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PowerGrid-9171n
Powerline Ethernet Adapter

User Manual

Version A2.0, August 25, 2015

261072-029

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Page 1: ...PowerGrid 9171n Powerline Ethernet Adapter User Manual Version A2 0 August 25 2015 261072 029 ...

Page 2: ...cked Avoid using a telephone other than a cordless type during an electrical storm There may be a remote risk of electric shock from lightening Also do not use the telephone to report a gas leak in the vicinity of the leak WARNING Disconnect the PLC from the power source before servicing Copyright Copyright 2014 Comtrend Corporation All rights reserved The information contained herein is proprieta...

Page 3: ...te The cardboard box the plastic contained in the packaging and the parts that make up this PLC can be recycled in accordance with regionally established regulations Never dispose of this electronic equipment along with your household waste you may be subject to penalties or sanctions under the law Instead please be responsible and ask for disposal instructions from your local government ...

Page 4: ... HW information 17 6 2 SW information 18 Chapter 7 Multicast Interface 19 7 1 MCAST Configuration 19 Chapter 8 QoS menu 20 8 1 QoS Configuration 20 Chapter 9 VLAN Interface 23 9 1 VLAN Configuration 23 Chapter 10 G hn spectrum Interface 24 10 1 Notches 24 Chapter 11 Log file Interface 25 11 1 Log File 25 Chapter 12 Advanced Interface 26 Chapter 13 WiFi Log In Procedure 27 13 1 Configure STATIC IP ...

Page 5: ...17 2 Statistics 48 17 3 Time Zone Setting 49 17 4 Upgrade Firmware 50 17 5 Save Reload Settings 51 17 6 TR 069 Configuration 52 17 7 Password Setup 54 Chapter 18 Logout 55 ...

Page 6: ... parameters domain name and encryption key Blink Node is in configuration mode able to exchange network keys COVERAGE Green On The current connection estimated throughput is greater than 40 Mbps Orange On The current connection estimated throughput is greater than 20 Mbps and less than 40 Mbps Red On The current connection estimated throughput is between 1 and 20 Mbps per second Off No PLC connect...

Page 7: ...l Item Name Description Config Press more than 2 seconds Security LED starts slow blinking and released the One Button Security Setup OBUS procedure is started and configuration period is open Press more than 5 seconds Security LED starts quick blinking and released security settings are set to default values Press more than 10 seconds Security LED switches off and released a factory reset is perf...

Page 8: ... The speed is measured in Megabits Per Second Mbps Color Information RED The current connection has standard quality normal Internet activities ex 20Mbps are possible but the Powerline is unable to transmit either a Standard Movie or High Definition HD Movie ORANGE The current connection has good quality and Internet activities ex greater than 20Mbps and less than 40Mbps to transmit Standard Movie...

Page 9: ...mated throughput is greater than 20 Mbps but less than 40 Mbps The PLC channel is able to transmit an SDTV channel but not two SDTV channels simultaneously or one HDTV channel The COVERAGE LED will be ORANGE as shown in the following figure CASE 3 Estimated throughput is greater than 10 Mbps The PLC channel is able to play at least two SDTV channels or 1 HDTV The COVERAGE LED will be GREEN as show...

Page 10: ...ed level of the PLC link receiving from G hn adapter 1 CASE 2 The COVERAGE LED in G hn adapter 1 will show the estimated level of the PLC link from which it is receiving the most amount of traffic at any given time For example if G hn adapter 1 is receiving traffic at 50Mbps from G hn adapter 2 and is receiving 25Mbps from G hn adapter 3 the COVERAGE LED will show the level with reference to the G...

Page 11: ...ating systems OS Check your OS support documentation for further details STEP 1 From the Network Connections window open Local Area Connection You may also access this screen by double clicking the Local Area Connection icon on your taskbar Click the Properties button STEP 2 Select Internet Protocol TCP IP and click the Properties button STEP 3 Change the IP address to the domain of 10 10 1 x 69 x...

Page 12: ...he default IP address for the device in the Web address field For example if the default IP address is 10 10 1 69 type http 10 10 1 69 STEP 2 A dialog box will appear such as the one below Input the default Authentication Password Authentication Password paterna Click OK to continue Note The Factory Reset password is betera ...

