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TP-Link TL-R4000+ User Manual

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TL-R4000+
Load Balance Broadband Router
Rev: 1.0.1
1910010032

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  • Page 1 TL-R4000+ Load Balance Broadband Router Rev: 1.0.1 1910010032...
  • Page 2 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 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 A digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment.

  • Page 4: Package Contents

    Package Contents The following contents should be found in your package: One TL-R4000+ Load Balance Broadband Router One power cord for TL-R4000+ Load Balance Broadband Router One Resource CD for TL-R4000+ Load Balance Broadband Router, including: • This Guide •...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Installation Environment Requirements ... 9 Connecting the Router ... 9 Chapter 3. Quick Installation Guide... 10 TCP/IP configuration ... 10 Quick Installation Guide ...11 Chapter 4. Configuring the Router ... 15 login... 15 Status ... 15 Quick Setup... 16 Network ... 17 4.4.1...
  • Page 6 4.7.6 Advanced Security... 42 Static Routing ... 43 DDNS ... 44 4.10 System Tools ... 45 4.10.1 Time... 45 4.10.2 Firmware ... 46 4.10.3 Factory Defaults ... 47 4.10.4 Reboot... 47 4.10.5 Password... 48 4.10.6 Log ... 49 4.10.7 Statistics ... 49 Appendix A: FAQ...

  • Page 7: Chapter 1. Introduction

    ISPs. The router features fully automatically load balance policy, no need for any manually work, it works with backup and load balancing functions. The connection will furbish when one line is broken down, while the streaming will part automatically.

  • Page 8: Panel Layout

    Use the Factory Default Reset button: First, turn off the router's power. Second, press the default reset button, then turn on the router's power, and hold the reset button until the M1 and M2 LED flash simultaneously (about 3 seconds).

  • Page 9: The Rear Panel

    Ensure the router is powered on before it restarts completely. LAN 10/100Mbps RJ45 port for connecting the router to the local PCs WAN RJ45 port for connecting the router to a cable, DSL modem or Ethernet One expansion slot for fiber module, sharing with WAN port, the recommended module is TL-SM21 series.

  • Page 10: Chapter 2. Connecting The Router

    Connect the DSL/Cable modem to the WAN port on the router, shown in Figure 2-1. Connect the AC power adapter to the AC power socket on the router, and the other end into an electrical outlet. The router will start to work automatically.

  • Page 11: Chapter 3. Quick Installation Guide

    LAN, and can be changed as your desire. As an example, we use the default values for description in this guide. Connect the local PCs to the LAN ports on the router. There are then two means to configure the IP address for your PCs.

  • Page 12: Quick Installation Guide

    If so, refer to the following steps for a solution. Is the connection between your PC and the router correct? Note: The Link/Act LEDs of LAN port on the router and LEDs on your PC's adapter should be lit. Is the TCP/IP configuration for your PC correct? Note: If the router's IP address is 192.168.1.1, your PC's IP address must be within the range...
  • Page 13 Using Proxy checkbox, and click OK to finish it. If the User Name and Password are correct, you can configure the router using the web browser. Please click the Quick Setup link on the left of the main menu and the Quick Setup screen will appear.
  • Page 14 ISP. These fields are case sensitive. If you have difficulty with this process, please contact your ISP. If you choose "Dynamic IP", the router will automatically receive the IP parameters from your ISP without needing to enter any parameters.
  • Page 15 After finishing all configurations of basic network parameters, please click Finish button to exit this Quick Setup. Note: Refer to the Status page to check if there is WAN IP address before you use internet, in case. Enterprise Broadband Router User Guide - 14 -...

  • Page 16: Chapter 4. Configuring The Router

    This chapter describes each web page's key functions. 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 17: Quick Setup

    TL-R4000+ Enterprise Broadband Router User Guide Figure 4-1 Router Status Quick Setup Please refer to Section 3.2: "Quick Installation Guide." - 16 -...

  • Page 18: Network

    4.4.1 You can configure the IP parameters of the LAN on this page. 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 in dotted-decimal notation (factory default: 192.168.1.1).

