TP-Link TL-R480T+ User Manual
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- Page 1 TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router Intel IXP Core, Main Frequency up to 266MHz Double-bandwidth Access and Supports Load Balancing...
- 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 EC DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY (EUROPE) In compliance with the EMC Directive 89/336/EEC, Low Voltage Directive 73/23/EEC, this product meets the requirements of the following standards: EN55022 EN55024 EN60950 SAFETY NOTICES Caution: Do not use this product near water, for example, in a wet basement or near a swimming pool.
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
Package contents......................1 Chapter 1: About this Guide ....................2 1.1 Purposes......................2 1.2 Conventions ......................2 1.3 Overview of this User Guide ................2 Chapter 2: Introduction...................... 3 2.1 Overview of the Router ..................3 2.2 Features....................... 3 2.3 Panel Layout ......................4 2.3.1 The Front Panel .................. - Page 5 5.7.2 IP Address Filtering.................. 33 5.7.3 Domain Filtering..................35 5.7.4 MAC Filtering ................... 37 5.7.5 Remote Management ................38 5.7.6 Advanced Security ................... 39 5.8 Static Routing..................... 40 5.9 DDNS......................... 41 5.10 System Tools....................42 5.10.1 Time ....................... 42 5.10.2 Firmware ....................43 5.10.3 Factory Defaults..................
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Page 6: Package Contents
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Package contents The following contents should be found in your box: One TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router One power cord for TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router One Resource CD for TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router, including: •... -
Page 7: Chapter 1: About This Guide
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Chapter 1: About this Guide Thank you for choosing the TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router. This router provides dedicated solutions for Internet cafe and small/medium/sizable enterprise with volumes of users. With your network all connected, your local network can share Internet access, files and fun for multiple PCs through one ISP account. -
Page 8: Chapter 2: Introduction
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction 2.1 Overview of the Router The TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router possesses excellent throughput and driving load capability, which consumedly meets the requirements from Internet café and small/medium/sizable enterprise with volumes of users, making a more expedite communication. -
Page 9: Panel Layout
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Ignores Ping packets from WAN or LAN ports Supports firmware upgrade Supports Remote and Web management 2.3 Panel Layout 2.3.1 The Front Panel The front panel of the TL-R480T+ consists of several LED indicators, which is designed to indicate connections. -
Page 10: The Rear Panel
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide WAN RJ45 port for connecting the router to a cable, DSL modem or Ethernet 2.3.2 The Rear Panel The rear panel of the TL-R480T+ only features a power receptacle, which is an AC power receptacle. -
Page 11: Chapter 3: Connecting The Router
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Chapter 3: Connecting the Router 3.1 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 RJ45 connectors TCP/IP protocol must be installed on each PC Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later, Netscape Navigator... - Page 12 TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide TL -R 480 T+ Link/Act L i n k/Act Link/ Ac t L i n k/ Act L i n k/ Act RE SET Power 10 0M 1 00 M 100M 1 00 M 100M Dual-WAN Ent erpr ise Broadband Router To WAN...
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Page 13: Chapter 4: Quick Installation Guide
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Chapter 4: Quick Installation Guide After connecting the TL-R480T+ router into your network, you should configure it. This chapter describes how to configure the basic functions of your TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router. These procedures only take you a few minutes. You can access the Internet via the router immediately after it has been successfully configured. -
Page 14: Quick Installation Guide
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide your PC and the router has been established. Figure 4-2 Failed result of Ping command If the result displayed is similar to what shown in figure 4-2, it means that your PC has not connected to the router. - Page 15 TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Note: If the above screen does not prompt, it means that your web-browser has been set to a proxy. Go to Tools menu>Internet Options>Connections>LAN Settings, in the screen that appears, cancel the 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.
- Page 16 TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Figure 4-7 Quick Setup - PPPoE User Name and Password - Enter the User Name and Password provided by your ISP. These fields are case sensitive. If you have difficulty with this process, please contact your ISP.
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Page 17: Chapter 5: Configuring The Router
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Chapter 5: Configuring the Router This chapter describes each web page's key functions. 5.1 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-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Figure 5-1 Router Status 5.3 Quick Setup Please refer to Section 4.2: "Quick Installation Guide." - 13 -... -
Page 19: Network
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide 5.4 Network Figure 5-2 Network menu There are nine submenus under the Network menu (shown in figure 5-2): LAN, WAN, Network Service Detection, MAC Clone, Flow Balance, Balance Policy, Bandwidth, VLAN and Port Mirror. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. -
Page 20: Wan
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide If the new LAN IP Address you set is not in the same subnet, the IP Address pool of the DHCP sever will not take effect, until it is re-configured. If the new LAN IP Address you set is not in the same subnet, the Virtual Server and DMZ Host may change accordingly at the same time, you’d better re-configure it as well. - Page 21 TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide rarely required, and should not be done unless you are sure it is necessary for your ISP connection. 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.
