How to use the Power cat

Power Cat, also known as the Power Network Bridge, its biggest bright spot is that it can transmit the network signal through the wire, which effectively solves the problem that the wireless signal of the ordinary wireless router has weak ability to pass through the wall. But a lot of friends for the use of router settings to understand, but for the recent years began to popular power cat installation settings do not understand, today's small set to bring detailed power cat setup graphics and text tutorial, still do not know how to use friends, quickly to increase knowledge bar.

How does a power cat work? In simple terms, there are four steps, which are divided into electric cat with Extender pairing, Power cat installation, power cat setting and wireless Internet connection, below we complete the setup step-by-step.

One, the power cat pair of power cat a set of 2, a main for the power of the cat routing, an Extender, where the Extender support multiple, users can buy alone, the current mainstream power cats can generally support up to 7 extender. In the first step before the use of the power cat, we need to do a pairing of the Power cat Routing and extender before the Extender can be used properly, as an example of Tp-llink power cat pairing.

Power cat pairing is simpler, the choice of the Power cat Routing and Extender, while plugged into the power plug, and then press the power of the cat Routing and extender of the pairing key, about 30 seconds later, the Power cat and the Extender led has become illuminated steady, this shows that the power of the cat and the extender pair success.

Detailed Tutorial: How the Power cat paired with Tp-link Power cat and Extender pairing tutorial

Ps. Different brand of power cat pairing method is basically the same, all by matching the key time pairing, the general idea is so, I believe you can get started reading this article.

Second, power Cat installed power CAT installation and router installation is basically the same, we can simply the power of the cat to see the ordinary wireless router can, through the following map, we can very simple understand that the power of Cats, Morden (CAT) and computer connection.

Schematic diagram of power cat installation

The figure above is a common dial-up Internet Power Cat installation diagram, if it is a fiber optic cable, without Morden (cat) equipment, fiber network cable directly plugged into the Power cat Wan Port, LAN port is also connected to the computer, the connection is simpler.

Third, the power of the cat set up a tutorial power cat settings and ordinary wireless router is basically similar to the following also to Tp-link Power cat set up tutorial as an example.

1, complete the Power cat pairing and installation of the connection, then you can turn on the computer, and then open the browser, and enter 192.168.1.1, finished press ENTER to open. After the opening will look like the router and the same settings interface, the first choice to create a power cat login Administrator password, as shown in the following figure.

Enter 2 times to create a password, click on the bottom of the OK.

2, click OK, you can enter the power of the cat background settings interface, the operation and router settings, the first click on the left list of the "Setup Wizard", as shown in the following figure.

3, then click Next in the prompt interface, next will enter the Internet Mode Setup Wizard, if the home broadband is dial-up Internet, then choose PPPoE (ADLs virtual dial-up), and then click the bottom of the "next", as shown in the following figure.

4, the next is to fill out ADSL internet broadband account, this step is very important, if you fill in the wrong, will lead to the Internet. This Internet account and password is provided to you by the network business, if forgotten, please call the Network Business Customer service telephone consultation to obtain, enter account number and password, still click on the bottom of the "next" as shown in the following figure.

Fill in the Broadband account password (* Important, please carefully fill in)

5, the next is wireless settings, where the SSID is to fill out the name of the WiFi network, that is, mobile phone search can be seen when the wireless network name can be arbitrarily filled out, they like the good, such as the small set here into a Pepsi Web site: WWW.PC841.COM. Then the following 6 need to fill in the PSK password, this is the WiFi password, the proposal is as complex as possible, to prevent others from rubbing the net, after the completion of the click on the bottom of the "next", as shown in the following figure.

Set WiFi name and WiFi password

6, the next prompt settings to complete the interface, directly click on the bottom of the "finish" can be completed the power of the cat settings, as shown in the following figure.

Click to complete the return to the main interface, we can look at the WAN port status, if the normal access to the IP address, child mask, gateway and DNS address, the WAN port dial success, if not the case, please check the Broadband account password is not filled out wrong.

Check that the WAN port is in the correct state

Four, wireless internet connection finally is to test whether the computer and mobile phone can surf the internet. The computer opens the browser, then opens the webpage to try, but the mobile phone user can turn on the WiFi connection, then finds the WWW.PC841.COM network connection which we have just set up, then enters the WiFi password which the above set is connected to the Internet, then tries the mobile phone to be able WiFi to surf the internet.

If the power cat can make the mobile phone computer can access the Internet, the setup is complete, and then we can plug the Power cat extender into the other room's electrical outlet, so that the Power cat network is transmitted through the wire to the Extender, the Extender is able to transmit the WiFi signal, and the Extender is equipped with a NIC interface, It can also be used to connect to a desktop computer.

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In general, the power cat and the router in the installation and setup of the basic exactly the same, the difference is only the power of the cat's extender needs and power cat pairing. The power cat and the Extender can transmit the network signal directly through the wire, which effectively solves the problem that the wireless router's signal coverage is not far or the wall-piercing ability is insufficient.