LevelOne PLI-1010 User manual

LevelOne
PLI-1010
HomePlug USB Adapter
User’s Manual

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Table of Contents
Check your package contents..................................................2
Physical Description ..............................................................................2
Software Installation............................................................................3
Using the Configuration Utility ................................................8
Introduction.....................................................................................................8
Running the utility...................................................................................8
Device dialog screen..................................................................................9
Network dialog screen ............................................................................ 11
Security dialog screen.............................................................................12
Advanced dialog screen .........................................................................13

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Check your package contents
 PLI-1010 HomePlug USB Adapter
 One USB Cable
 Installation CD
 QIG
Physical Description
LNK - Indicate connected with powerline network
ACT - Indicate powerline activity
COL - Flash when a collision is detected
USB – The USB jack is where you will connect the USB cable

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Software Installation
Insert the Installation CD-ROM into the computer’s CD-ROM drive. The setup utility
should run automatically. If it does not, click the start button and choose Run. In the box
that appears, enter D:\setup.exe (Where D is the letter of your CD drive).
The CD will launch an installation utility then follow the instruction in the installation
utility.
Click “Next”

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Input “User Name/Organization” and click “Next” to move on to the next step.

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Select “Install” to start the installation.

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When prompted by the install utility, Plung in the powerline AC prong.
Plug the AC prong into an AC outlet.
Plug the supplied USB cable into the USB jack and an available USB port on your PC.
<Note> Do not plug the device into a UPS or power strip with surge protection.

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Click “Finish” to exit the installation utility.
You may be asked to restart your computer. Click “Yes” to restart now, or click “No” to
restart later.
The installation of PLI-1010 complete.

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Using the LevelOne PLI-1010 Utility
Click the “LevelOne PLI-1010 Utility ” icon to run the utility.
Introduction
The LevelOne PLI-1010 Utility for powerline networking enables the user to find devices
on the powerline network, measure data rate performance and ensure privacy by setting
a user defined network private password.
This utility gives you the capability to set up a network password on the local device
Connected to the computer where the utility is running. It gives you as well, through the
advanced option, the capability to set up a network password remotely on other devices
through the power line.
Before running this utility, make sure that a powerline device is properly installed and
connected to your computer.
Running the utility
To run the utility, double click the LevelOne PLI-1010 Utility icon on your desktop.
The wizard has five different dialog screens options accessible through the following tabs:
Device, Network, Security, Advanced and About. In the coming sections, we will explain
the purpose and the functionality of each of them.

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Device dialog screen
The Device dialog screen provides a list of your powerline devices connected to the
computer where the utility is running and average data rate performance of your
powerline network.
Initially, the wizard starts the Device dialog screen.
Once the analysis is done, a screen similar to the following figure.
In the text list box, it reports back all powerline devices found that are locally connected
to the computer where the utility is running.
In most cases, one device only is listed.
In case you have more, click on one of them and hit Connect. Make sure that the state
box indicates that your PC is connected to the same device. Now you are ready to
manage the powerline network connected to this device, ensure its privacy and measure
its data rate performance.
Press Refresh button to refresh the search of the powerline devices connected to your
computer.
The progress bar will change into a status bar indicating the network average data rate.

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Network dialog screen
The Network dialog screen provides detailed information about your powerline network.
The test list box shows all powerline devices found on your powerline network identified
by their MAC addresss. A second column indicates their date rate measurements in
Mbps.
Press Scan Powerline Network button to refresh the listed information.
Note:
In case a powerline device in your home is not listed in the screen above, make sure that
its network password has not been made private previously with a different password
than your current private network password.
You can always reset a powerline network password to a universal on by running the
Configuration utility on the PC attached to this device and choose “HomePlug” as the
network password.

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Security dialog screen
All powerline devices are shipped using “HomePlug” as a network password. The
Security dialog screen allows you to change this network password and set your own
private password and apply it to the powerline device connected to the computer where
the utility running.
Hit Restore default button to restore the original network password “HomePlug” and
apply it locally.
Hit Set Local button to change the network password locally.
Note:
Your private network password must have between 4 and 24 characters. The password
is case sensitive. The password can include any letters of the alphabet, number or
punctuation marks. Remember this password as it will be needed when adding other
devices to the network later.

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Advanced dialog screen
The Advanced dialog screen allows you to set up a network password remotely on other
powerline devices through the powerline.
Type your private network password into the Network Password text box.
The other devices on the network with powerline capabilities will have a different
password printed on either the box itself. Find the passwords for all devices you want to
manage and type them one by one into the Device Password text box and hit Add. This
will add the passwords to Remote Passwords text list box and set them to the currently
defined Network Password.
Note: The device must be present on the powerline in order for the password to be
confirmed and added to the Remote Passwords list.
The Status indicates whether each device is successfully set to the Network
Password.“OK” indicates success while “Fail” indicates a failure.
Hit Set All to apply your private network password to all devices that are listed in the
Remote Passwords text list box and to your local device connected to the computer
where the utility is running as well.
Select a password and hit Remove to remove it from the list.