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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter with AC Pass Through Rev: 1.0.0 1910010649[...]

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    COPYRIGHT & TRADEMARKS S pecifications are subject to change without notice. is a registered trademark of TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., L TD. Other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. No part of the specificat ions may be reproduced in any form or by any means or used to make any derivative [...]

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    TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., L TD DECLARA TION OF CONFORMITY For the following equipment: Product Description: A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through Model No.: TL-P A 551 T rademark: TP-LINK We declare under our own responsibilit y that the above pro ducts satisfy all the technical regulations applicable to the product within t he scope of C[...]

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    CONTENTS Package Contents ......................................................................................... 1 Conventions .................................................................................................. 1 Chapter 1 Introduction ................................................................................. 2 1.1 System R[...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 1 Package Contents The A V500+ Powerline Adapter with AC Pass Through package contains the following items: ¾ One A V500+ Powerline Adapter with AC Pass Through (There are two powerline adapters in St arte r Kit) ¾ One RJ-45 Cable (There are two RJ-45 Cables in S tarter Kit) ¾ One Quick I[...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 2 Chapter 1 Introduction This device is an A V500+ Powerline Adapter with AC Pass Through which transforms your house’s existing electrical wiring into a ubi quitous networking infrastructure. Simply plug this A V500+ Powerline Adapter with AC Pass Through into an ordinary AC power outlet [...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 3 between this product and the AC power source. 9. When plugging this product into a wall socket, make sure that the electric al 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 sh[...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 4 Item Statu s Indication On The adapter is on. Blinking The adapter is in power-saving mode or in pairing procedure. Power LED Off The adapter is off. Green Dat a rate is more than or equal to 80Mbps. Orange Data rate is between 48Mbps and 80Mbp s. Red Data rate is less than or equal to 48M[...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 5 Interface Description Ethernet Port It is a 10/100Mbps Ethernet port on the A V adapter for connecting it to the PC or the broadband dev ice with the network cable. Power Plug * A Power Plug connected to any 100V ~ 240V AC (50~60Hz) power socket Pair Button Pair buttons are used to secure [...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 6 Chapter 2 Connecting Mechanism 2.1 Introduction The Powerline Adapter supports up to 500Mbps data ra te. With this high speed connection rate, this Powerline Adapter allows you to set up a high speed home network b y using your home existing electrical wiring. Simply plug this Powerline Ad[...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 7 2.3 Hardware Connection – Computer For those computers you wish to be networked by Powerline Adapter , each of the computers must be properly connected with a Powerline Adapter through an Ethernet (RJ-45) cable. Following are the steps to properly connect the Powerline Ad apter to your c[...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 8 The hardware connection mec hanism is shown bel ow: ) Note: Where the MAINS plug or an appliance coupler is used as the disconnected device, the disconnect device shall remain readily operable. The id le wall socket s or electrical outlets in your ho usehold electrical circuit can be used [...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 9 Chapter 3 Installing Management Utility Please verify that no other Power line Adapter or any Encryption M anagement Utilities are installed before installing the provided software. If other Power line Utilities are installed, uninstall them and restart your personal computer before instal[...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 11[...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 12 S tep 3: Af ter the installation, a shortcut to the “Powerline Utility” application icon is provided on the windows desktop.[...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 13 Chapter 4 Using the Management Utility After you’d successfully installed the Powerline A dapter hardware and Managem ent Utility software, you can set up or configure the devic es according to your need. This Powerline Utility enables the users to i dentify powerline devices on the pow[...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 14 ¾ MAC Address: Displays the MAC address of the pow erline adapter connected to the current computer where this m anagement utility is running. ¾ Network Name: Displays the network name of the current net work or you can give a name for the network in which the powerline adapter is. By d[...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 15 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 rem ote device found i n the network. Y ou can change its name following two steps: select the desired adapter and click the Modify button. ¾ MAC[...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 16 (1) Select the desir ed 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 sett[...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 17 4.3 Advanced The third tab window labeled “ Advanced ” is for Quality of Service. With the prop er configuration, the limit bandwidth can be took full advantage. QoS requirem ents are dif f erent for various data types such as streaming video or music, voice and ra w data. T o provide[...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 18 4.4.1 Upgrade Firmware Click the Upgrade Firmware button to upgrade the version of t he firmware for the adapter and the following dialog will pop up. z NVM : None-volatile memory. It is us ed for upgrading the firmware. z PIB : Parameter Information Block. It contains configuration value[...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 19 ) Note: The parameter information of PIB will restore to the factory default s af ter resetting the PLC. T o upgrade the device's firmware, follow these instructions: 1. Download PIB file and firmware upgr ade file from the TP-LINK website ( www .tp-link.com ). 2. Enter the path name[...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 20 Chapter 5 Advanced Feat ure: How to Use the Pair Buttons 5.1 Pair (Secure with 128 bits-AES) The Homeplug A V standard uses 12 8-bit AES (Advanced Encryption S t andard) to safely transmit data between powerline adap ters. For the powerline adapter s to communicate with each other they al[...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 21 Join an existing secured Powerline A V Network: Powerline adapter A and Powerline adapter B form a HomeplugA V Network, Powerline adapter C wants to join this network. Ste p 1 . Press and hold the Pair button on Powerline adapter C for one second. Ste p 2 . Press and hold the Pair button [...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 22 Appendix A: T roubleshooting The Troubleshooting provides answers to comm on problems regardin g 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 out[...]

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    TL-P A551 A V500+ Powerline Adapter w ith AC Pass Through 23 Appendix B: S pecifications 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, 1 Integrated Electrical Socket [...]