Page 13: ...nodes in the network Force node Type force the modem to have a particular role END POINT or DOMAIN MASTER G hn profile of all nodes in the network selecting which G hn profile must be applied to the network PLC 50MHz PLC 50MHz with MIMO PLC 100MHz COAX 100MHz and PHONE 100MHz ...

Page 14: ...e DOD number from 1 to 15 to use a different preamble seed than the default 0 3 3 Encryption Configuration via WEB UI Pairing Password used for authentication Write a custom password to manually create a secure domain Available Connections In this tab table all the available G hn connections are presented Remote node DID and MAC address transmission and reception physical speeds ...

Page 15: ... be configured fill these fields in In the case of choosing Yes i e DHCP they will be filled automatically when configuration is received from the DHCP server IPv6 subsection DCHPv6 enabled to enable the IPv6 DHCP configuration or choose not to DHCPv6 Address to read the node s DHCPv6 address in case the DHCPv6 is enabled IPv6 Link Local Address to read the node s Link Local address Manual IPv6 Ma...

Page 16: ...he coverage Info of the Ethernet interface including Interface Speed Duplex Interface Type Mode Internal PHY Link Powersaving Ethernet powersaving can be disabled enabled by Ethernet link or enabled by Ethernet activity idle timer can be configured as well ...

Page 17: ...Interface 6 1 HW information In this tab basic information such as MAC Address Serial Number HW Product and Revision ASIC and Chipset of the selected node is shown Other information about the Ethernet port is also shown ...

Page 18: ...from the default paterna to another decided by the user Software update Current loaded firmware and API version are shown SW can be upgraded via FTP or TFTP L2 is proprietary and is reserved for future use Additionally HTTP protocol can be also used for SW upgrade Usually a reboot should be performed afterwards to make sure the changes are effective ...

Page 19: ...eport allowed set to NO for enabling reports dropping until the video source is detected this is a recommended setting when IGMP MLD is enabled Set to YES for broadcasting reports until the video source is detected this implies the multicast video stream is sent as broadcast and it is the recommended state when IGMP MLD is disabled IGMP Multicast ranges configuration 4 multicast IP address ranges ...

Page 20: ...fer SW for instance the same field will be in a different position if normal Ethernet frames or 802 1Q tagged frames exist Packet detection 1 first packet detection rule can be configured offset bitmask and pattern Packets which accomplish it will be sent to the classification module Packet detection 2 if second packet detection is also enabled both first and second detection criteria must be acco...

Page 21: ... Table III 1 for four priority queues PCP Priority Acronym Traffic Types 1 0 Third BK Background 0 1 lowest BE Best Effort 2 2 lowest EE Excellent Effort 3 3 Third CA Critical Applications 4 4 second VI Video 100 ms latency and jitter 5 5 second VO Voice 10 ms latency and jitter 6 6 highest IC Internetwork Control 7 7 highest NC Network Control In summary the sequence of priority queue 7 6 5 4 3 0...

Page 22: ...e Offset value will increase by two from 7 9 in the rule 1 8 boxes In this case you can reset the factory defaults in the Advanced menu to recall Factory Resets if necessary If you want to correct this inaccuracy manually change the values in the Offset boxes to the number 5 Upon clicking the OK button the Offset values will all display 7 respectively ...

Page 23: ...can be also enabled or disabled Enable VLAN Configuration Select No from the drop down menu to disable completely the VLAN functionality removing all tags Remove VLAN tag at egress Select Yes from the drop down menu for the port that you want to remove the VLAN tag from Ingress Egress tag A tag value from 1 to 4095 per interface can be added in this section Set value to 0 for no tagging ...

Page 24: ... be neither removed nor modified The next 40 notches Vendor are defined by the vendor using SDK and they are also RO The last 10 notches User are R W and they can be added removed by user using this tool To add new notches the user should fill the Add a new User Notch fields setting Start and Stop frequencies in KHz and depth in dB of notch and then press the Add button They will be added in first...

