Digitus DN-15019-2, User Manual

Page 1: ...Powerline Ethernet Bridge User s Manual DN 15019 2 ...

Page 2: ...5 1 5 Package Contents 5 1 6 LED Definitions 6 1 7 System Requirements 6 2 Powerline Networking Utility 7 2 1 User Interface Network Information Tab 10 2 2 User Interface Encryption Tab 11 2 3 User Interface Link Information Tab 12 2 4 User Interface Connection Information Tab 13 2 5 User Interface QoS Tab 15 3 Push Button Setting 18 4 Trouble Shooting 21 ...

Page 3: ...2 1 Powerline Networking Installation 1 1 Simple step to install Powerline Networking ...

Page 4: ...3 1 2 Application Block Diagram 1 2 1 Internet ADSL with one computer via power outlet 1 2 2 Online game via power outlet ...

Page 5: ...4 1 2 3 Internet ADSL and Home Networking via power outlet ...

Page 6: ...Powerline 85M or 14M bridges Easy to install Throughout the whole house just use your power circuit to access the Internet or PC network Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing for high data reliability in noisy media conditions Integrated Enhanced Quality of Service QoS features Eight levels of prioritized random access contention free access and segment bursting Up to 200Mbps data rate on Pow...

Page 7: ... connection is OK Flashing Data transfer OFF No link to Ethernet POWER ON Power on OFF Powerline off or failure Button Description Secure Button can auto secure and group the Powerline devices Reset Push this button can reset to the factory default settings 1 7 System Requirements Ethernet device AC power outlet Windows system for encryption setup ...

Page 8: ...fore installing this product If other utilities are installed uninstall them and restart before installing this software The utility only support Windows 2000 XP and 2003 To install insert the Windows OS Configuration Utility Setup utility CD ROM into the computer s CD ROM drive The Setup utility shall run automatically Alternatively this can also be done manually by double clicking the setup exe ...

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Page 10: ...evice has been found The read only drop down box of the second field lists the available network adapters found on the system Use the drop down box to select the appropriate adapter for connection to the local Powerline device The third field lists the MAC Address of the connected node The fourth field lists the firmware version of the locally connected node The fifth field serves as a status indi...

Page 11: ... STA The Coded rates exclude FEC bits The Raw rate is the actual channel bit rate The Raw rate is determined by carrier bit loading and the applied HomePlug AV Tone Mask which utilizes 917 carriers out of a possible 1155 If all carriers were to be utilized with maximum bit loading on all 1155 carriers the Raw channel rate would be approximately 250 Mbps With the HomePlug AV Tone Mask applied the m...

Page 12: ...the entered password The Set Encryption for Remote device checkbox should be selected to set the Network Password for the remote device The Push Button controls box includes the Action drop down box that provides a choice of three actions Simple Connect NMK Randomize and AVLN Status signaled to the device when the Simulate Button Push button is pressed Additionally two configuration parameters are...

Page 13: ... and the Destination Address is selected from a drop down list 2 3 2 Ethernet Controls The Ethernet Controls are populated once the Retrieve button is pushed and indicate the PHY settings of both ends of the link 2 3 3 Control and Statistics Groups The members of the Statistics group are populated or cleared based on the radio button selection in the Controls group and the pressing of the Execute ...

Page 14: ...e device Local device All Yes Remote device Local device CA0 or CA1 or CA2 or CA3 Yes Remote device Remote device Any No 2 4 2 Transmission and Reception Statistics The Transmission and Reception Statistics groups return operational data regarding MPDU s and packet data unit handling Results shown in these fields provide valuable connection quality information Transmission Statistics MPDUs Ack d M...

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Page 16: ...used for data Mapping VLAN tags or TOS bits to CAP levels is easily done using the VLAN Priority Mapping function on the QoS tab window 2 5 1 List Views The QoS tab includes two list views to provide simple channel access priority CAP classification for individual MAC addresses and IP Ports There is a collective limit of eight across both lists No delimiters colons or dashes are allowed in the MAC...

Page 17: ...cast default CAP 1 sets the default channel access priority for unicast frames not matching any other classification or mapping IGMP managed Multicast Stream Fixed to CAP 2 sets the default channel access priority for stream data belonging to a snooped IGMP multicast group Multicast Broadcast sets the default CAP for multicast frames not in a snooped group and for broadcast frames After making CAP...

Page 18: ...lue can be varied from 10 msec to 65000 msec which can be mapped to different levels of Channel access priority traffic The default values used are stored in the PIB file as shown below CA0 traffic 2000 msec used for TCP data traffic CA1 traffic 2000 msec used for TCP data traffic CA2 traffic 300 msec used for UDP video music traffic CA3 traffic 300 msec used for VoIP traffic Intellon highly recom...

Page 19: ... device is in reset process Secure button can auto secure and group the Powerline devices the follow is the scenario for secure button Two Push Button trigger state conditions Adder state for a device providing the NMK for an existing AVLN Joiner state for a device that will join an AVLN Pushing buttons on any two devices results in one of them becoming an adder and the other one a joiner Three po...

Page 20: ...ng AVLN Possible Use Case Scenario 2 Two devices joining to form new AVLN Before this scenario begin please make sure to press each device secure button 10 sec till all LEDs re flash to generate the random network password key first Possible Use Case Scenario 3 Reset ...

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Page 22: ...ollow the steps to check the problem 1 Due to the master slave structure you need to avoid plugging two Powerline bridge in the same time so you had better plug the Powerline to the power outlet sequence 2 Please unplug the Powerline bridge and plug again please remember plug them in sequence Check the Powerline utility and check the throughput again 4 Why the Powerine 200M device can not work sta...