 Setting IP address manually Select Use the following IP address radio button. And the following items available 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.
  • Page 61 TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure B-4 Now: All the configurations are finished; it will take effect after reboot your computer. - 56 -...

  • Page 62: Appendix C: Specifications

    TL-R860 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Appendix C: Specifications General Standards IEEE 802.3, 802.3u Protocols TCP/IP, PPPoE, DHCP, ICMP, NAT, SNTP Ports One 10/100M Auto-Negotiation WAN RJ45 port. Eight 10/100M Auto-Negotiation LAN RJ45 ports supporting Auto MDI/MDIX Cabling Type 10BASE-T: UTP category 3, 4, 5 cable (maximum 100m) EIA/TIA-568 100Ω...

  • Page 63: Appendix D: Glossary

    TL-R860 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 all the PCs that are connected to a DHCP server.

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