Page 25: ...tionality in the node and set to NO for disabling it Data Capture Interval sets the interval of time in seconds to capture data FTP Server URL configures the url for the remote FTP server where the files will be uploaded FTP Server Login configures the user for the FTP server FTP Server Password configures the password for the FTP server Upload to Server Interval sets the interval of time in minut...

Page 26: ...is tab the broadcast suppression feature can be managed Broadcast traffic higher than the selected value will be dropped Hardware Reset Click on this button to perform a reboot in the node Factory reset Click the OK button to order a factory reset of the node ...

Page 27: ...operating systems OS Check your OS support documentation for further details STEP 1 From the Network Connections window open Local Area Connection You may also access this screen by double clicking the Local Area Connection icon on your taskbar Click the Properties button STEP 2 Select Internet Protocol TCP IP and click the Properties button STEP 3 Change the IP address to the domain of 192 168 0 ...

Page 28: ...owser and enter the default IP address for the device in the Web address field For example if the default IP address is 192 168 0 9 type http 192 168 0 9 STEP 2 A dialog box will appear such as the one below Input the default Authentication Password Authentication Username root Authentication Password 12e45 ...

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Page 30: ...nfigure the parameters for wireless LAN clients which may connect to your Access Point Here you may change wireless encryption settings as well as wireless network parameters Disable Wireless LAN Interface Select the check box to disable the wireless LAN interface ...

Page 31: ...ct SSID to access the WLAN If the SSID does not match that user will not be granted access Channel Width Select wireless channel width bandwidth taken by wireless signals of this access point It s suggested to select Auto 20 40MHz Do not change to 20 MHz unless you know what it is Control Sideband Select Upper or Lower sideband when in 40MHz mode Channel Number Drop down menu that allows selection...

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Page 33: ...fy default value if you don t know what it is default value is 2346 RTS Threshold Set the RTS threshold of wireless radio Do not modify default value if you don t know what it is default value is 2347 Beacon Interval Set the beacon interval of wireless radio Do not modify default value if you don t know what it is default value is 100 Preamble Type Set the type of preamble of wireless radio Do not...

Page 34: ...lick to enable or disable the 20 40MHz Coexist function TX Beamforming Click to enable or disable the TX Beamforming function Multicast to Unicast Click to enable or disable the multicast to unicast conversion function RF Output Power You can set the output power of wireless radio Unless you re using this wireless power line access point in a really big space you may not have to set output power t...

Page 35: ...ngs to configure Encryption Select an encryption type from the drop down menu and refer to the appropriate section below for more details Select Disable to disable wireless encryption for the network This is not recommended anyone within range can connect to the device s SSID Default security settings are SSID Telecable_GhN Encryption Type WPA2 AES Personal Pre Shared Key Format Passphrase Pre Sha...

Page 36: ...ress of the RADIUS authentication server here RADIUS Server Port Input the port number of the RADIUS authentication server here Default value is 1812 RADIUS Server Password Input the password of the RADIUS authentication server here Click the Apply Changes button to display the following Your changes have been saved The router must be rebooted for the changes to take effect You can reboot now or y...

Page 37: ... Key Length Select 64 bit or 128 bit key length 128 bit is safer than 64 bit but will reduce some data transfer performance Key Format Select ASCII or Hex key format The key length will also be displayed here ASCII and Hex keys vary in length depending on Key Length above Encryption Key Enter WEP key here the number of characters must be the same as the number displayed in the Key Format field For...

Page 38: ...PA2 or WPA Mixed Personal Pre Shared Key WPA pre shared key is the recommended and most secure encryption type Authentication Mode Select Personal Pre Shared Key WPA Cipher Suite WPA AES is selected by default and is the only option Pre shared Key Format Select the pre shared key format from Passphrase 8 to 63 alphanumerical characters or Hex 64 characters 0 to 9 and a to f ...

Page 39: ... s best to use a complex hard to guess key TKIP supports a maximum data rate of 54Mbps Click the Apply Changes button to display the following Your changes have been saved The router must be rebooted for the changes to take effect You can reboot now or you can continue to make other changes and reboot later ...

