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    E D I M A X H P - 8 5 0 1 Quick Installation G uide HP-8501 85Mbps Powerline Ethernet Bridge User ’ s Manual[...]

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    E D I M A X H P - 8 5 0 1 Quick Installat ion Guide 2 Index 1. Powerline Networ king Installation ........................................................................................... ............................. 0 1.1 Basic In stalla tion........................................................................................................[...]

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    E D I M A X H P - 8 5 0 1 Quick Installat ion Guide 3 Copyright © by Edimax T echnology Co, L TD. all rights re served. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, tran scribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer langu age, in any form or by any means, el ectronic, mechanical, magnetic, optica[...]

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    EDIMAX HP-8501 Quick Inst allation Guide 1. Powerline Networking Inst allation 1.1 Basic Installation[...]

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    EDIMAX HP-8501 Quick Inst allation Guide 1 1.2 Application Examples 1.2.1 Co nnecting on e computer to inter net via power outlet 1.2.2 C onnectin g game c onsole v ia power outl et[...]

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    EDIMAX HP-8501 Quick Inst allation Guide 2 1.2.3 C onnecting existed network env ironment to i nternet v ia power outlet[...]

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    EDIMAX HP-8501 Quick Inst allation Guide 3 1.3 Benefits ‧ Up to 85 Mbps data transfer rate over the household power circuit. ‧ Ranges of 2 00 meters. ‧ No new network cables needed for home ne tworking. ‧ Deliver the benefit s of Ether net without the expense of wiring. ‧ T ransfer large files betw een computers in sho rt time. ‧ High-s[...]

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    EDIMAX HP-8501 Quick Inst allation Guide 4 2. Network Utility for Powerline B ridge Note: The device is able to de tect other powerline devices which is on the same power circuit automatically. You only need to install.this utility program when you want to ena ble the encrypt function of Powerline Extender to secure your d ata, or you have proble m[...]

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    EDIMAX HP-8501 Quick Inst allation Guide 5 2.2 Windows Configuration Utility In order to run the utility, double-click the utility icon. Figure 2 shows the conte nt of main tab of the config urat ion utility. The following picture shows a Powerline Ethernet device connected as a local device and other Po werline Ethernet devices as remote de vices.[...]

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    EDIMAX HP-8501 Quick Inst allation Guide 6 Figure 3 : Main tab with local low-s peed Powerline Ethernet device 2.3 User Interfac e 2.3.1 The ‘Main’ T ab The Main tab provides a list of all Powe rline Ethernet devic es logically connected to the computer where the configuration utility is running. The top p a nel shows all local Powerline Ethern[...]

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    EDIMAX HP-8501 Quick Inst allation Guide 7 Figure 4: Multiple local devices found[...]

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    EDIMAX HP-8501 Quick Inst allation Guide 8 The lower panel displays all the Pow erline Ethernet devices , discovered on the current logical netw ork (remote devices). The number o f remote devices fou nd, the type o f logical network (Public or Priva te), and a message area that reports connectivity and scan status will be displayed above this pane[...]

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    EDIMAX HP-8501 Quick Inst allation Guide 9 The Add button is used to add a remote device to your netw ork that is not listed in the lowe r panel, for example, a device currently located on another logical network. Users will be prompted t o input the passwords for all devices they wish to manage a nd add them to the local logical network by clickin[...]

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    EDIMAX HP-8501 Quick Inst allation Guide 10 The Scan button is used to perform an search of the Powe rline Ethernet devices connec ted to the computer. By default, the utility will automa tically scan once every few secon ds and up dates the display. A typical screen after naming and su pplying pas swords mi ght appear a s in Figure 7 . Figure 7 : [...]

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    EDIMAX HP-8501 Quick Inst allation Guide 11 2.3.2 The ‘Privacy’ t ab The Privacy dialog screen provides a means fo r managing the local network and providing additional security. All Powerline Ethernet devic es come with a default lo gical net work (networ k name ), which is nor mally “HomePlug” . The Priv acy tab allows user to make the ne[...]

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    EDIMAX HP-8501 Quick Inst allation Guide 12 The Set Local De vice Only button is used to change the n etwork name (netwo rk password) for loca l devices only. After doing this, all the devices seen on the Main pa nel prior to this will no longer reachable or respond to your command, as t hey will be located n a different logical network hereaf ter.[...]

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    EDIMAX HP-8501 Quick Inst allation Guide 13 2.4 The ‘Diagnostics’ tab The Diagnostics tab shows system information and a history of all devices seen. It will be something like Figure 9 . The upper panel shows technical data conce rning software and hardware on the host computer used to communicate over Powerline Ethernet Network. It shall inclu[...]

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    EDIMAX HP-8501 Quick Inst allation Guide 14 The lower panel contains a hist ory of al l remote device s foun d by th e comp uter. Devi ce s ar e shown here regardless they are located on the same logi cal network or not. Devices that are active on the current logical network will show a transfer rate in the ‘Rate’ column. Fo r those devices whi[...]

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    EDIMAX HP-8501 Quick Inst allation Guide 15 2.4.1 The ‘About’ T ab This tab shows the software release date. Figure 10: About T ab 2.4.2 The ‘Preferences’ T ab The lower part of the panel may display options for user pr eferences (such as turning the au to-scan feature on or o ff) as shown Figure 10 listed above.[...]

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    EDIMAX HP-8501 Quick Inst allation Guide 16 Declar ation of C onform ity The following Equipment : Powerline Ethernet 8 5 Report No. : S940140 is herewith confirmed to comply with the re qui rements se t out in the Council Directive on the harmonization of the Laws of the Member S tates relating to electrical equipment designed for use within cert [...]