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TP-Link Archer C8 User Manual

Ac1750 wireless dual band gigabit router
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  • Page 1 Archer C8 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router...

  • Page 2: Copyright And Trademarks

    TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Other brands and product names are trademarks or TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

  • Page 3: Fcc Rf Radiation Exposure Statement

    FCC STATEMENT FCC STATEMENT This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, 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.

  • Page 4: Ce Mark Warning

    CE Mark Warning This is a class B product. In a domestic environment, this product may cause radio interference, in which case the user may be required to take adequate measures. National Restrictions This device is intended for home and office use in all EU countries (and other countries following the EU directive 1999/5/EC) without any limitation except for the countries mentioned below: Country Restriction...
  • Page 5 General authorization required for network and service Luxembourg None supply (not for spectrum) Russian Federation No info 5250-5350 MHz Country Restriction Reason/remark Planned Bulgaria implemented Croatia License required General authorization required if used outside own Italy premises General authorization required for network and service Luxembourg None supply (not for spectrum)

  • Page 6: Canadian Compliance Statement

    Canadian Compliance Statement This device complies with Industry Canada license-exempt RSS standard(s). Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause interference, and (2)This device must accept any interference, including interference that may cause undesired operation of the device.

  • Page 7: Chapter 1. Introduction

    Before installing the router, please look through this guide to know all the router’s functions. Conventions The router or Archer C8 mentioned in this guide stands for Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router without any explanation.

  • Page 8: Main Features

    Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Main Features Complies with IEEE 802.11ac.  One 10/100/1000M Auto-Negotiation RJ45 Internet port, four 10/100/1000M Auto-Negotiation  RJ45 Ethernet ports, supporting Auto MDI/MDIX. Provides a USB 3.0 port and a USB 2.0 port supporting file sharing and print server.

  • Page 9: Panel Layout

    Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Panel Layout 1.4.1 The Front Panel The router’s LEDs are located on the front panel (View from left to right). Name Status Indication The router has finished booting. Flashing The router is booting or upgrading.
  • Page 10 Archer C8 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Static IP Static IP Figure 3-6 WAN Connection Type Figure 3-6 WAN Connection Type Enter the IP address into this field. Enter the IP address into this field.
  • Page 11 Archer C8 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router L2TP L2TP Figure 3-8 WAN Connection Type Figure 3-8 WAN Connection Type  - Enter the server IP address/name provided by your ISP.  - Enter the server IP address/name provided by your ISP.
  • Page 12 Archer C8 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router PPTP PPTP Figure 3-9 WAN Connection Type Figure 3-9 WAN Connection Type  - Enter the server IP address/name provided by your ISP.  - Enter the server IP address/name provided by your ISP.
  • Page 13 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Displays whether the wireless function is enabled or not. Wireless 2.4GHz/5GHz -   Also called the SSID (Service Set Identification). Enter a value of up Network Name (SSID) -  to 32 characters. The same name must be assigned to all wireless devices in your network.

  • Page 14: Network Map

    Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Chapter 4. Basic Network Map   provides   a router-centered dashboard that lets you see the status of your Network Map Internet connection and network at a glance. You can click any of the six sections of the dashboard to view the d etail information.
  • Page 15 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Figure 4-2 Internet If your ISP provides the DHCP service, please choose type, and the router will Dynamic IP automatically get IP parameters from your ISP. You can see the page as shown below.
  • Page 16 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router If your ISP gives you one or two DNS addresses, select Primary/Secondary DNS -   and enter the primary and secondary addresses into the correct fields. These DNS Servers Otherwise, the DNS servers will be assigned dynamically from your ISP.
  • Page 17 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Figure 4-5 PPPoE  Enter the User Name and Password provided by your ISP. These User Name/Password -  fields are case-sensitive. Click the   button to connect immediately. Click the Connect  button to disconnect immediately.
  • Page 18 Archer C8 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router  The normal  The normal  (Maximum Transmission Unit) value for most Ethernet networks  (Maximum Transmission Unit) value for most Ethernet networks   MTU Size - MTU Size - is 1500 Bytes.
  • Page 19 Archer C8 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router The normal The normal  (Maximum Transmission Unit) value for most Ethernet  (Maximum Transmission Unit) value for most Ethernet networks networks MTU Size - MTU Size -  MTU...
  • Page 20 Archer C8 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router  You can check this radio button to use Static IP as the secondary connection  You can check this radio button to use Static IP as the secondary connection...
  • Page 21 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Figure 5-6 PPPoE Advanced Settings   The default MTU size is “1480” bytes, which is usually fine. It is not MTU Size -  recommended that you change the default  unless required by your ISP.
  • Page 22 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Figure 5-7 WAN - L2TP/Russia L2TP Enter the IP address or domain name of the VPN server VPN Server IP/Domain Name -  provided by your ISP.  Enter the User Name and Password provided by your ISP. These User Name/Password - ...
  • Page 23 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router again. If you wish to activate , check the radio button. If you want your Connect on Demand Internet connection to remain active at all times, enter 0 in the  field. Otherwise,...

