User manual TP-LINK TL-PA2015P

[. . . ] These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: • • • • Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. [. . . ] A Power Plug for connecting the adapter to an AC power socket (100–240V~, 50/60Hz). Power Plug* 4 TL-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter Pair Button Pair buttons are used to secure a powerline network. Firstly, plug in a new adapter, and press its pair button for one second; then plug in another adapter and press its pair button for one second as well. After that, wait about 60 seconds so that the two adapters can finish connecting. * The provided power plug may differ from the picture due to different regional power specifications. If the pair button is pressed till all the LEDs turn off (about 10 seconds), the powerline adapter will leave the network which it has joined and its new network name assumes a random value. The Power LED turns off when it disconnects from the powerline network. For detailed information about the pair button, please refer to Chapter 5 Advanced Feature: How to Use the Pair Button. 2. 5 TL-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter Chapter 2 Connecting Mechanism 2. 1 Introduction The Powerline Adapter supports up to 600Mbps data rate. With this high speed connection rate, this Powerline Adapter allows you to set up a high speed home network by using your home existing electrical wiring. Simply plug this Powerline Adapter into an ordinary power outlet to extend your Cable/xDSL broadband connection or existing LAN network to any other electrical outlet in any room of your house. You need to plug one Powerline Adapter into a power outlet for each computer and connect the Powerline Adapter to the computer’s LAN card with an Ethernet cable; you will also need another Powerline Adapter connected to your Cable/xDSL broadband so as to extend your broadband connection or Internet surfing. , Ethernet LED , and Powerline LED on the 7 TL-PA6010 The hardware connection mechanism is shown below: AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter Note: Where the MAINS plug or an appliance coupler is used as the disconnected device, the disconnect device shall remain readily operable. The idle wall sockets or electrical outlets in your household electrical circuit can be used normally without interference from the network. 8 TL-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter Chapter 3 Installing Management Utility Please verify that no other Powerline Adapter or any Encryption Management Utilities are installed before installing the provided software. Additionally, you can select the desired adapter and enter its password (Take note of the password format) so as to set the 15 TL-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter network name of this device on System configuration homepage. To change the name of the remote adapter or enter its password, please follow the steps below: (1) Select the desired device and click the Modify button to display the following dialog. (2) Enter a new name for the selected adapter and enter its password (Take note of the password format). 4. 2. 2 Add Device You can add a remote Powerline Adapter to your network that is not in the displayed list. You are suggested to locate the passwords for all Powerline Adapters you wish to manage and add them to the local logical network by clicking the Add button. This dialog box allows you to enter both the selected device’s name and password. Note that the Powerline Adapter must be present on the power grid in order to activate the set password and be added to the local network. Enter your Device Name and Password (Take note to the password format) and click the Save button after setup. 16 TL-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter 4. 3 Advanced The third tab window labeled “Advanced” is for Quality of Service. With the proper configuration, the limit bandwidth can be took full advantage. QoS requirements are different for various data types such as streaming video or music, voice and raw data. To provide higher QoS for streaming data, priority levels can be set using tags at the beginning of data frames. Virtual Local Area Network (Vlan) 802. 1p priority tags on Ethernet frames are used to specify 8 (0~7) levels of “user priority”. [. . . ] Note: Every Powerline Adapter on your home network MUST have the same Network Password for connectivity to be established throughout your home. 20 TL-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter Chapter 5 Advanced Feature: How to Use the Pair Button 5. 1 Pair (Secure with 128 bits-AES) The Homeplug AV standard uses 128-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) to safely transmit data between powerline adapters. For the powerline adapters to communicate with each other they all need to use the same Network Membership Key (NMK). Otherwise, they cannot unscramble the encrypted data sent in the powerline network. The Pair button allows you to set up a secure powerline connection with another HomePlug AV compliant powerline devices which also support the Pair feature. 5. 2 Set Up a Secured Powerline AV Network with the Pair Button You can connect a number of devices on a powerline network, but you can only use the Pair button on two devices at a time. Create a secured Powerline network using the Pair button： Step 1. [. . . ]