TP-LINK TL-WR841N User Guide

 

  

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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. 

Click the Clear All button to clear all the logs. 

Choose menu “System Tools → Remote Management”, you can configure the Remote 

Management function on this screen (shown in Figure 4-49). This feature allows you to manage 

your Router from a remote location via the Internet. 

 

Figure 4-49 Remote Management 

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The port number used to access the router. 

This router’s 

default remote management web port number is 80

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 For greater security, you’d better 

change the remote management web interface to a custom port by entering that number in 

the box provided. Choose a number between 1024 and 65534, but do not use the number of 

any common service port.

 

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  Remote Management IP Address  - This is the current address you will use when 

accessing your router from the Internet. The default IP address is 0.0.0.0. It means this 

function is disabled. To enable this function, change the default IP address to another IP 

address as desired.   

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1) 

To access the router, you will type your router's WAN IP address into your browser's 

address (in IE) or Location (in Navigator) box, followed by a colon and the custom port 

number. For example, if your Router's WAN address is 202.96.12.8, and the port number 

 in your browser. Later, you may be 

asked for the router's password. After successfully entering the username and password, 

you will be able to access the router's web-based utility. 

2) 

Be sure to change the router's default password to a very secure password. 

Choose menu “System Tools→Statistics”, you can view the statistics of the Router, including 

total traffic and current traffic of the last “Packets Statistic interval” seconds.