TL-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit 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 Conventions ............................................................................................................... 1 Chapter 1 Introduction......................................................................................... 2 1.1 System Requirement .....................................................................................2 1.2 Important Safety Instructions .
TL-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter Package Contents The AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter package contains the following items: ¾ One AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter (There are two powerline adapters in Starter Kit) ¾ One RJ45 Cable (There are two RJ45 Cables in Starter Kit) ¾ One Quick Installation Guide ¾ One Resource CD (Management Utility and User Guide) ) Note: Make sure that the package contains the above items.
TL-PA6010 Chapter 1 AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter Introduction This device is an AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter which transforms your house’s existing electrical wiring into a ubiquitous networking infrastructure. Simply plug this AV600 Gigabit 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-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter 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. Place the connecting cables properly so that people won’t stumble or walk on it. 11. This product should be operated from the type of power indicated on the marking label. If you are not sure of the type of power available, consult the qualified technician. 12.
TL-PA6010 Item Status On Power LED Blinking Indication The adapter is on. The adapter is in power-saving mode or in pairing procedure. Off The adapter is off. On The adapter is connected to a powerline network. Blinking Powerline LED Ethernet LED AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter The adapter is transferring data. Off The adapter isn’t connected to any powerline network or is in power-saving mode. On The Ethernet port is connected, but there is no data being transferred.
TL-PA6010 Pair Button AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter Pair buttons are used to secure a powerline network. To secure your network, please follow the steps below. Firstly, plug in a new adapter, and press its pair button for one second; then plug in another adapter and press its pair button for one second as well. The two buttons should be pressed within 2 minutes of each other. After that, wait about 60 seconds so that the two adapters can finish connecting.
TL-PA6010 Chapter 2 AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter Connecting Mechanism 2.1 Introduction The Powerline Adapter supports up to 600Mbps 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-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit 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-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter 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.
TL-PA6010 Chapter 3 AV600 Gigabit 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: To install PowerLine Utility, please make sure WinPcap (version 4.1.2 or higher) has been installed in your computer.
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TL-PA6010 Step 3: AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter After the installation, a shortcut to the “PowerLine Utility” application icon is provided on the windows desktop.
TL-PA6010 Chapter 4 AV600 Gigabit 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 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-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit 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-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit 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-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter network name of this device on System configuration homepage. To change the name of the remote adapter or enter its password, please follow the steps below: (1) Select the desired device and click the Modify button to display the following dialog. (2) Enter a new name for the selected adapter and enter its password (Take note of the password format). The password can be found on the back of adapter. (3) Click the Save button to make the settings effective.
TL-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit 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-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit 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-PA6010 z z AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter 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. 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.
TL-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter the same logical network. A dialog window will appear to report the success of this operation. All Powerline devices are shipped using a default logical network (network name), which is normally “HomePlugAV”. To set all devices’ network name, please type the name in the field and click the Set Network Name button to apply the setting.
TL-PA6010 Chapter 5 AV600 Gigabit Powerline Adapter 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-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit 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-PA6010 AV600 Gigabit 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: 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.
