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TL-PA201 200Mbps Powerline Ethernet Adapter

Chapter 4 Using The Management Utility

After you’d successfully installed the Powerline Ethernet Adapter hardware and Management Utility

software, you can setup or configure the devices according to your need.

This Powerline Ethernet 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.

Here, we take the operation system Windows XP for example, as the configuration for the other two

systems is similar.

Double click on the “TL-PA201 Powerline Utility” from your windows desktop, the following screen

display. This Management Utility consists of a set of five property sheets, viz., “Main”, “Privacy”,

“QOS”, “Diagnostics” and “About”.

4.1 Main

The Main tab shows all the Powerline Ethernet Adapter that are logically connected to the current

computer where the Management Utility is running.