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User’s Manual

HP-8501APg

Powerline 85Mbps

Wireless-G Access Point

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Page 1: ...User s Manual HP 8501APg Powerline 85Mbps Wireless G Access Point ...

Page 2: ...rface Configuration 13 3 4 1 Wireless Settings 14 3 4 2 Wireless Security 15 3 4 3 Advanced Wireless Settings 16 3 4 4 MAC based Wireless Access Control 17 3 5 1 System Setup 18 3 6 1 TCP IP Settings for Windows Operating System 19 Chapter 4 Network Utility for PowerLine Access Point 28 4 1 Software Setup 28 4 1 1 Installation 28 4 2 Windows Configuration Utility 29 4 3 User Interface 30 4 3 1 The...

Page 3: ...es harm to the telephone network the telephone company may discontinue your service temporarily If possible they will notify you in advance But if advance notice isn t practical you will be notified as soon as possible You will be advised of your right to file a complaint with the FCC The telephone company may make changes in its facilities equipment operations or procedures that could affect the ...

Page 4: ...at shielded interface cables be used with your modem If interference does occur we suggest the following measures be taken to rectify the problem 1 Move the receiving antenna 2 Move the modem away from the radio or TV 3 Plug the modem into a different electrical outlet 4 Discuss the problem with a qualified radio TV technician CAUTION Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party re...

Page 5: ...ent from those shown in this QIG For more detailed information about this product please refer to the User s Manual on the CD ROM The software and specifications subject to change without notice Please visit our web site www edimax com for the update All right reserved including all brand and product names mentioned in this manual are trademarks and or registeredtrademarks of their respective hold...

Page 6: ... 802 11g Wireless Ethernet standards z QoS Prioritized random access contention free access and segment bursting CSMA CA with prioritization and ARQ for reliable delivery of Ethernet packets via Packet Encapsulation Security Features z Powerline Modulation OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing with patented signal processing techniques for high data reliability in noisy media conditions ...

Page 7: ...irmware upgrade Password protected access control 1 3 System Requirements 1 Personal computer PC 2 Pentium II 233 MHz processor or above 3 32 MB of RAM or more 4 At least 20 MB of free disk space 5 One Ethernet Interface on PC 6 Internet Browser ...

Page 8: ...ontents Check the package of this product carefully make sure that every item listed below is not missing If any of the items are missing or damaged contact your local distributor The contents of your carton may vary depending on your service provider Contents description 1 Powerline Access Point 2 Powerline Access Point Installation and Operation Guide you are reading now 3 Power Cord 4 Ethernet ...

Page 9: ...ning well PL Flashing Other PowerLine devices detected ON Ethernet link is present at this port Flashing TX or RX activity LAN 1 4 OFF Ethernet link is not present at this port ON Wireless function on Flashing Data transferring between this Wireless Access Point and wireless clients WLAN OFF Wireless function off 2 3 Rear Ports ...

Page 10: ...ponding port 1 2 3 or 4 While data is sending or receiving by that port corresponding LED will be flashing Antenna Two kinds of antenna connecter available fixed or R SMA connecter 2 4 Reset Switch Connector Description Reset Switch Press and hold this button for few seconds to clear all settings of this Wireless Access Point ...

Page 11: ...connect other wired Ethernet devices to LAN ports of Wireless Access Point at this time too However before the configuration process of Wireless Access Point is completed wireless devices cannot connect to this Wireless Access Point 3 3 Configuring Powerline Access Point with Web Browser It is highly recommended to change the default administrator password to avoid unauthorized access to your Wire...

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Page 13: ...12 You can use Quick Setup to setup the device and choose the connection method you want to use ...

Page 14: ...13 3 3 1 LAN Interface Configuration Please input the IP address and network mask of LAN interface here ...

Page 15: ...y which access point they should connect You can change SSID here and all your wireless devices should set to the same SSID Channel The radio channel number that wireless network uses All your wireless devices should set to the same channel If you select Auto Wireless Access Point will choose a channel automatically and your wireless clients should set channel to Auto too In most cases you don t h...

Page 16: ...15 3 4 2 Wireless Security You can select the wireless authentication method here Available options are Open System Shared Key WPA PSK WPA2 PSK and WPA PSK WPA2 PSK ...

Page 17: ...ttings here In most cases you don t have to change these settings and you can use default settings without any problem Only change these settings when you understand the function of these functions PLEASE NOTE IMPRPOER VALUE FOR THESE SETTINGS COULD CAUSE PERFORMANCE PROBLEM ...

