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- Page 1 TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Rev: 1.0.0 1910010392...
- Page 2 Specifications are subject to change without notice. is a registered trademark of TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. No part of the specifications may be reproduced in any form or by any means or used to make any derivative such as translation, transformation, or adaptation without permission from TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
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Page 3: Fcc Statement
FCC STATEMENT This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. -
Page 4: Important Safety Instructions
Important Safety Instructions 1. Do Not open this product or attempt to service this product, it may expose you to dangerous high voltage and other risks. 2. Do Not operate this product near water. 3. Do Not place or operate near or over radiator or heat register. 4. -
Page 5: Table Of Contents
CONTENTS Chapter 1 Introduction ..................... 1 Chapter 2 Connecting Mechanism .................. 2 2.1 Introduction ......................2 2.2 LED Indicator ......................2 2.3 Physical Interface ....................3 2.4 Hardware Connection – Computer ................4 2.5 Hardware Connection – Internet ................4 Chapter 3 Installing Management Utility ................. -
Page 6: Chapter 1 Introduction
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Chapter 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of this outstanding Mini Powerline Adapter. This device is an AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter which transforms your house‟s existing electrical wiring into an ubiquitous networking infrastructure. Simply plug this AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter into an ordinary AC power outlet which will easily extend your Cable/xDSL broadband connection or existing Ethernet (LAN) network to any other electrical outlet in any room of a house without the need of any new cabling. -
Page 7: Chapter 2 Connecting Mechanism
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Chapter 2 Connecting Mechanism 2.1 Introduction The Mini Powerline Adapter supports up to 200Mbps data rate. With this high speed connection rate, this Mini Powerline Adapter allows you to setup a high speed home network by using your home existing electrical wiring. -
Page 8: Physical Interface
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter The Adapter has connected to a Powerline network. Flashing The Adapter is transmitting or receiving data. The Ethernet port is not connected to a device or the device is power off. The Ethernet port is linked, but there is no activity. Ethernet LED Flashing Data is being transmitted through the Ethernet port... -
Page 9: Hardware Connection - Computer
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Use the Push buttons 2.4 Hardware Connection – Computer For those computers you wish to be networked by Mini Powerline Adapter, each of the computers must be properly connected with a Mini Powerline Adapter through an Ethernet (RJ-45) cable. Following are the steps to properly connect the Mini Powerline Adapter to your computer: 1．... - Page 10 TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter The hardware connection mechanism is shown below: Note: Do not connect the Powerline adapter to an extension lead, power strip, extension cord, surge protector as this may degrade the network performance.
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Page 11: Chapter 3 Installing Management Utility
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Chapter 3 Installing Management Utility Please verify that no other Mini Powerline Adapter or any Encryption Management Utilities are installed before installing the provided software. If other Powerline Utilities are installed, uninstall them and restart your personal computer before installing this provided software. ... - Page 12 TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter...
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- Page 14 TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter After the installation, a shortcut to the “TL-PA211 Powerline Utility” application icon is Step 2: provided on the windows desktop.
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Page 15: Chapter 4 Using The Management Utility
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Chapter 4 Using The Management Utility After you‟d successfully installed the Mini Powerline Adapter hardware and Management Utility software, you can setup or configure the devices according to your need. This Mini Powerline Adapter Configuration Utility enables the users to identify powerline devices on the powerline network, measures data rate performance, ensures privacy and performs diagnostics by setting user defined secure powerline networks. - Page 16 NVM: None-volatile memory. It is used for upgrading the firmware. If you want to upgrade the version of firmware for the device, please select appropriate Firmware and PIB files together. New firmware versions and PIB files are posted at www.tp-link.com and can be downloaded for free. ...
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Page 17: Rename
AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter To upgrade the device's firmware, follow these instructions: Download PIB file and firmware upgrade file from the TP-LINK website www.tp-link.com). Enter the path name or click Browse… to select the downloaded files on the computer into the corresponding blanks. -
Page 18: Enter Password
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter 4.1.2 Enter Password To set or change your Mini Powerline Adapter‟s password, click and select the Mini Powerline Adapter you wish to change from the list, then click on the “Enter Password” tab, the following screen display. Enter your Password ( Please note the format, enter it uppercase ) and click “OK”... -
Page 19: Add Device
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter 4.1.3 Add Device The following dialog box pop-up when clicking the “Add” button under Main configuration homepage. The dialog box allows you to enter both the selected device‟s name and password. Noted that the Mini Powerline Adapter must be present on the power grid in order to activate the set password and added to the local network. -
Page 20: Reset
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter 4.1.4 Reset This Management Utility allows you to reset the Mini Powerline Adapter to its default settings by clicking the Reset button on the Main page. 4.2 Privacy The Privacy configuration page provides a means for managing the local network and providing additional security for the logical network and also to select the devices that has to be included in the network. -
Page 21: Qos
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Set Local Device Only: Click this tab to change the network name of the local Mini Powerline Adapter device only. All Mini Powerline Adapter devices seen on the Main configuration homepage prior to this will be no longer present in the new network, effectively making the local devices not to communicate to the devices which were in the old logical network. -
Page 22: Diagnostics
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter QoS requirements are different for various data types such as streaming video or music, voice and raw data. To provide higher QoS for streaming data, priority levels can be set using tags at the beginning of data frames. - Page 23 TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter The Diagnostics information displayed can be saved to a text file. One can email the saved text file to the local supplier when there‟s technical support require or print the saved text file as reference during a technical support conference.
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Page 24: About
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Device Last known rate Device Last Known Network name Date device last seen on the network 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 25: Chapter 5 Advance Feature: How To Use The Push Buttons
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Chapter 5 Advance Feature: How to Use the Push buttons 5.1 Pair( Secure with 128 bits-AES) The Homeplug AV standard uses 128-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) to safely transmit data between powerline adapters. For the powerline adapters to communicate with each other they all need to use the same Network Membership Key (NMK). - Page 26 TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Join an existing Powerline AV Network: Powerline adapter A and Powerline adapter B form a HomeplugAV Network, Powerline adapter C wants to join this network. Step 1. Press and hold the Pair button on Powerline adapter C for 3 to 8 seconds. Step 2.
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Page 27: Chapter 6 Appendix A: Troubleshooting Guide
TL-PA211 AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter Chapter 6 Appendix A: Troubleshooting Guide The Troubleshooting Guide provides answers to common problems regarding the Mini Powerline Adapter. 1. The Power LED does not light up. Ans. Check the following: a) Make sure that the Mini Powerline Adapter is properly plugged into a power outlet. b) Make sure the power outlet is active (working) by plugging another electric device into it.