TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Rev: 1.0.
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FCC STATEMENT This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. 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.
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CONTENTS Chapter 1 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 Chapter 2 Connecting Mechanism .................................................................................. 2 2.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................. 2 2.2 LED Indicator .......................................................................................................... 2 2.
TL-PA211 Chapter 1 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of this outstanding Mini Powerline Adapter. This device is an AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter which transforms your house‟s existing electrical wiring into an ubiquitous networking infrastructure.
TL-PA211 Chapter 2 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Connecting Mechanism 2.1 Introduction The Mini Powerline Adapter supports up to 200Mbps data rate. With this high speed connection rate, this Mini Powerline Adapter allows you to setup a high speed home network by using your home existing electrical wiring. Simply plug this Mini 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 rooms of your house.
TL-PA211 On Flashing Ethernet LED AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter The Adapter has connected to a Powerline network. The Adapter is transmitting or receiving data. Off The Ethernet port is not connected to a device or the device is power off. On The Ethernet port is linked, but there is no activity. Flashing Data is being transmitted through the Ethernet port Note: 5 minutes later since the device connected to the Homeplug is powered off, the Homeplug will switch to Power-saving Mode automatically.
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Use the Push buttons 2.4 Hardware Connection – Computer For those computers you wish to be networked by Mini Powerline Adapter, each of the computers must be properly connected with a Mini Powerline Adapter through an Ethernet (RJ-45) cable. Following are the steps to properly connect the Mini Powerline Adapter to your computer: 1． Connect the provided Ethernet (RJ-45) cable to the Mini Powerline Adapter‟s Ethernet port.
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter The hardware connection mechanism is shown below: Note: Do not connect the Powerline adapter to an extension lead, power strip, extension cord, surge protector as this may degrade the network performance.
TL-PA211 Chapter 3 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Installing Management Utility Please verify that no other Mini 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: Please make sure that you have installed the WinPcap (the version of which should be beyond 4.1.
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TL-PA211 Step 2: AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter After the installation, a shortcut to the “TL-PA211 Powerline Utility” application icon is provided on the windows desktop.
TL-PA211 Chapter 4 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Using The Management Utility After you‟d successfully installed the Mini Powerline Adapter hardware and Management Utility software, you can setup or configure the devices according to your need. This Mini Powerline Adapter Configuration Utility enables the users to identify powerline devices on the powerline network, measures data rate performance, ensures privacy and performs diagnostics by setting user defined secure powerline networks.
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Local Device(s) on your computer: This shows all local Powerline Ethernet Adapter found connected to the computer‟s LAN card. In most cases, only one device will display in this panel. Click and select the local device shown on the screen then click “Connect” tab to manage the Powerline Ethernet Adapter. The status message will be shown above the “Connect” button indicates that your PC is connected to the same device.
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter To upgrade the device's firmware, follow these instructions: 1. Download PIB file and firmware upgrade file from the TP-LINK website (www.tp-link.com). 2. Enter the path name or click Browse… to select the downloaded files on the computer into the corresponding blanks. 3. Click the OK button. Note: Do not turn off the device while the firmware is being upgraded. The device will reboot after the Upgrading has been finished.
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter 4.1.2 Enter Password To set or change your Mini Powerline Adapter‟s password, click and select the Mini Powerline Adapter you wish to change from the list, then click on the “Enter Password” tab, the following screen display. Enter your Password (Please note the format, enter it uppercase) and click “OK” after setup.
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter 4.1.3 Add Device The following dialog box pop-up when clicking the “Add” button under Main configuration homepage. The dialog box allows you to enter both the selected device‟s name and password. Noted that the Mini Powerline Adapter must be present on the power grid in order to activate the set password and added to the local network. Enter your Device Name and Password (Take note to the password format) and click “OK” after setup.
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter 4.1.4 Reset This Management Utility allows you to reset the Mini Powerline Adapter to its default settings by clicking the Reset button on the Main page. 4.2 Privacy The Privacy configuration page provides a means for managing the local network and providing additional security for the logical network and also to select the devices that has to be included in the network.
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Set Local Device Only: Click this tab to change the network name of the local Mini Powerline Adapter device only. All Mini Powerline Adapter devices seen on the Main configuration homepage prior to this will be no longer present in the new network, effectively making the local devices not to communicate to the devices which were in the old logical network.
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter 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‟. Homeplug AV powerline allows for 4 levels of Channel Access Priority CAP(0-3)).
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter The Diagnostics information displayed can be saved to a text file. One can email the saved text file to the local supplier when there‟s technical support require or print the saved text file as reference during a technical support conference. The Upper Panel shows technical data concerning software and hardware present on the host computer which were used to communicate over Mini Powerline Adapter on the Powerline network.
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Device Last known rate Device Last Known Network name Date device last seen on the network The diagnostics information displayed may be saved to a text file for later use, or can be printed for reference for a technical support call. Mini Powerline Adapter devices, which are not part of the network anymore, can be deleted using the delete button. A dialog window pops up with a confirmation message if we try to delete a device whose password has been entered. 4.
TL-PA211 Chapter 5 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Advance Feature: How to Use the Push buttons 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.
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Join an existing Powerline AV Network: Powerline adapter A and Powerline adapter B form a HomeplugAV Network, Powerline adapter C wants to join this network. Step 1. Press and hold the Pair button on Powerline adapter C for 3 to 8 seconds. Step 2. Press and hold the Pair button on Powerline adapter A/B for 3 to 8 seconds. (This step must be taken within 120 seconds after step 1 is finished.) Step 3.
TL-PA211 Chapter 6 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Appendix A: Troubleshooting Guide The Troubleshooting Guide provides answers to common problems regarding the Mini Powerline Adapter. 1. The Power LED does not light up. Ans. Check the following: a) Make sure that the Mini Powerline Adapter is properly plugged into a power outlet. b) Make sure the power outlet is active (working) by plugging another electric device into it. c) Re-plug the Mini Powerline Adapter to the power outlet again.