  • Page 24: Mac Clone

    Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router again. If you wish to activate , check the radio button. If you want your Connect on Demand Internet connection to remain active at all times, enter “0” in the   field.
  • Page 25 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Figure 5-9 MAC Address Clone Some ISPs require that you register the MAC Address of your adapter. Changes are rarely needed here.   This field displays the current MAC address of the Internet port. If WAN MAC Address - ...

  • Page 26: Dual Band Selection

    Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router   An address code that determines the size of the network. Normally use Subnet Mask -  255.255.255.0 as the subnet mask. Note: 1) If you change the IP Address of LAN, you must use the new IP Address to log in the router.
  • Page 27 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Figure 5-30 Wireless Security  If you do not want to use wireless security, check this radio button. But it’s Disable Security -  strongly recommended to choose one of the following modes to enable security.
  • Page 28 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Figure 5-31 WPA/WPA2 – Personal You can enter ASCII characters between 8 and 63 characters or 8 Wireless Password -  to 64 Hexadecimal characters. The default password is the same with the default PIN code, which is labeled on the bottom of the router or can be found in Figure 5-28.
  • Page 29 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Specify the group key update interval in seconds. The Group Key Update Period -  value should be 30 or above. Enter 0 to disable the update.  It is based on the IEEE 802.11 standard. If you check this radio button, you will find a WEP - ...

  • Page 30: Wireless Advanced

    Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router 5.5.5 Wireless Advanced Choose menu “ ”, you can configure the advanced Advanced Wireless Wireless Advanced settings of your wireless network. Figure 5-36 Wireless Advanced Here you can specify the transmit power of router. You can select High, Transmit Power - ...

  • Page 31: Wireless Statistics

    Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router messages for associated clients, it sends the next DTIM with a DTIM Interval value. You can specify the value between 1-255 Beacon Intervals. The default value is 1, which indicates the DTIM Interval is the same as Beacon Interval.

  • Page 32: Guest Network

    Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Note: This page will be refreshed automatically every 5 seconds. Guest Network Choose menu “ ”, you can configure the Guest Network Wireless Advanced Guest Network Settings on the page as shown in Figure 5-38.
  • Page 33 Archer C8 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Click the Click the  button to make all entries enabled.  button to make all entries enabled. Enable All Enable All Click the Click the  button to make all entries disabled.
  • Page 34 Archer C8 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router 5.10.4 5.10.4 UPnP UPnP Choose menu “ Choose menu “ ”, and then you can view the information about ”, and then you can view the information about...
  • Page 35 Archer C8 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router 5.11 Security 5.11 Security Figure 5-57 The Security menu Figure 5-57 The Security menu There are four submenus under the Security menu: There are four submenus under the Security menu:...

  • Page 36: Advanced Security

    Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router VPN Passthrough must be enabled if you want to allow VPN tunnels using VPN VPN -  protocols to pass through the router.   - Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) allows the PPTP Passthrough ...
  • Page 37 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Figure 5-59 Advanced Security The default value is 10. Select a value between 5 and  Packets Statistics Interval (5~60) - 60 seconds from the drop-down list. The Packets Statistics Interval value indicates the time section of the packets statistics.

  • Page 38: Local Management

    Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router   Enable or Disable the TCP-SYN-FLOOD Enable TCP-SYN-FLOOD Attack Filtering -   Attack Filtering.   The default value is 50. Enter a value TCP-SYN-FLOOD Packets Threshold (5~3600) -  between 5  3600. When the current TCP-SYN-FLOOD Packets numbers is beyond the set value, the router will startup the blocking function immediately.

