TP LINK WR740N AS WIRELESS EXTENDER OR ACCESS POINT

TL-WR740N

HIGHLIGHTS:

• 150Mbps wireless data rates ideal for video streaming, online gaming and internet calling
• Wireless security encryption easily at a push of QSS button
• IP based bandwidth control allows administrators to determine how much bandwidth is allotted to each PC
• WDS wireless bridge provides seamless bridging to expand your wireless network

Scenario:

Office with a single Dlink 2640B Router Modem who which to extend the capability of wireless reception through out the whole 3 floor building with direct access to internet without going through proxy server or firewall.

Process:

1. Setup the Dlink 2640B with DHCP for the range of item that require a static IP Address. For example if you have to setup 2 device, then you can set the DHCP from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.10 (For future expansion). Now we are going to assign the Ip Address for all the TP-Link router.
2. Make sure you are able to browse the internet from your computer either through wifi or cable connection from the modem.
3. If your IP Address for the modem starts with 192.168.1.1, depending on the area and determine how many TP-Link router that you need to fully cover the area.
4. In our scenario, we need totally six TP-Link router. Therefore we will assign each of the router starting with 192.168.1.2~7. Main router will be as 192.168.1.2
5. Setup the Main router (192.168.1.2). Enable DHCP on this router and since the static IP that we assign is 192.168.1.7, therefore the start address we assign 192.168.1.10~250 (3 IP Address reserve for any future expansion). Put in the Default Gateway IP Address of the modem, in our case is 192.168.1.1. Check with your local ISP for the DNS server address for the modem and put the IP Address for the primary and secondary DNS column. Reboot the router.
6. Login again to the router and click on Wireless settings. Assign a meaningful SSID for the router in the event you require to do any setting on the router and you are able to find its location easily. Also select the country that you are at.
7. Next setup the wireless password. In our case we just use the personal password with AES encryption.
8. Connecting the TP-Link router 192.168.1.2 to the modem by plugging in the ethernet cable at the WAN Port at the router and LAN port at the modem. Connect the computer to the router SSID (not the modem), and try to browse the internet.
9. The rest of the router will be the same process except the DHCP is all off since we have our prime router working as a DHCP server.

Bear in mind that in the market, there are device which its purpose is to boost the wireless signal which we call it wifi booster that can be easily configure rather than the router in this article. Basically this process is for anyone that have a spare router and wish to configure it as an access point.

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LAPTOPS OR NOTEBOOKS

The terms laptop and notebook before even beginning work on this book, not only with how to use them in the content but especially with the title. Although it was not necessarily true in the beginning, in the current context of the industry, these terms are used interchangeably to describe systems. The truth is, there is no consistent industry-wide definition of what is a laptop computer and what is a notebook computer.
Originally, there was some unofficial size differentiation between what was considered a laptop versus what was considered a notebook (the term notebook was used to describe an arbitrarily smaller version of a laptop). However, more recently that distinction has completely disappeared. Standardization on screen technology, screen sizes, as well as keyboard/pointing device layout and size have all served to muddy and eventually dissolve any differences between what was once considered a laptop and what was considered a notebook. The fact that virtually all modern portables include 13-inch (diagonal) or larger screens (which is why innovations such as the ThinkPad 701 "butterfly" collapsible keyboard arent used anymore) as well as industry-standard keyboard layouts, integrating a pointing device and palm rest, has served to greatly equalize the sizes of such systems. There are still differences in weight and thickness between various makes and models, but in general, modern laptop/notebook systems, from the least to the most powerful and expensive, come in very similar sizes.
So what do we call these systems now? Are they laptops or notebooks? Virtually all manufacturers now use the term notebook to describe all their portable systems, from huge desktop replacements down to ultra-slim or ultra-light models. Unfortunately, outside the advertising and marketing world, few people seem to use the term notebook. Perhaps that is because if you just say "notebook," it seems too generic and could refer to something other than a computer, and thus be easily misunderstood. You almost have to say "notebook computer" for it to become clear what you mean. On the other hand, if you say "laptop," most people immediately know that you mean "laptop computer," because the term is much more widely recognized.
I conducted some informal polls of my own. In the most telling of these, I showed people a picture of a modern portable computer system and asked them, "What do you call this type of computer?" Virtually everybody replied, "A laptop!" In other cases, I asked people what the word notebook means, and I received a variety of answers, not all having to do with computers. Then I asked them what the word laptop means, and almost everybody understood it as a type of portable computer. Maybe Ive just been around too long, but I think youll find as I did that laptop is simply a much more recognizable and familiar term than notebook, whether you actually ever use one on your lap or not.
So, in spite of the industry marketing preferences for the word notebook, and even though laptop computers and notebook computers are the same thing, I decided not to call this book Upgrading and Repairing Notebooks (it even sounds weird), but instead decided to use the more understandable and recognizable Upgrading and Repairing Laptops title instead.
Throughout this book, youll find that just as is done in the industry, I use the terms interchangeably (that is, I say "laptop" or "notebook," or both), and in almost all cases they mean exactly the same thing.

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