- Page 22 TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide But this is rarely required, and should not be done unless you are sure it is necessary for your ISP connection. Primary DNS - (Optional) Type the DNS address in dotted-decimal notation provided by your ISP. Secondary DNS - (Optional) Type another DNS address in dotted-decimal notation provided by your ISP if provided.
- Page 23 TL-R480T+ Load Balance 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.
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Page 24: Network Service Detection
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide DNS IP Address - If you know that your ISP does not automatically transmit DNS 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. -
Page 25: Flow Balance
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Some ISPs require that you register the MAC address of your adapter, which is connected to your cable, DSL modem or Ethernet during installation. You do not generally need to change anything here. WAN 1 MAC Address - This field displays the current MAC address of the WAN 1 port, which is used for the WAN 1 port. -
Page 26: Balance Policy
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Figure 5-10 Flow Balance Additional IP Address Scheduler Rules - You can specify some prior forwarding scheduler rules in this field to distribute the loads. And you can enter an IP address or a range of IP addresses such as 192.168.1.100 or 192.168.1.115 - 192.168.1.120. - Page 27 TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Figure 5-11 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.
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Page 28: Bandwidth Control
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide On Existed-Application - If one application will raise more than 2 connections, then all the packets of this application will forwarded from the same WAN port. • Age for Application-Table - Normal timeouts for the entries in Application-Table. •... -
Page 29: Port Mirror
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Two VLANs - In this VLAN mode, the LAN1 and LAN2 are in one VLAN, and the 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. -
Page 30: Dhcp Clients List
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Figure 5-16 DHCP Settings 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. Start IP Address - This field specifies the first of the addresses in the IP address pool. -
Page 31: Address Reservation
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Figure 5-17 DHCP Clients List Index - The index of the DHCP Client 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. Lease Time - The time of the DHCP client leased. -
Page 32: Forwarding
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Enter the MAC address (The format for the MAC address is XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX.) and IP address in dotted-decimal notation of the computer you wish to add. Click the Save button when finished. To modify A Reserved IP address: Select the reserved address entry as you desire, and modify it. - Page 33 TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Figure 5-20 Virtual Servers Service Port - The numbers of External Ports. You can type a service port or a range of service ports (the format is XXX – YYY, XXX is Start port, YYY is End port).
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Page 34: Port Triggering
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Click the Save button. To delete a service entry: Clear the entry's all information except for the Protocol pull-down list. Click the Save button. To delete all service entries: 1. Click the Clear All button. 2. - Page 35 TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Trigger Port - The port for outgoing traffic. An outgoing connection using this port will "Trigger" this rule. Trigger Protocol - The protocol used for Trigger Ports, either TCP,UDP, or All (all protocols supported by the router). Incoming Ports Range - The port or port range used by the remote system when it responds to the outgoing request.
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Page 36: Dmz
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Note: When the trigger connection is released, the according opening ports will be closed. Each rule allowed to be used only by one host on LAN synchronously. The trigger connection of other hosts on LAN will be refused. Incoming Port Range cannot overlap each other. -
Page 37: Security
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Enable UPnP - UPnP can be enabled or disabled by clicking the Enable or Disable button. As allowing this may present a risk to security, this feature is disabled by default. Current UPnP Settings Table - this table displays the current UPnP information. App Description –... -
Page 38: Ip Address Filtering
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Figure 5-25 Firewall Settings Enable Firewall - The general firewall switch is on or off. 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 Reny passing through the router. - Page 39 TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide 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. The page "Add or Modify an IP Address Filtering entry "...
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Page 40: Domain Filtering
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Click the Disable All button to disable all entries. 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 41 TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Figure 5-29 Add or Modify a Domain Filtering entry To add or modify a Domain Filtering entry, follow these instructions: Effective Time - Enter a range of time in HHMM format, which point to the range time for the entry to take effect.
