TL-PA511 AV500 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.
Important Safety Instructions 1. Do not open this product or attempt to service it; it may expose you to dangerous high voltage or other risks. 2. Do not operate this product near water. 3. Do not place or operate this product near a radiator or a heat register. 4. Do not expose this product to dampness, dust or corrosive liquids. 5. Do not connect this product or disconnect it from a wall socket during a lightning or a thunderstorm 6.
CONTENTS Chapter 1 Introduction ...........................................................................................................................1 1.1 LED Indicator..............................................................................................................................2 1.2 Physical Interface .......................................................................................................................3 Chapter 2 Connecting Mechanism....................................
TL-PA511 Chapter 1 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter Introduction This device is an AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter which transforms your house’s existing electrical wiring into a ubiquitous networking infrastructure. Simply plug this AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter into an ordinary AC power outlet which will easily extend your Cable/xDSL broadband connection or existing Ethernet (LAN) network to any other electrical outlet in any room of a house without the need of any new cabling.
TL-PA511 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter 1.1 LED Indicator The LED indicator displays information about the device’s status. Item Status On Power LED Powerline LED Ethernet LED Blinking Off Indication The adapter is on. The adapter is in power-saving mode. The adapter is off. Green Data rate is more than or equal to 80Mbps. Orange Data rate is between 48Mbps and 80Mbps. Red Data rate is less than or equal to 48Mbps.
TL-PA511 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter 1.2 Physical Interface There are four physical interfaces on this Mini Powerline Adapter. Power Plug Pair Button Ethernet Port Interface Description Ethernet Port A 10/100Mbps Ethernet port for connecting the adapter to the PC or the broadband device with a network cable. Power Plug* A Power Plug for connecting the adapter to a 100V ~ 240V (50~60Hz) AC power socket. Pair Button Pair buttons are used to secure a powerline network.
TL-PA511 Chapter 2 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter 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.
TL-PA511 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter The hardware connection mechanism is shown below: ) Note: Do not connect the Powerline adapter to any extension lead, power strip, extension cord or surge protector, as this may degrade the network performance. 2.4 Hardware Connection – Internet This section describes how to connect the Powerline Adapter into your existing ADSL broadband connection via ADSL Ethernet port.
TL-PA511 The hardware connection mechanism is shown below: 6 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter
TL-PA511 Chapter 3 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter 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: Please make sure that you have installed the WinPcap (the version of which should be beyond 4.1.
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TL-PA511 Step 3: AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter After the installation, a shortcut to the “TL-PA511 Powerline Utility” application icon is provided on the windows desktop.
TL-PA511 Chapter 4 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter 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 Adapter Configuration Utility enables the users to identify powerline devices on the powerline network, measure data rate performance, ensure privacy and perform diagnostics by setting user-defined secure powerline networks.
TL-PA511 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter ¾ 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 shown above the “Connect” button indicates that your PC is connected to the same device.
TL-PA511 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter ) Note: The parameter information of PIB will restore to the factory defaults after resetting the Powerline Adapter. To upgrade the device's firmware, follow these instructions: 1. Download PIB file and firmware upgrade file from TP-LINK website (http://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.
TL-PA511 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter 4.1.2 Enter Password To set or change your Powerline Adapter’s password, click and select the Powerline Adapter you wish to change from the list, then click on the “Enter Password” tab, and the following screen will display. Enter your Password (Take note of the password format) and click “OK” after setup. ) Note: The Powerline Adapter device must be present on the power line (plugged in) in order for the password to be confirmed and added to the network.
TL-PA511 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter 4.1.3 Add Device The following dialog box will pop up when clicking the “Add” button under the Main configuration homepage. The 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 added to the local network. Enter your Device Name and Password (Take note of the password format) and click “OK” after setup.
TL-PA511 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter 4.1.4 Reset This Management Utility allows you to reset the 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-PA511 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter ¾ Set Local Device Only: Click this tab to change the network name of the local Powerline Adapter device only. All 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-PA511 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter 4.3 QoS The third tabbed window, labeled “QoS” for Quality of Service, is shown in the following figure. 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”.
TL-PA511 AV500 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 required or print the saved text file as reference during a technical support conference. The Upper Panel shows the technical data concerning software and hardware present on the host computer which were used to communicate over Powerline Adapter on the Powerline network.
TL-PA511 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter ¾ Device Last known rate ¾ Device Last Known Network name ¾ Device last seen date on the network The diagnostics information displayed can be saved to a text file for later use, or can be printed as a reference for a technical support call. Powerline Adapter devices, which are not part of the network anymore, can be deleted using the delete button. A confirmation dialog window will pop up if we try to delete a device whose password has been entered. 4.
TL-PA511 Chapter 5 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter Advanced Feature: How to Use the Pair 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-PA511 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter Join an existing secured 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 one second. Step 2. Press and hold the Pair button on Powerline adapter A/B for one second. (This step must be taken within 120 seconds after step 1 is finished.) Step 3.
TL-PA511 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter Appendix A: Troubleshooting Guide The Troubleshooting Guide provides answers to common problems regarding the Powerline Adapter. 1. The Power LED does not light up. Ans. Check the following: a) Make sure that the 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 Powerline Adapter to the power outlet again.
TL-PA511 AV500 Mini Powerline Adapter Appendix B: Specifications General Standards HomePlug AV, IEEE802.3, IEEE802.3u Modulation Technology OFDM, 1024/256/64/16/8-QAM, QPSK, BPSK and ROBO Data Rate 500Mbps Range 300meters in house LEDs Power, Powerline, Ethernet Interface 1 Ethernet LAN Port Encryption 128-bit AES Power Consumption 6W Physical and Environment Dimensions (L×W×H) 4.1x2.3x1.6 inch (105×58×40 mm) (exclude power plug) 4.1x2.3x3.
