Procedure For Installation And Configuration - Siemens Gigaset Powerline Adapter 200 User Manual

Procedure for installation and configuration

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First ensure that the devices you want to connect to the Gigaset Powerline Adapter
200 have a free Ethernet LAN port.
If you are using an older PC you might have to install an external Ethernet
adapter. How to install it is described in the user guide for the product.
Default configuration
Default configuration means that you use the two supplied Gigaset Powerline Adapter
200 to establish one of the configurations outlined in the section "Local networks with
Gigaset Powerline Adapter 200" on page 4 to:
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connect two PCs,
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connect one PC to the Internet, or
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connect one IPTV set-top box to the Internet.
To set up such a Powerline network:
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Make the necessary connections to the Gigaset Powerline Adapter 200 (see section
"Connecting the Gigaset Powerline Adapter 200" on page 13).
Once you have connected the devices the Powerline network is ready for use. No further
configuration tasks are necessary.
If you connect two PCs via your Powerline network, the PCs can only com-
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municate if their
addressing, see the chapter "Defining IP addresses" on page 26.
Preset configuration settings
The following configuration is preset:
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One Gigaset Powerline Adapter 200 is supplied with operation mode Access point,
the other with operation mode Automatic (normal Powerline adapter).
AP in the bottom line of the label indicates that this device is preconfigured as access
point (page 11).
EP in the bottom line of the label indicates that this device is preconfigured as end
point (automatic, page 12).
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In a Gigaset Powerline Adapter 200 Duo the default
is 192.168.2.10, for the other adapter 192.168.2.11.
The IP address of a single Gigaset Powerline Adapter 200 is 192.168.2.12 by default.
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The default Subnet mask
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The network ID and the encryption key used to protect your network against unau-
thorised access are based on the
The Gigaset Powerline Adapter 200
IP addresses are set properly. For more information on IP
is 255.255.255.0.
MAC address
IP address for the access point
of the access point.
Network
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