Digitus DN-15019-2 User Manual

Powerline Ethernet Bridge

User’s Manual

(DN-15019-2)

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Index

1. Powerline Networking Installation ............................................................................................................................. 2

1.1 Simple step to install Powerline Networking ......................................................................................... 2

1.2 Application Block Diagram ..................................... ...... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ............. ......................... 3

1.3 Benefits .................................................................................................................................................. 5

1.4 Features .............................. ....... ....... ....... ....... ............. ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... . .............................. 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 - Q oS Tab ..................................................................................................................... 15

3. Push Button Setting ................................................................................................................................................ 18

4. Trouble Shooting ..................................................................................................................................................... 21

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1. Powerline Networking Installation

1.1 Simple step to install Powerline Networking

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1.2 Application Bl ock Diagram

1.2.1 Internet ADSL with one computer via power outlet

1.2.2 Online game via po wer o utl et

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1.2.3 Internet ADSL and Home Networking via power outlet

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1.3 Benef i ts

‧Data transfers at up to 200 Mbps over the household power circuit
‧Ranges of 200 meters
‧No need new wires for Home n etworking
‧Deliver the benefits of Ethernet without the wiring expense
‧Send even large files bet ween PCs without long wait s
‧High-speed Internet and DVD-quality video streaming
‧Fully compliant with IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u
‧Privacy through DES encryption

1.4 Feat ures

‧Use the home's existi ng Powerline
‧Support coexist with 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 Frequ ency Division Multiplex in g for h ig h data reliability in noisy media co nd it i on s

‧Integrated Enha nc e d Q ua lity of Service(QoS) f eatures: Eight level s of prio r it ized random access, c ont e ntion
free access, and segment bursting

‧Up to 200Mbps data rate on Powerli ne
‧Provide 128-bit AES Link Encryption with key management for secure Powerline communications
‧LEDs indicate status

1.5 Package Contents

‧Powerline 200M E ther net Bridge unit
‧Powerline Network Manageme nt CD
‧Quick Installation Guide
‧Category 5 cable

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1.6 LED Definitions

LED State Description

Powerline

ON Powerline network activity.

OFF Search or no Powerl ine net work activity.

Ethernet

ON Ethernet 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 sec ure a n d gr ou p th e Powerline devices.

Reset

Push this button can reset to the factory default settings.

1.7 Syst em Requirem e n ts

‧Ethernet device
‧AC power outlet
‧Windows system for encryption setup

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2. Powerline Networking Utility

Note

The Powerline Device can auto detect the other Powerline bridges which plug in the same power circuit, you don’t
need to use this Powerline utility except you want to encryption all the Powerline devices as the same group or you
can not access the other com puters.

Introduction of Configuration Utility

The Configuration Utility for Windows OS enables the user to fi nd Powerline Ethernet devices on the Powerline
network; measure s da ta rate performa nc e, en su r es pr ivacy, performs di ag no st ics and secures Power li ne n et works.

Configuration Utility Setup

Installation of the Utility

Please verify that no ot her Power line M anagem ent Ut ilit ies are inst all ed b efor e inst a lling t his pr oduct. I f ot her utiliti es
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 file
on the CD. The CD will launc h an in stallation utility similar to the one shown in Figure 2.1.1.
Click the Utility to enter the Utility install page. Please make sure if your windows OS doesn’t install the .NET
Framework, please install it first, otherwise, the Powerline Utility will work not properly. If already installed the .NET
framework, please inst al l the Powerline Utility directly. After that, it w ill po p up the setu p wi z ard as the Fi gu r e 2.1. 2,
please click the Next button to continue.

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Figure 2.1.1.

Figure 2.1.2.

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Common Features of Tabbe d Windows

Status Bar

The status bar, along the bottom of each window, contains five fields that provide important network information.

• The first field contains the status of the Device Manager in respect to connection to a Powerline device.
‘Connected’ indicates a local device has been identified. ‘Not connected’ indicates no device has been found.

• The read only dro p d ow n b ox of the se co nd f i el d lists the availabl e n etwork adapters found o n th e system. Use the
drop down box to select the appropriate adapter for connectio n to the local Powerline device.