Page 18: ...lients with certain MAC address to connect to Wireless Access Point Please select a MAC ACL mode you wish to use Disable Allow or Reject and input MAC address es you wish to allow or reject in every index field An example of MAC address is aa bb cc dd ee ff or 1a 2b 3c 4d 5e 6f ...

Page 19: ...ate the firmware here Click browse to select firmware file you just downloaded and click Update to start update procedure DO NOT CLOSE WEB BROWSER WINDOW OR REMOVE NETWORK CONNECTION DURING UPDATE IF THE FIRMWARE UPDATE PROCESS FAILS WIRELESS ACCESS POINT MAY NOT BE ABLE TO FUNCTION AGAIN 3 Click Factory Default to restore all settings of Wireless Access Point to factory default settings 4 Click S...

Page 20: ...n then click OK The IP Configuration window will appear displaying your Ethernet Adapter Information Select your network adapter from the drop down menu If you can not see your network adapter in the drop down menu your adapter may not properly installed After selecting your adapter your IP Address subnet mask and default gateway setting will be displayed Click OK to close the IP Configuration win...

Page 21: ... command prompt type ipconfig It will return with your IP Address subnet mask and default gateway information Type exit to close the command prompt Please check the IP address of default gateway It should be the address of Wireless Access Point By default the IP address of Wireless Access Point is 192 168 2 1 ...

Page 22: ... click on the Network Neighborhood icon Win ME My Network Places and click Properties Highlight TCP IP and click the Properties button If you have more than 1 adapter then there will be a TCP IP Binding for each adapter Highlight TCP IP your network adapter and then click Properties ...

Page 23: ...ample If the Wireless Access Point s LAN IP Address is 192 168 2 1 make your IP Address 192 168 2 X where X is a value between 2 to 99 Make sure that the number you choose is not in use on the network Click Gateway tab Enter the LAN IP Address of your Wireless Access Point here 192 168 2 1 then click Add Click OK ...

Page 24: ...lick DNS Configuration tab Click Enable DNS Type in a Host can be anything like John or Apple For DNS server search order field enter the IP Address of your Wireless Access Point 192 168 2 1 then click Add ...

Page 25: ...24 Click OK once then click OK again in next dialogue box When you re prompted to reboot your computer click Yes After the computer is rebooted the computer will have a static private IP Address ...

Page 26: ...P Address in Windows 2000 Right click on My Network Places then click Properties Right click on the Local Area Connection which represents your network card and select Properties Highlight Internet Protocol TCP IP and click Properties ...

Page 27: ...Access Point 192 168 2 1 Set the Primary DNS to the IP address of your Wireless Access Point 192 168 2 1 The Secondary DNS is not required or you can enter the IP address of the DNS server provided by your ISP Click OK once then click OK again in next dialogue box If you re prompted to reboot your computer click Yes 5 How can I assign a Static IP Address in Windows XP Click on Start Control Panel ...

Page 28: ...ch your Web browser and enter the IP Address of your Wireless Access Point in the address bar You should be able to see the login page of Wireless Access Point Input administrator account and password to login ...

Page 29: ...erline network check data rate and performance enables encryption and performing diagnostics 4 1 Software Setup 4 1 1 Installation Please verify that no other Powerline Management Utilities are installed before installing this software If other utilities are installed uninstall them first and restart your computer before installing this software To install insert the Windows OS configuration utili...

Page 30: ...ility icon Figure 2 shows the content of main tab of the configuration utility The following picture shows a Powerline Ethernet device connected as a local device and other Powerline Ethernet devices as remote devices Figure 2 Main tab with a local high speed Powerline Ethernet device ...

Page 31: ...nected to the same computer such as a USB and an Ethernet device the user have to click the device he or she wish to manage and then click the Connect button to its right The status area above the button indicates that your PC is connected to selected device Once connected to the a chosen local device the utility will automatically scan the power line periodically for any other Powerline Ethernet ...

Page 32: ...31 Figure 4 Multiple local devices found ...

Page 33: ... displayed with the name MAC Address column shows the device s MAC address Password column shows the user defined device password initially left blank A user may change the password by clicking Set Password button To set the Password of the device required when creating a secured private network first select the device by clicking on its name in the lower panel and then click on the Enter Password...

Page 34: ...if the password was entered correctly and the device was found If a device is not found the user will be prompted and instructions to this problem will be shown too Figure 6 Add Remote Device Note The device must be present on the power line plugged in in order to check the password so it can be added to the network If the device could not be located a warning message will be shown The Scan button...

Page 35: ...rk network name which is normally HomePlug The Privacy tab allows user to make the network private by changing the network name network password of devices The user can always reset a Powerline Ethernet network to the universal one public by entering HomePlug as the network name or by clicking on the Use Default button Note Changing the network name to any other name other than HomePlug will show ...