  • Page 39: Static Routing List

    Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router 5.14.1 Static Routing List Choose menu “ ”, and then you can Advanced Advanced Routing Static Routing List configure the static route in the next screen (shown in Figure 5-80). A static route is a pre-determined path that network information must travel to reach a specific host or network.

  • Page 40: System Routing Table

    Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Click the  button to disable all the entries. Disable All Click the  button to delete all the entries. Delete All Click the  button to view the information in the previous screen, click the  button to...

  • Page 41: Control Settings

    Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Note: Bandwidth Control will become invalid if NAT Boost is enabled. If you want to enable Bandwidth Control, please go to “ ” to disable NAT Boost first. Advanced NAT Boost 5.15.1 Control Settings Choose menu “...

  • Page 42: Ip & Mac Binding

    Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router  This is the information about the rules such as address range. Description -    This field displays the max and mix upload bandwidth through the  Egress bandwidth - Internet port, the default is 0.
  • Page 43 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Figure 5-88 Binding Setting The MAC address of the controlled computer in the LAN. MAC Address -   The assigned IP address of the controlled computer in the LAN.  IP Address -  Check this option to enable ARP binding for a specific device.
  • Page 44 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Click the  button in Figure 5-88. Find Enter the MAC Address or IP Address. Click the  button in Figure 5-90. Find Figure 5-90 Find IP & MAC Binding Entry Click the  button to make all entries enabled.
  • Page 45 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router DHCPv6 Figure 5-98 DHCPv6  - Get a non-temporary IPv6 address from the ISP.  Get non-temporary IPv6 address...
  • Page 46 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router  - Get a temporary IPv6 address and IPv6 prefix from the ISP, the  Get IPv6 prefix delegation temporary IPv6 address is set to the WAN port, and the LAN port advertise IPv6 address by RADVD or DHCPs.
  • Page 47 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Static IPv6 Figure 5-99 Static IPv6  - Enter the IPv6 address in dotted-decimal notation provided by your ISP.  IPv6 Address  - Enter the default gateway in dotted-decimal notation provided by your ISP.
  • Page 48 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Select your local time zone. Enter the  in Month/Day/Year format. Date Enter the  in Hour/Minute/Second format. Time Click Save To set time automatically: Select your local time zone. Enter the address or domain of the...
  • Page 49 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Figure 5-105 Diagnostic Tools - Check the radio button to select one diagnostic too.  Diagnostic Tool  - This diagnostic tool troubleshoots connectivity, reachability, and name resolution Ping  to a given host or gateway.

  • Page 50: Firmware Upgrade

    To upgrade the router's firmware, follow these instructions below: Download a most recent firmware upgrade file from our website (www.tp-link.com). Enter or select the path name where you save the downloaded file on the computer into the blank.
  • Page 51 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router 5) The following  window will display and the tab is open on TCP/IP Properties IP Address this window by default. 6) Select  and , as Obtain an IP address automatically Obtain DNS server automatically...
  • Page 52 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router If the result displayed is similar to Figure B-5, it means the connection between your PC and  the router failed. Figure B-5 Failure result of Ping command Please check the connection following these steps:...

  • Page 53: Appendix C: Specifications

    Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Appendix C: Specifications General IEEE 802.11ac, IEEE 802.11n, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE Standards 802.11a, IEEE 802.11e, IEEE 802.11i, IEEE 802.1X, IEEE 802.3X, IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3ab Protocols TCP/IP, PPPoE, DHCP, ICMP, NAT, SNTP 1 10/100/1000M Auto-Negotiation Internet RJ45 port;...

  • Page 54: Appendix D: Glossary

    Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Appendix D: Glossary - IEEE 802.11ac is a wireless computer networking standard of 802.11.This 802.11ac  specification will enable multi-station WLAN throughput of at least 1 gigabit per second .This is accomplished by extending the air interface concepts embraced by 802.11n: wider RF bandwidth, more MIMO spatial streams, multi-user MIMO, and high-density modulation (up to 256 QAM).
  • Page 55 Archer C8 AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router  The size in bytes of the largest packet that can be Maximum Transmission Unit  transmitted. etwork ddress ranslation)  NAT technology translates IP addresses of a local area  network to a different IP address for the Internet.

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