TP-LINK TL-R600VPN User Manual

TL-R600VPN 

  

 

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enter the number of minutes you want to have elapsed before your Internet connection 

terminates. 

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  Connect Automatically - Connect automatically after the router is disconnected. To use this 

option, click the radio button. 

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  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. To use this option, click the radio button. If you want 

your Internet connection to remain active at all times, enter 0 in the Max Idle Time field. 

Otherwise, enter the number in minutes that you wish to have the Internet connecting last 

unless a new link requested. 

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Sometimes the connection cannot be disconnected although you specify a time to Max Idle Time 
because some applications visit the Internet continually in the background. 

Choose menu “Network→LAN”, you can configure the IP parameters of the LAN on the screen 

below. 

 

Figure 4-10 

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  MAC Address  - This field displays the physical address of the LAN. The value can't be 

changed. 

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  IP Address - Enter the IP address for the LAN of the Router, the formal is in dotted-decimal 

notation (the factory default value is 192.168.0.1). 

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  Subnet Mask  - Enter the subnet mask for the LAN of the Router, this address code 

determines the size of the network. Normally use 255.255.255.0 as the subnet mask. 

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1)  If you change the IP address of the LAN, you must use the new IP address to login to the 

router.  

2)  If the new LAN IP Address you set is not in the same subnet, the IP Address pools in the 

DHCP sever will not take effect, until they are re-configured. Besides this, the Virtual