Devolo dLAN 500 AV Wireless+, User Manual

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devolo dLAN 500 AV W
4 dLAN network
Before you can use the dLAN 500 AV W in your
dLAN network, first you have to connect it to other
dLAN AV devices as a home network. Two specific
pieces of information are especially important for this:
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Shared use of a dLAN password results in a delim-
ited dLAN network.
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Shared use of the dLAN password serves as access
control to the dLAN network as well as the
encryption, and thereby the interception protec-
tion, of the transmitted data.
The dLAN password can be set in different ways:
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Automatically using the encryption button (see
4.1 dLAN network encryption at the touch
of a button
)
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Manually using the dLAN Cockpit program (see
4.3 dLAN Cockpit
) or
dLAN Cockpit App
pro-
gram (see 4.2 dLAN Cockpit App) .
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By entering the dLAN password in the configu-
ration interface of the adapter (see 5 Network
configuration ).
4.1 dLAN network encryption at
the touch of a button
To encrypt a dLAN network, in which all associated de-
vices are equipped with an encryption button, simply
press the encryption button located on the device.
Pressing this button will encrypt your dLAN network
with a randomly generated password.
The following section contains exact instructions on
the basis of possible network scenarios:
Fig. 4