Page 36: ... selecting this option The Set All Devices button is used to change the logical network of all devices that appear on the Main panel The user must have entered the device s Password in order to set it to the new logical network A notification message will appear to report this operation is successfully completed 4 4 The Diagnostics Tab The Diagnostics tab shows system information and a history of ...

Page 37: ...reen The lower panel contains a history of all remote devices found by the computer Devices are shown here regardless they are located on the same logical network or not Devices that are active on the current logical network will show a transfer rate in the Rate column For those devices which are located on other networks or devices that may no longer exist are shown with an mark in the Rate colum...

Page 38: ...mailing to technical support of a manufacturer or printed for reference during a technical support call Devices no longer part of the network can be deleted using the delete button 4 4 1 About tab This tab shows the software release date Figure 10 About dialog screen 4 4 2 Preferences The lower part of the panel may display options for user preferences such as turning the auto scan feature on or o...

Page 39: ... the computer is unable to connect to another or the remote Powerline device can not found by Powerline utility please follow the following steps to solve the problem Step 1 Launch the utility to check you can access the device or not You can click the Main tab to check the status of local or remote Powerline devices If no remote Powerline device is detected please check network ID maybe someone c...

Page 40: ...as the same name of other Powerline device or click the Use Default Public Network button Please click the Set Local Device Only button to change the network name Please make sure the Private Network Name value must the same with the other Powerline devices Step 3 Connect the PC to the Powerline device of step 1 and other Powerline device should be able to be found in the Main tab ...

Page 41: ...e thickness of a wire Bridge A device connects two or more physical networks and forwards packets between them Bridges can also filter packets that is to forward only certain traffic Related devices are repeaters which simply forward electrical signals from one network to the other and full fledged router which make routing decisions based on several criteria Broadband Characteristic of any networ...

Page 42: ...ically assigned to a client station computer printer etc on a TCP IP network Dynamic IP addresses are typically assigned by a DHCP server which can be a computer on the network or another piece of hardware such as the Wireless Access Point A dynamic IP address may change every time your computer connects to the network Encapsulation The technique used by layered protocols in which a layer adds hea...

Page 43: ...mbers to user organizations accessing the Internet These addresses are established by the United States Department of Defense s Network Information Center Duplicate addresses can cause major problems on the network but the NIC trusts organizations to use individual addresses responsibly Each address is a 32 bit address in the form of x x x x where x is an eight bit number from 0 to 255 There are t...

Page 44: ...e destination host POTS Plain Old Telephone Service This is the term used to describe basic telephone service PPP Point to Point Protocol The successor to SLIP PPP provides point to point and point to network connections over both synchronous and asynchronous circuits PPPoE PPP over Ethernet is a protocol for connecting remote hosts to the Internet over an always on connection by simulating a dial...

Page 45: ...Protocol The network management protocol of choice for TCP IP based Internet SOCKET 1 The Berkeley UNIX mechanism for creating a virtual connection between processes 2 IBM term for software interfaces that allow two UNIX application programs to talk via TCP IP protocols Spanning Tree Bridge Protocol STP Spanning Tree Bridge Protocol STP Part of an IEEE standard A mechanism for detecting and preven...

Page 46: ...version of FTP that is often used to boot diskless workstations and other network devices such as routers over a network typically a LAN Telnet The virtual terminal protocol in the Internet suite of protocols Allows users of one host to log into a remote host and act as normal terminal users of that host Transparent bridging It s named because the intelligence necessary to make relaying decisions ...

Page 47: ...k via the most appropriate route The sending and receiving devices do not have to be aware of the options and the route is chosen only when a message is sent There is no pre arrangement so each virtual connection exists only for the duration of that one transmission WAN Wide Area Network A data communications network that spans any distance and is usually provided by a public carrier such as a tel...

Page 48: ...y used type of network cable today Cat 5 cables are tipped with RJ 45 connectors which fit into RJ 45 port Straight through vs Crossover Cables LAN Connection Check if LEDs are illuminated when you finish connecting two pieces of hardware Straight through Wire Becomes 1 1 2 2 3 3 6 6 Straight through Wire Becomes 1 1 2 2 3 3 6 6 ...

Page 49: ...ion of the Laws of the Member States relating to Electromagnetic Compatibility 89 336 EEC 1999 5 EC For the evaluation of above mentioned Directives the following standards were applied ETSI EN 301 489 17 V1 2 1 2002 08 Declaration of Conformity for CE Marking The following Equipment Powerline 85M Wireless G Access Point is herewith confirmed to comply with the requirements of its Harmonised Stand...

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