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Router Configuration

WHAT IS IT?

  • Visit the router's IP address (http://192.168.0.1) in a new browser window.

  • We will get the login page.

  • Since we have set a password, I entered a password to get into router setting.

  • If you are log into new router, they have default username and password.

  • Enter that one, 

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Enter the router IP

Enter router userID & password

Click to login

  • This page will appear after login to the router.

  • Here it allows to changes in a network like from changing the password to make static IP to a host.

Setup a Global IP

  • To set a static (Global/External) IP on the router, open setting > Setup > Internet > Internet Connetion Setup Wizard.

  • Before you begin, you will need to gather all of the following (contact your ISP if you do not have this information):

    • IP Address

    • Subnet Mask

    • Gateway Address

    • Primary DNS Address

    • Secondary DNS Address

  • Access the router setup.

  • Click Setup > Internet > Internet Connection Setup Wizard.

  • On the initial Connection Setup Wizard screen, click Next.

  • Set and verify an administrator password. 

  • Select a time zone and click Next.

  • On the Configure Your Internet Connection screen, select Static IP Address Connectionand click Next.

  • Enter all of the required information for your Static IP Address Connection and DNS Settings, then click Next.

  • On the Setup Complete! screen, click Connect.

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  • On the Reboot Needed screen, choose whether to reboot now or later. Your router must reboot for your new settings to take effect.

Setup a Gateway

  • The default gateway is the same address that we use to access my router settings.

  • And the other computer and devices in the network will have the same gateway address, as they are connected through this gateway. 

Setup Primary and Secondary DNS

  • Every router set up with 2 DNS server.

  • DNS means, Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses.

  • In router setup, go to A

  • Give DNS server address by your choice, we can also use the Google's DNS which is more reliable & efficient.

  • i.e. primary = 8.8.8.8

  •  secondary = 8.8.4.4

  • Open router setup.

  • Click on the Manual Internet Connection Setup button at the bottom.

  • Enter the Google DNS addresses in Primary DNS Server and Secondary DNS Server fields.

  • Click Save Settings button at the buttom to take effect.

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Set Primary & Secondary DNS

Setup Wifi Network Name & Password

  • To change the Wireless Network name and password, go to router setting > Setup > Wireless Settings > Manual Wireless Connection Setup.

  • Set the Wireless Network name.

  • Set the Security Mode as "WPA-Personal" to make your network password protected.

  • You can create more than one wireless network with different Wireless Network Name with a different password and wireless band (eg. 2.4GHz, 5GHz etc).

Set as WPA

Set a Network name

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  • Set a password.

  • Click on Save Setting.

  • The wireless devices need to enter the password to connect to this network.

Set a password

Configuring DHCP Server

  • In our network, this router acts as a DHCP server.

  • DHCP short for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automatically assigns a device-specific IP address to each device on our router's network.

  • It ensures that no two devices will share an IP address and avoids encounter connection errors.

  • In routers setting, we should keep DHCP as enable.

Setup IP Pool

  • Here you can also specify the numbers of total IP addresses that you want to distribute by assigning Starting and Ending IP addresses.

  • As I have assigned 100 to 199, that means 200th devices will not be able to connect to my network.

  • DHCP cannot assign an IP address to host more than its range, as the maximum limit of distributing IP address it set to 199.

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Enter the IP range

Setup Lease Time

  • The lease time is set to 10080 minutes by default that literally means 7 days of lease time.

  • That is a DHCP server feature only apply to the device with dynamic IP address.

  • If a device is not a static IP address, then a network user will be allowed to keep connecting to the router for a specified minute (here 7 days) with current DHCP address.

  • To do so, go to router setup > Setup > Network Setting > Change the value in DHCP lease time.

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  • To check the lease time of a device connected to our network.

  • Go to router setting, Setup > Network Setting.

  • See the Number of Dynamic DHCP clients section.

  • Here is all leases are active at moment after connecting two cellphones to the wifi network with.

  • This table has IP address, MAC address with a lease time of a device.

  • You can see I conneted two Cellphone to the router through wifi, the lease time started.

Bhanu's Cellphone

Birenn's Cellphone

Lease Time

Set Static IP Address

  • We can set a static IP address for any computer or devices.

  • Which I can do by checking the Address Reservation setting on any router setup.

  • Here I am using a D-Link router.

  • On the router, setting click on Setup > Network Setting.

  • To set a permanent IP address to a particular MAC address,  put the connected device name or you can put device detail in that field.

  • Click the arrow button to fill the text field.

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  • After getting filled the detail, click on Add/Update button.

  • You can see the DHCP Reservation List contains one device.

  • If the desktop set the DHCP server enabled, he will get this static IP.

  • And reboot the router to make an effect.

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The static IP devices

  • To making this setting permanent, click on Save Setting.

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