User manual

1. introduction

Congratulations on your purchase of the INTELLINET NETWORK SOLUTIONS

HomePlug Turbo Ethernet Bridge, Model 502641. The bridge will allow you to

network better than ever by letting you turn the existing AC power lines in your

home or ofﬁce into a high-speed network. Now you don’t have to drill through

the walls or climb through the attic or cellar to install network cables. Just use the

wires that already run through the building.

What Does All This Mean?

Networks are useful tools for sharing computer resources. You can access one

printer from different computers and access data located on another computer’s

hard drive. Networks are even used for playing multiplayer video games. So

networks are not only useful in homes and ofﬁces, they can also be fun!

The HomePlug Turbo Ethernet Bridge interfaces Ethernet devices to the

HomePlug network standard. Just plug the bridge into the wall, connect your

Ethernet-equipped device to the bridge using the included network cable,

and you’ve turned your whole house into a network infrastructure. Attach more

computers to the network simply by plugging them into the wall anywhere in

the house and using more bridges.

Once your computers are connected to the network, they can share resources such

as printers and storage space, plus all kinds of ﬁles: music, digital pictures and

documents. With up to 85 Mbps data rates, you can play head-to-head

network computer games, too. And if you use a HomePlug Turbo Ethernet Bridge

to interface broadband routers from your cable or DSL Internet connection to your

network, you’ll be able to get to the Internet from any computer in the house.

2. planning your network

With HomePlug devices, a computer network

can be created using home power lines. The

bridge connects an Ethernet-enabled computer

to an AC power line network.

The bridge is also ideal for any user who

already has a router and wants to share high-

speed Internet access across the AC power line

network. Connect the bridge to the router after you have

conﬁgured the bridge using the conﬁguration utility. Connect a straight-through

Category 5 Ethernet network cable to the uplink port of the router, or connect

a crossover Category 5 Ethernet network cable to a LAN port on the router.

INTRODUCTION / PLANNING YOUR NETWORK