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D-Link DHN-520 10Mb Home Phoneline Network Adapter for the PCI Bus

Introduction

Thank you for choosing the D-Link DHN-520.

As a leading network

manufacturer, D-Link is dedicated to making the best cost/performance adapter on

the market. This Introduction chapter will be useful if you are new to phoneline-

based networking and other new technologies featured in the D -link DHN-520.

Otherwise, skip ahead to the Installation chapter.

For more information on D-Link go to www.dlink.com.

HomePNA 1.0 is a standard as defined and ratified by the Home Phoneline

Networking Association (HomePNA). Currently The DHN-520 was designed

around the proposed iLine10

standard as accepted by the HomePNA on July

27, 1999 as the basis for HomePNA 2.0.

Home Phoneline Networking allows a home user to build a network utilizing their

standard home phone lines. It removes the need to install separate hardware or

specialty cables as is required by other networking technologies. With a full 10Mb

of bandwidth, the data throughput speed is effectively 150-200 times faster than a

V.90 modem.

This technology will allow a Microsoft Window 95 OSR2, Windows 98, Windows

Me, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 user to quickly share files and printers.

With additional software a user may also play multi-player network games and

share Internet access.

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