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- Page 1 MEGA ePower 85 Powerline Network USER MANUAL (MEGA ePower 85) Instant Networks for Internet Access…and More! Solution for SOHO, S MALL FFICE AND FFICE...
- Page 2 ACKAGE ONTENTS SAFETY NOTICE:.........................4 GETTING TO KNOW THE ADAPTER ..................5 .....................5 THERNET NTERFACE ......................5 DAPTER HOW TO INSTALL UTILITY ......................6 HOW TO USE MSI UTILITY SOFTWARE ................8 ..........................8 ......................... 11 RIVACY .........................13 IAGNOSTICS ..........................15 BOUT APPENDIX A SPECIFICATIONS....................16 APPENDIX B...
- Page 3 MEGA ePower 85 USER MANUAL 1 Introduction This Utility Program enables users to find 85Mbps PLC-Ethernet Bridge devices on the Powerline network, measures data rate performance, ensures privacy and performs diagnostics by setting user defined secure Powerline networks. 1.1 System Requirements...
- Page 4 2 Safety Notice: This device is intended for connection to the AC power line. For installation instructions, please refer to the installation section of this guide. The following precautions should be taken when using this product. Read all instructions before installing and operating this product. Follow all warnings and instructions marked on the product.
- Page 5 3 Getting to Know the Adapter 3.1 The Ethernet Interface Ethernet: The Ethernet port connects to an Ethernet network cable. The other end of the cable will connect to your computer or other Ethernet-enabled network device. Figure 3-1 Side panel 3.2 The Adapter's LEDs All Adapter's LEDs are located on the front panel, there are 3 LEDs to indicate the adapter’s status.
- Page 6 Second step, please insert the Utility CD-ROM into the computer’s CD-ROM drive. Find the Utility Setup file as below: X:\ ePower 85\SOFTWARE\MSI ePower 85 Utility_EN\Power Packet5.0 _x86Setup. Click the setup.exe and the Next button to continue.(If your operating system is 64bit, please choice the Utility Setup file ”Power...
- Page 7 Figure 4-2 Select Installation Folder Figure 4-3 Installation Complete Click “Close” to complete installation.
- Page 8 5 How to Use MSI Utility Software 5.1 Main Tab The Main screen provides a list of all Powerline devices logically connected to the computer when the utility is running. The top panel shows local HomePlug devices connected to the computer’s NIC (Network Interface Card).
- Page 9 Device Name This column shows the default device name, which may be user re-defined. A user can change the name by either using the rename button or by clicking on the name and editing in-place. MAC Address This column shows the Remote device’s MAC address. Password This column by default is blank and “Enter Password”...
- Page 10 Figure 5-3: Add Remote Device Note: The device must be present on the power line (plugged in) in order for the password to be confirmed and added to the network. If the device could not be located, a warning message will be shown. Scan This button is used to perform an immediate search of the HomePlug devices connected to the Powerline network.
- Page 11 5.2 Privacy Tab The Privacy screen provides the user with an option to maintain security for their logical network and also to select the devices that has to be included in the network. The appearance is shown in Figure 5-4. All HomePlug devices are shipped using a default logical network (network name), which is normally “HomePlug”.
- Page 12 Set All Devices This button is used to change the logical network of all devices that appear on the Main panel whose Device’s Password had been entered for the same logical network. A dialog window will appear to report the success of this operation. For devices whose device password’s were not entered, this operation will fail and will report a failure message.
- Page 13 5.3 Diagnostics Tab The Diagnostics screen shows System information and a history of all remote devices seen over a period of time. The appearance is shown in Figure 5-5. The Upper panel shows technical data concerning software and hardware present on the host computer which were used to communicate over HomePlug on the Powerline network.
- Page 14 following remote device information is available from the diagnostics screen: Device Alias Name Device MAC Address Device Password Device Last known rate Device Last Known Network name HomePlug chipset manufacturer name Date device last seen on the network MAC Firmware Version The diagnostics information displayed may be saved to a text file for later use, or can be printed for reference for a technical support call.
- Page 15 5.4 About Tab The About screen shows the software version and provides a html link to the MSI website. Clicking on the web address field will open a web browser and take the user directly to the web site. Figure 5-6: About Dialog Tab...
- Page 16 Appendix A Specifications Chipset Intellon INT5500 Protocol HomePlug 1.0 Turbo System Support Windows 98SE, 2000, ME, XP 32/64 bit and Vista 32/64bit PLC Rate 85Mbps Modulation Band 4-21MHz Modulation Schemes Supports 256/64/16/8-QAM, QPSK,BPSK and ROBO 56 DES Encryption Power LED’s Ethernet: Ethernet Link and Activity Data: PLC Link and Activity Consumption...
- Page 17 Appendix B Contact Information For help with the Installation or operation of the MSI Mega ePower 85 adapter, please contact us. Technical Support : for all MSI Products Notebooks Tel.: 01805-215 521 (0,12 €/Min. german landline!) Outside Germany pleas call: 0049-1805-215 521...
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