Ip Addresses And Ip Address Range - Siemens Gigaset Powerline Adapter 200 User Manual

IP addresses and IP address range

You can determine your own IP addresses for the PCs and other devices in your Power-
line network. To do this use addresses from an address block reserved for private use.
This is the address block
192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.254
Example:
PC 1: 192.168.15.1
PC 2: 192.168.15.2 etc.
Please note:
IP addresses used for devices which should communicate with each other must be in the
same IP address range. The IP address range is determined by the
net mask determines how many parts of the IP address of a network represent the net-
work number and how many the computer number.
Subnet mask
255.0.0.0
255.255.0.0
255.255.255.0
x stands for a number from 1 to 254.
Example:
The subnet mask used is 255.255.255.0. This means that the first three address seg-
ments for all network components must be identical.
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The following examples are correct:
Gigaset Powerline Adapter 200 (access point): 192.168.2.10
Second Gigaset Powerline Adapter 200: 192.168.2.11
PC 1 connected to the access point: 192.168.2.15
PC 2 connected to the second Gigaset Powerline Adapter 200: 192.168.2.60
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The following examples are incorrect:
Gigaset Powerline Adapter 200 (access point): 192.168.2.10
Second Gigaset Powerline Adapter 200: 192.168.2.11
PC 1: 192.168.3.2
PC 2: 192.168.4.3
Network number (example)
192.
192.168.
192.168.2
Defining IP addresses
Subnet mask. The sub-
Possible IP addresses
192.x.x.x
192.168.x.x
192.168.2.x
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