  • Page 19: Wan

    If you are not sure what do you use currently, please contact your ISP to obtain the correct information. If you choose Dynamic IP, the router will automatically get IP parameters from your ISP. You can see the page as follows (Figure 4-4):...
  • Page 20 TL-R4000+ Enterprise Broadband Router User Guide If your ISP gives you one or two DNS addresses, select Use These DNS Servers and enter the primary and secondary addresses into the correct fields. Otherwise, the DNS servers will be assigned dynamically from ISP.
  • Page 21 User Name/Password - Enter the User Name and Password provided by your ISP. These fields are case-sensitive. Connect on Demand - You can configure the router to disconnect your Internet connection after a specified period of inactivity (Max Idle Time). If your Internet...
  • Page 22 TL-R4000+ Enterprise Broadband Router User Guide Connect Manually - You can configure the router to make it connect or disconnect manually. After a specified period of inactivity (Max Idle Time), the router will disconnect your Internet connection, and not be able to re-establish your connection automatically as soon as you attempt to access the Internet again.

  • Page 23: Network Service Detection

    Click the Save button to save your settings. 4.4.3 Network service detection Using WAN Network Service Detection feature on this page, this router can detect the Internet connection online or not. Figure 4-8 WAN Network Service Detection By Ping - Detect whether Internet connection is online or not by Ping.

  • Page 24: Flow Balance

    Your PC's MAC Address - This field displays the MAC address of the PC that is managing the router. If the MAC address is required, you can click the Clone MAC Address button and choose WAN 1 or WAN 2, this MAC address will fill in the WAN 1 MAC Address or WAN 2 MAC Address field as you prefer.

  • Page 25: Balance Policy

    Existed-Application-Table, additionally, some configures for these tables are required. Since these configures are complicated and the defaults have been tested better, you are not suggested to modify them unless you are professional to them. Enterprise Broadband Router User Guide - 24 -...
  • Page 26 Figure 4-11 Balance Policy On Fastest-Session - While try to make a connection, if on of the WAN ports performances fast, then the router will forward the packets from it. • Faster age for Speed-Detect-Table - Faster timeouts for the entries in Speed-Detect-Table.

  • Page 27: Bandwidth Control

    LAN3 is in another VLAN. So LAN1 can communicate with LAN2, but LAN1 or LAN2 cannot communicate with LAN3 Three VLANs - In this VLAN mode, all ports are in different VLANs. So they cannot communicate with each other. Enterprise Broadband Router User Guide Figure 4-13 VLAN Settings - 26 -...

  • Page 28: Port Mirror

    4.5.1 DHCP Settings The router is set up by default as a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server, which provides the TCP/IP configuration for all the PCs that are connected to the router on the LAN. The DHCP Server can be configured on the page (shown in Figure 4-16):...

  • Page 29: Dhcp Clients List

    Secondary DNS - (Optional.) Input the IP address of another DNS server if your ISP provides two DNS servers. Note: To use the DHCP server function of the router, you must configure all computers on the LAN as "Obtain an IP Address automatically" mode. This function will take effect until the router reboots.

  • Page 30: Address Reservation

    MAC Address - The MAC address of the DHCP client Assigned IP - The IP address that the router has allocated to the DHCP client. Lease Time - The time of the DHCP client leased. Before the time is up, DHCP client will request to renew the lease automatically.

  • Page 31: Forwarding

    Click the Next button to go to the next page and Click the Previous button to return the previous page. Note: The function won't take effect until the router reboots. Forwarding Figure 4-19 Forwarding menu There are four submenus under the Forwarding menu: Virtual Servers, Port Triggering, DMZ and UPnP.
  • Page 32 IP Address - The IP address of the PC running the service application Protocol - The protocol used for this application, either TCP, UDP, or All (all protocols supported by the router). Enable - The Enable checkbox to enable the virtual server entry.

  • Page 33: Port Triggering

    Internet calling and so on. These applications cannot work with a pure NAT router. Port Triggering is used for some of these applications that can work with an NAT router. You can set up Port Triggering on this page shown in Figure 4-21:...
  • Page 34 2000-2038, 2050-2051, 2085, 3010-3030. Incoming Protocol - The protocol used for Incoming Ports Range, either TCP or UDP, or ALL (all protocols supported by the router). Enable - The Enable checkbox enables port forwarding for the application. Common Applications - Some popular applications already listed in the pull-down list.

  • Page 35: Dmz

    UPnP devices can be automatically discovered by the UPnP service application on the LAN. You can configure UPnP on this page shown in Figure 4-23: Enterprise Broadband Router User Guide Figure 4-22 DMZ - 34 -...

  • Page 36: Security

    Current UPnP Settings Table - this table displays the current UPnP information. App Description – The description provided by the application in the UPnP • request External Port - External port, which the router opened for the application. • Protocol - Which type of protocol is open. •...