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Page 42: Mac Filtering
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide 5.7.4 MAC Filtering Like the IP Address Filtering page, the MAC Address Filtering page (shown in figure 5-30) allows you to control access to the Internet by users on your local network based on their MAC addresses. -
Page 43: Remote Management
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Click the Enable All button to enable all entries. 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 previous page. -
Page 44: Advanced Security
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Note: Be sure to change the router's default password to a very secure password. 5.7.6 Advanced Security Using Advanced Security page (shown in figure 5-33), you can protect the router from being attacked by TCP-SYN Flood, UDP Flood and ICMP-Flood from LAN. Figure 5-33 Advanced Security settings Packets Statistic interval (5 ~ 60) - The default value is 10. -
Page 45: Static Routing
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide TCP-SYN-FLOOD Packets threshold: (5 ~ 3600) - The default value is 50. Enter a value between 5 ~ 3600 packets. When the current TCP-SYN-FLOOD Packets numbers is beyond the set value, the router will start up the blocking function immediately. -
Page 46: Ddns
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Figure 5-35 Static Routing To add static routing entries: 1. 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. Subnet Mask - The Subnet Mask determines which portion of an IP address is the network portion, and which portion is the host portion. -
Page 47: System Tools
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Figure 5-36 DDNS Settings 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. Click the Login button to login to the DDNS service. Connection Status: The status of the DDNS service connection is displayed here. -
Page 48: Firmware
Figure 5-39 Firmware Upgrade New firmware versions are posted at www.tp-link.com and can be downloaded for free. If the router is not experiencing difficulties, there is no need to download a more recent firmware version, unless the version has a new feature that you want to use. -
Page 49: Factory Defaults
To upgrade the router's firmware, follow these instructions: Download a more recent 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: Password
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Figure 5-41 Reboot the router Click the Reboot button to reboot the router. Some settings of the router will take effect only after rebooting, which include: • Change LAN IP Address. (System will reboot automatically) •... -
Page 51: Log
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide 5.10.6 Log This page (shown in figure 5-43) allows you to query the Logs of the router. Figure 5-43 System Log The router can keep logs of all traffic. You can query the logs to find what happened to the router. - Page 52 TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Statistics Table: The IP address displayed with statistics IP Address The total amount of packets received and transmitted by the router. Packets Total The total amount of bytes received and transmitted by the router. Bytes The total amount of packets received and transmitted in the last Packets Packets...
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Page 53: Appendix A: Faq
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband 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 54 TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Some ISPs require that you register the MAC address of your adapter, which is connected to your cable or 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"...
- Page 55 TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide “Enable” radio and type your IP address into the “DMZ Host IP Address” field, using 192.168.1.169 as an example, remember to click the "Save” button. Figure A-5 DMZ I want to build a WEB Server on the LAN, what should I do? Because the WEB Server port 80 will interfere with the WEB management port 80 on the router, you must change the WEB management port number to avoid interference.
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Page 56: Appendix B: Configuring The Pcs
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband 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 95/98. First make sure your Ethernet Adapter is working, refer to the adapter’s manual if needed. - Page 57 TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide window that appears. An example is shown in the following figure: Figure B-3 Configuration tab Click on Properties. 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: •...
- Page 58 TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Figure B-5 Gateway tab Choose Disable DNS on the DNS configuration tab, as shown in the following figure: Figure B-6 DNS Configuration tab • Setting IP address manually Select Specify an IP address on IP Address tab, as shown in the following figure.
- Page 59 TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Figure B-7 IP Address tab Type the router’s LAN IP address (the default IP is 192.168.1.1) into the New gateway field on the Gateway tab, and click on the Add button, as shown in the figure: Figure B-8 Gateway tab On the DNS Configuration tab, click Enable DNS radio, and type your computer name in to the Host field and a Domain (such as szonline.com)
- Page 60 TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide click Add button. Shown below: Figure B-9 DNS Configuration tab Now, all the configurations are finished, it will take effect after reboot. - 55 -...
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Page 61: Appendix C: Specifications
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Appendix C: Specifications General Standards IEEE 802.3, 802.3u Protocols TCP/IP, PPPoE, DHCP, ICMP, NAT, SNTP Ports Three 10/100M Auto-Negotiation LAN RJ45 ports supporting Auto MDI/MDIX Two 10/100M Auto-Negotiation WAN RJ45 ports. One Console (RS232 DB9 Male) Cabling Type 10BASE-T: UTP category 3, 4, 5 cable (maximum 100m) EIA/TIA-568 100Ω... -
Page 62: Appendix D: Glossary
TL-R480T+ Load Balance 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. -
Page 63: Appendix E: Contact Information
TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide Appendix E: Contact Information For help with the installation or operation of the TP-LINK TL-R480T+ Load Balance Broadband Router, please contact us. support@tp-link.com E-mail: http://www.tp-link.com Website: - 58 -...