TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter REV1.0.
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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 Package Contents ................................................................................................................. 1 Chapter 1 Introduction ......................................................................................................... 2 1.1 Conventions ................................................................................................................... 2 1.2 System Requirement ..................................................................................
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter Package Contents The AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter package contains the following items: ¾ One AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter (There are two AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapters in Starter Kit) ¾ One RJ45 Ethernet Cable (There are two RJ45 Ethernet Cables in Starter Kit) ¾ One Resource CD z This Guide z Management Utility ) Note: Make sure that the package contains the above items.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter Chapter 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of this outstanding Powerline Adapter. This device is an AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter which transforms your house’s existing electrical wiring into a ubiquitous networking infrastructure.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter 6. Do not block the ventilation slots of this product, for insufficient airflow may harm it. 7. Do not put anything on this product. 8. Plug this product directly into a wall socket (100–240V~). Do not use an extension cord between this product and the AC power source. 9. When plugging this product into a wall socket, make sure that the electrical socket is not damaged, and that there is no gas leakage. 10.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter 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 setup 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 rooms of your house.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter On Ethernet LED Blinking Off At least one Ethernet port is connected, but there is no data being transferred. At least one Ethernet port is transferring data. No Ethernet port is connected. 2.3 Physical Interface There are three types of physical interfaces on this Powerline Adapter.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter 2.4 Connection Instruction To ensure the optimum performance of the Powerline Adapter and significantly improve the transmission capacity of the network, we recommend that you comply with the following connection rule: y Plug the Powerline Adapter directly into a wall socket but not the multiple sockets. 2.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter 2.6 Hardware Connection – Internet This section describes how to connect the Powerline Adapter into your existing ADSL broadband connection via ADSL Ethernet port. Follow the procedures described below to connect the Powerline Adapter to your ADSL broadband connection: 1． Connect one end of the provided Ethernet (RJ45) cable to an Ethernet port of the Powerline Adapter.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter ) Note: Do not connect the Powerline adapter to an extension lead, power strip, extension cord, or surge protector as these may degrade the network performance.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini 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. If other Powerline Utilities are installed, uninstall them and restart your personal computer before installing this provided software. ) Note: To install PowerLine Utility, please make sure that WinPcap (version 4.1.2 or higher) has been installed in your computer.
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TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter Step 3: After the installation, a shortcut to the “Powerline Utility” application icon is provided on the windows desktop.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter 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.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter ¾ MAC Address: Displays the MAC address of the powerline adapter connected to the current computer where this management utility is running. ¾ 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. By default, the network name is HomePlugAV. ¾ Use Default (HomePlugAV): Check the box before this item to use the default network name.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter 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 another device to the current network. ¾ Type: Displays the type of the remote device found in the network. ¾ Name: Displays the name of the remote device found in the network.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter 4.2.1 Rename the Remote Device/Enter Password You can change the name of the remote adapter to an easy-to-remember one. Additionally, you can select the desired adapter and enter its password (Take note of the password format) so as to set the network name of this device on System configuration homepage.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini 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.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter ¾ Simple Application Mapping: The group allows you to choose what type of traffic with the highest user priority you will use your local HomePlug device for by pitching one of the following radios. Please select the radio type according to your demand. ¾ Advanced Priority Mapping: The group sets VLAN priority to CAP mapping and default priority. Note that in HomePlug, CAP 3 is the highest priority while CAP 0 is the lowest priority.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter 4.4.1 Upgrade Firmware Click the Upgrade Firmware button to upgrade the version of the firmware for the adapter and the following dialog will pop up. z z NVM: None-volatile memory. It is used for upgrading the firmware. PIB: Parameter Information Block. It contains configuration values that establish device network identity, general capabilities and operational modes.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter If you want to upgrade the version of firmware for the device, please select appropriate Firmware and PIB files together. New firmware versions and PIB files are posted at www.tp-link.com and can be downloaded for free. ) Note: The parameter information of PIB will restore to the factory defaults after resetting the PLC. To upgrade the device's firmware, follow these instructions: 1. Download PIB file and firmware upgrade file from the TP-LINK website (www.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini 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.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port 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 1 second. Step 2. Within 2 minutes, press and hold the Pair button on Powerline adapter A/B for 1 second. Step 3. Wait for about 60 seconds while your Powerline adapters are connecting.
TL-PA4030 AV500 3-port Mini Powerline Adapter Appendix A: Troubleshooting The Troubleshooting provides answers to common problems regarding the Powerline Adapter. 1. The Power LED does not light up. Ans. Check the following: 1. Make sure that the Powerline Adapter is properly plugged into a power outlet. 2. Make sure the power outlet is active (working) by plugging another electric device into it. 3. Re-plug the Powerline Adapter to the power outlet.
