richard dynes
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After several searches I found the info below from an obvious techie ... He initially had the same problem I did, I don't feel quite as bad at this point.
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TP-Link setup, the real way
I couldn't really be bothered to work my way through the web links about WDS that I had found yesterday, so today I put the other router where I wanted it, at teevee, and used the powerline Ethernet connection to access it. As I suspected, the stupid installation instructions aren't just plain wrong some of the time, they're much more complicated than the real thing. To configure a TP-Link TL-WR841N 802.11n wireless router, do this:
1. Ensure that you have an address in the 192.168.0.0/24 address range.
2. Connect to one of the LAN connectors.
3. Access http://192.168.0.1/ with a browser.
4. Log in as admin, password admin. This information is also written on the underside of the router.
5. Select Quick Start and follow the prompts.
And that's it! No long, strange and easily misspelt names, no disruption of your network topography, no changes in your Microsoft IP settings. Of course, there are many other things you can do, notably disable DHCP, but with this you can do everything that the SimplisticEasy Setup does.
We did some further investigation of http://tplinklogin.net/ on IRC today, and came to the surprising discovery that the domain doesn't even belong to TP-Link!
The whois information shows:
** *Domain Name: TPLINKLOGIN.NET ** *Registrant: ** * * *Above.com Domain Privacy ** * * *8 East concourse ** * * *Beaumaris ** * * *VIC ** * * *3193 ** * * *AU ** * * *tplinklogin.net@privacy.above.com ** * * *Tel. +61.390057904
Now doubtless this is a domain name squatter, but what a stupid thing for TP-Link to do: require specific topology for configuration, use a name instead of a (shorter) IP address for the device, and then not even own the domain! I'm amazed.
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TP-Link setup, the real way
I couldn't really be bothered to work my way through the web links about WDS that I had found yesterday, so today I put the other router where I wanted it, at teevee, and used the powerline Ethernet connection to access it. As I suspected, the stupid installation instructions aren't just plain wrong some of the time, they're much more complicated than the real thing. To configure a TP-Link TL-WR841N 802.11n wireless router, do this:
1. Ensure that you have an address in the 192.168.0.0/24 address range.
2. Connect to one of the LAN connectors.
3. Access http://192.168.0.1/ with a browser.
4. Log in as admin, password admin. This information is also written on the underside of the router.
5. Select Quick Start and follow the prompts.
And that's it! No long, strange and easily misspelt names, no disruption of your network topography, no changes in your Microsoft IP settings. Of course, there are many other things you can do, notably disable DHCP, but with this you can do everything that the SimplisticEasy Setup does.
We did some further investigation of http://tplinklogin.net/ on IRC today, and came to the surprising discovery that the domain doesn't even belong to TP-Link!
The whois information shows:
** *Domain Name: TPLINKLOGIN.NET ** *Registrant: ** * * *Above.com Domain Privacy ** * * *8 East concourse ** * * *Beaumaris ** * * *VIC ** * * *3193 ** * * *AU ** * * *tplinklogin.net@privacy.above.com ** * * *Tel. +61.390057904
Now doubtless this is a domain name squatter, but what a stupid thing for TP-Link to do: require specific topology for configuration, use a name instead of a (shorter) IP address for the device, and then not even own the domain! I'm amazed.
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