  • Page 37: Ip Address Filtering

    The IP Address Filtering feature allows you to control Internet Access by specific users on your LAN based on their IP addresses. The IP Address Filtering page, Figure 4-26: Figure 4-26 IP Address Filtering Enterprise Broadband Router User Guide - 36 -...
  • Page 38 Protocol - Select which protocol is to be used, either TCP, UDP, or All (all protocols supported by the router). Action - Select either Allow or Deny through the router. Status - Select Enabled or Disabled for this entry on the Status pull-down list.

  • Page 39: Domain Filtering

    TL-R4000+ Enterprise Broadband Router User Guide Click the Delete All button to delete all entries You can change the entry’s order as desired. Fore entries are before hind entries. Enter the ID number in the first box you want to move and another ID number in the second box you want to move to, and then click the Move button to change the entry’s order.

  • Page 40: Mac Filtering

    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 Enterprise Broadband Router User Guide and websites with .net at the end on the Internet - 39 -...
  • Page 41 Click the Disable All button to disable all entries. 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 to the Enterprise Broadband Router User Guide - 40 -...

  • Page 42: Remote Management

    Remote Management You can configure the Remote Management function on this page shown in Figure 4-32. This feature allows you to manage your Router from a remote location, via the Internet. Figure 4-32 Remote Management Web Management Port - Web browser access normally uses the standard HTTP service port 80.

  • Page 43: Advanced Security

    TL-R4000+ 4.7.6 Advanced Security Using Advanced Security page (shown in Figure 4-33), you can protect the router from being attacked by TCP-SYN Flood, UDP Flood and ICMP-Flood from LAN. Figure 4-33 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.

  • Page 44: Static Routing

    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. (Defends against some viruses) Click the Save button to save the settings.

  • Page 45: Ddns

    Internet IP address. It is useful when you are hosting your own website, FTP server, or other server behind the router. Before using this feature, you need to sign up for DDNS service providers www.dyndns.org. The Dynamic DNS client service provider will give you a password or key.

  • Page 46: System Tools

    The detailed explanations for each submenu are provided below. 4.10.1 Time You can set the time manually or get GMT from the Internet for the router on this page (shown in Figure 4-38): Enterprise Broadband Router User Guide...

  • Page 47: Firmware

    Note: 1. This setting will be used for some time-based functions such as firewall. You must specify your time zone when you login to the router successfully, if not, the time limited on these functions will not take effect. 2. The time will be lost if the router is turned off.

  • Page 48: Factory Defaults

    Hardware Version - displays the current hardware version. The hardware version of the upgrade file must accord with the current hardware version. Note: Do not turn off the router or press the Reset button while the firmware is being upgraded. The router will reboot after the upgrading has been finished.

  • Page 49: 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.

  • Page 50: Log

    4.10.6 Log This page shown in Figure 4-43 allows you to query the Logs of the router. 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.
  • Page 51 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. The total amount of packets received and transmitted in the last Packets Packets Statistic interval seconds.

  • Page 52: Appendix A: Faq

    The telephone cord plugs into the Line port of the ADSL modem. Login to the router, click the “Network” menu on the left of your browser, and click "WAN" submenu. On the WAN page, select “PPPoE” for WAN Connection Type.
  • Page 53 DSL modem during installation. If your ISP requires 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 54 (the router’s LAN IP address: Web Management Port) in the address field of the web browser. Login to the router, click the “Forwarding” menu on the left of your browser, and click the "Virtual Servers" submenu. On the "Virtual Server" page, enter “80”...

  • Page 55: Appendix B: Configuring The Pcs

    Network Connections tab in the appearing window. Right click the icon that showed below, select Properties on the prompt page. In the prompt page that showed below, double click on the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Enterprise Broadband Router User Guide Figure 1 - 54 -...
  • Page 56 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: Enterprise Broadband Router User Guide Figure 2 - 55 -...
  • Page 57 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 58 TL-R4000+ Enterprise Broadband Router User Guide Figure 4 - 57 -...

  • Page 59: Appendix C: Specifications

    0℃~40℃ (32℉~104℉) Operating Humidity 10% - 90% RH, Non-condensing Optional Module TL-SM21CM TL-SM21CS-20/40/60 Enterprise Broadband Router User Guide EIA/TIA-568 100Ω STP (maximum 100m) EIA/TIA-568 100Ω STP (maximum 100m) 100Base-FX Multi-Mode Fiber Module (SC connector, up to 2km) 100Base-FX Single-Mode Fiber Module...

  • Page 60: Appendix D: Glossary

    TL-R4000+ Enterprise Broadband 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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