Page 40: ...r WPA Mixed AES is safer than TKIP but not supported by all wireless clients WPA2 AES or WPA2 is recommended if supported by your wireless client Mixed is recommended if your client does not support AES RADIUS Server IP address Enter the IP address of the RADIUS authentication server here RADIUS Server Port Enter the port number of the RADIUS authentication server here Default value is 1812 RADIUS...

Page 41: ...Your changes have been saved The router must be rebooted for the changes to take effect You can reboot now or you can continue to make other changes and reboot later ...

Page 42: ...t When Deny Listed is selected these wireless clients on the list will not be able to connect the Access Point MAC Address Input a MAC address permitted to connect to the extender Only enter characters 0 to 9 or a to f Comment Enter an optional comment associated with the specified MAC address for reference identification consisting of up to 16 alphanumerical characters ...

Page 43: ... the Site Survey to display the following SSID The SSID that the wireless client connected to BSSID The BSSID that the wireless client connected to Channel The connected channel number that the wireless client used to connect Type PG 9171n s type that the wireless client is connected to Encrypt The encryption the connection is using Signal The strength of the signal from the wireless client ...

Page 44: ...o the Access Point in a minute without any hassle Click the Start PBC button to start the Push Button style WPS setup procedure The Pg 9171n will wait for WPS requests from another wireless device for 2 minutes The WPS LED on the PG 9171n will be blinking for 2 minutes when this PG 9171n is waiting for an incoming WPS request Click the Stop WSC button to cancel deactivate the WPS setup procedure ...

Page 45: ...er and will replace the default IP address 192 168 0 9 Subnet Mask Input the subnet mask of the new IP address Default Gateway Input the network s gateway IP address DNS Input the Domain Name Server s IP address DHCP Selecting Enable means this device will use DHCP client to get IP address Selecting Disabled means this device will use the IP address input in this page Click the Apply Changes butto...

Page 46: ...Pv6 is disabled Configure DHCPv6 or Static addressing depending on your network IP Address Specify an IPv6 address and Prefix Length here Default Gateway Input the network s gateway IPv6 address and Prefix Length DNS Input the Domain Name Server s IPv6 address and Prefix Length Click the Apply Changes button to restart the system and make the changes take effect Click the Reset button to clear and...

Page 47: ...Chapter 17 Management 17 1 Status This page shows the current status and some basic settings of the device ...

Page 48: ...17 2 Statistics This page shows the packet counters for transmission and reception regarding to wireless and Ethernet networks Click the Refresh button to get the latest statistics ...

Page 49: ...me zone Automatically Adjust Daylight Saving Tick the box if appropriate for your region Enable NTP client update Enable the NTP function here date and time can be synchronized with a time server Click the Apply Change button to save the changes Click the Reset button to clear or reset the Web page Click the Refresh button to reload the data on the Web page ...

Page 50: ...he device during the upload because it may crash the system STEP 1 Obtain an updated software image file from your ISP STEP 2 Enter the path and filename of the firmware image file in the Select File field or click the Browse button to locate the image file STEP 3 Click the Upload button once to upload and install the file ...

Page 51: ...ich was saved previously Besides you could reset the current configuration to factory default Click the Save button to save current settings to PC Click the Browse button to locate the desired file Upload update the device s setting from PC s file Click the Reset button to reset the PG 9171n to factory default settings ...

Page 52: ...figuration This page is used to configure the TR 069 protocol settings including the settings for the ACS s parameters This page is used to configure the TR 069 Here you may change the setting for the ACS s parameters ...

Page 53: ...to authenticate the CPE when making a connection to the ACS using the CPE WAN Management Protocol This password is used only for HTTP based authentication of the CPE Periodic Inform Enable If enabled CPE MUST periodically send CPE information to the ACS using the Inform method call Periodic Inform Interval The duration in seconds of the interval for which the CPE MUST attempt to connect with the A...

Page 54: ...t the account to access the web server of Access Point Empty user name and password will disable the protection Input the User Name Then input the New Password and Confirm the New Password Click the Apply Changes button to save the new password ...

Page 55: ...Chapter 18 Logout This page is used to logout from PG 9171n Click the Apply Change button to logout from the PG 9171n ...

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