Archer A7 & C7 User Guide

Chapter 5 TP-Link Cloud Service

TP-Link Cloud service provides a better way to manage your cloud devices. Log in to your router with a TP-Link ID, and you can easily monitor and manage your home network when you are out and about via the Tether app. To ensure that your router stays new and gets better over time, the TP-Link Cloud will notify you when an important firmware upgrade is avaliable. Surely you can also manage multiple TP-Link Cloud devices with a single TP-Link ID.

This chapter introduces how to register a new TP-Link ID, bind or unbind TP-Link IDs to manage your router, and the Tether app with which you can manage your home network no matter where you may find yourself.

It contains the following sections:

•Register a TP-Link ID

•Change Your TP-Link ID Information

•Manage the User TP-Link IDs

•Manage the Router via the TP-Link Tether App

1. Register a TP-Link ID

If you have skipped the registration during the Quick Setup process, you can:

1.Visit http://tplinkwifi.net, and log in with the password you set for the router.

2.Go to Basic > TP-Link Cloud.

3.Click Register Now and follow the instructions to register a TP-Link ID.

4.After activating your TP-Link ID, come back to the TP-Link Cloud page to log in. The first-time login TP-Link ID will be bound automatically to your cloud router as an Admin.

Note:

•To learn more about the Admin and User TP-Link ID, refer to Manage the User TP-Link IDs.

•You can register another TP-Link ID via the Tether APP. Please refer to Manage the Router via the TP-Link Tether App to install the app and register a new one

•If you want to unbind the admin TP-Link ID from your router, please go to Basic > TP-Link Cloud, click Unbind in the Device Information section.

2. Change Your TP-Link ID Information

Follow the steps below to modify your TP-Link ID as needed.

1.Visit http://tplinkwifi.net, and log in with your TP-Link ID.

2.Go to Basic > TP-Link Cloud, and focus on the Account Information section.

•To change your email address

1.Click behind the Email.

2.Enter the password of your TP-Link ID, then a new email address. And click Save.

•To change your password

1.Click behind the Password.

2.Enter the current password, then a new password twice. And click Save.

3. Manage the User TP-Link IDs

The first-time login TP-Link ID will be bound automatically to your router as an Admin account. An admin account can add or remove other TP-Link IDs to the same router as Users. The admin account and User accounts both can monitor and manage the router locally or remotely, but user accounts cannot:

•Reset the router to its factory default settings either on the web management page or in the Tether app.

•Add/remove other TP-Link IDs to/from the router.

3.1. Add TP-Link ID to Manage the Router

1.Visit http://tplinkwifi.net, and log in with your TP-Link ID.

2.Go to Basic > TP-Link Cloud, and focus on the Bound Accounts section.

3.Click , enter another TP-Link ID as needed and click Save.

Note:

If you need another TP-Link ID, please refer to Manage the Router via the TP-Link Tether App to install the app and register a new one.

4.The new TP-Link ID will be displayed in the Bound Accounts table as a User.

3.2. Remove TP-Link ID(s) from Managing the Router

1.Visit http://tplinkwifi.net, and log in with your TP-Link ID.

2.Go to Basic > TP-Link Cloud, and focus on the Bound Accounts section.

3.Tick the checkbox(es) of the TP-Link ID(s) you want to remove and click Unbind.

4. Manage the Router via the TP-Link Tether App

The Tether app runs on iOS and Android devices like smartphones and tablets.

1.Open the Apple App Store or Google Play and search the key word “TP-Link Tether” or simply scan the QR code to download and install the app.

2.Launch the Tether app and log in with your TP-Link ID.

Note: If you don’t have a TP-Link ID, create one first.

3.Connect your device to the router’s wireless network.

4.Go back to the Tether app, select the model of your router and log in with the password you set for the router.

5.Manage your router as needed.