User manual TP-LINK TL-PA551 X3

[. . . ] TL-PA551 AV500+ Powerline Adapter with AC Pass Through Rev: 1. 0. 0 1910010649 COPYRIGHT & TRADEMARKS Specifications are subject to change without notice. Other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. No part of the specifications may be reproduced in any form or by any means or used to make any derivative such as translation, transformation, or adaptation without permission from TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO. , LTD. http://www. tp-link. com CE Mark Warning This is a class B product. [. . . ] For detailed information about the pair button, please refer to Charpter 5 Advanced Feature: How to Use the Pair Buttons. 2. 5 TL-PA551 AV500+ Powerline Adapter with AC Pass Through Chapter 2 Connecting Mechanism 2. 1 Introduction The Powerline Adapter supports up to 500Mbps 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. 2． Connect the other end of the Ethernet (RJ-45) cable to an available Ethernet port of your ADSL broadband Router. 3． Plug the Powerline Adapter into a wall socket next to the computer. , Ethernet LED , and Powerline LED on the 7 TL-PA551 AV500+ Powerline Adapter with AC Pass Through The hardware connection mechanism is shown below: 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-PA551 AV500+ Powerline Adapter with AC Pass Through Chapter 3 Installing Management Utility Please verify that no other Powerline Adapter or any Encryption Management Utilities are installed before installing the provided software. If other Powerline Utilities are installed, uninstall them and restart your personal computer before installing this provided software. Note: To install Management Utility, please make sure that WinPcap 4. 1. 2 has been installed in your computer. Take the following procedures to properly install the provided Management Utility: Step 1: Insert the Resource CD into your CD-ROM drive, and then the following Setup Wizard will automatically pop up on your computer’s screen. Step 2: Select 500Mbps Powerline and click Management Utility, and then the program installation process will carry out and copy all the necessary files to your system. 9 TL-PA551 AV500+ Powerline Adapter with AC Pass Through 10 TL-PA551 AV500+ Powerline Adapter with AC Pass Through 11 TL-PA551 AV500+ Powerline Adapter with AC Pass Through Step 3: After the installation, a shortcut to the “Powerline Utility” application icon is provided on the windows desktop. 12 TL-PA551 AV500+ Powerline Adapter with AC Pass Through Chapter 4 Using the Management Utility After you’d successfully installed the Powerline Adapter hardware and Management Utility software, you can set up or configure the devices according to your need. This Powerline Utility enables the users to identify powerline devices on the powerline network, measures data rate performance and ensures privacy by setting user defined secure powerline networks. Double click on the icon “ ” from your windows desktop, the following screen will display. This Management Utility consists of a four property tabs, “Status”, “Network”, “Advanced” and “System”. 4. 1 Status The Status tab shows information of the powerline adapter connected to the current computer where the Management Utility is running. On this page, you can also set its network name. 13 TL-PA551 AV500+ Powerline Adapter with AC Pass Through MAC Address: Displays the MAC address of the powerline adapter connected to the current computer where this management utility is running. Network Name: Displays the network name of the current network or you can give a name for the network in which the powerline adapter is. Use Default (HomePlugAV): Check the box before this item to use the default network name. Every powerline adapter has its own password by default, which can be also found on the back of the adapter. 4. 1. 1 Set Local Device’s Network Name To set the local device’s network name, please take the following steps: (1) Click Status tab to display the Status tab window. Or you can check the Use Default (HomePlugAV) to use the default name as the network name. (3) Click the Apply button to make the settings take effect. 4. 2 Network The Network tab window shows information of all the powerline adapters found on the current logical network. Furthermore, here you can change the Name of the listed powerline adapters as well as add 14 TL-PA551 another device to the current network. AV500+ Powerline Adapter with AC Pass Through Type: Displays the type of the remote device found in the network. You can change its name following two steps: select the desired adapter and click the Modify button. MAC Address: Displays the MAC address of the remote device found in the network. [. . . ] Press the Pair button of Powerline adapter A for one second, the Power LED will start flashing. Press the Pair button of Powerline adapter B for one second, the Power LED will start flashing. (This must be done within 120 seconds after pressing the pair button of powerline adapter A. ) Step 3. Wait for about 60 seconds while your Powerline adapter A and B are connecting. [. . . ]