• The third fi eld lists the MAC Ad dress of the connected node.

• The fourth field lists the firmware version of the locally connected node.

• The fifth field serves as a status indicator for the various download functions of the Device Manager, displaying a
progress bar and messages pertaining to the various stages of operation.

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2.1 User Interface - Network Information Tab

This window is an Op eratio n Analy sis w indow that r eveals Netw ork inf ormat ion in three catego ries: CCo Inf orma tion ,
Connected STA Information and Topology.

2.1.1. Topology

The ‘Topology’ group shows the TEI, MAC Address, Bridged MAC Address and the transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx)
Coded and Raw PHY rat es for all no des on t he ne twork (other than the loca l STA) .
The ‘Coded’ r at e s ex cl ud e 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 HomeP lug AV Tone Mask applied, the maximum Raw channel rate is approximately 200 Mbps (198 Mbps
maximum actual).
Factory Default s: Press this button can reset the settings to the factory default.

Figure 1: Network Inf or m at io n Tab

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2.2 User Interface - En cryption Tab

This Encryption window is used to set or change the network password on a remote device identified by its DAK
password. Click in g th e ‘S et’ button sets the entered passwords. If the DAK pass word field is left blank, the n cl icki ng
the ‘Set’ button will set local device with the entered password. The ‘Set Encryption for Remote device’ checkbox
should be selected to set th e Network Password for the re mot e d e v ice.

The Push Button controls box inclu des the ‘Action’ drop down box that provides a choice of three actions {Si mple
Connect, NMK Ran domize and AVLN Status} signaled to the device when the ‘Simulate Button Push’ button is
pressed. Additionally, tw o confi gu r at io n parameters are exp os e d i n the ‘P IB Co ntr o ls’ sub-grou p box .

Press Set button to save the settings.

Figure 2: Encryption Tab

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2.3 User Interface - Link Information Tab

2.3.1. Link Characteristics Box

The context of the link is identified with the Source and Destination address boxes in the Link Characteristics group
box. The Source Address d efau lts to t he ad dress of t he dev ice s ele ct ed in t he De vice S elect ion b ox on th e low er lef t
of the tab and the Dest i nation Address is selecte d fr o m a dr op d ow n li st .

2.3.2. Ethernet Controls

The Ethernet Cont r ols a r e po pu l at ed once the Retriev e button is pushed and in d icat e the PHY settin gs of both ends
of the link.

2.3.3. Contro l and Statistics Grou ps

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 button. The lower status window provides feedback regarding the processing
of the activity.

Figure 3: Link Inform at io n Tab

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2.4 User Interface - Connection Information Tab

The Connection Information window is used to acquire statistics for both transmit and receive operations in the local
or remote network.

2.4.1. Connection Select
CSMA : the Dest inat ion A ddress (DA ) drop- dow n menu may be used to select ALL devices or spe cific devi ces in the

network.
In addition, Channel Access (CA) priority can be defined using the second drop-down menu. The DM allows only
certain valid combi nations that can be selected by the user . The following tab le de s cr i bes t he c om bi nations.

Device Selection Destination Address (DA) Channel Access priority Allowed

Local device All All Yes
Local device Remote device All Y es
Local device Remote device CA0 or CA1 or CA2 or CA3 Yes

Local device Local device Any No
Remote device All All Yes
Remote 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 an d R ece ption Sta tistics

The ‘Transmission and Reception Statis tics’ g rou ps re tu rn oper a tiona l data regarding MPDU’s and packet data un it
handling. Results shown in these fields provide valuable connection quality information.

Transmission Statistics

MPDUs Ack'd MPDUs sent with SACK received

MPDUs Collided MPDUs sent with no SACK received

MPDUs Failed MPDUs sent with SACK ‘out of resources’ received

Reception Statistics

MPDUs Recvd MPDUs received and acknowledged

MPDUs Failed MPDUs not received due to out resour ce s (SA CK se nt)

The ‘Enable Stati stics’ button is used to a cquire the oper ational data a nd the ‘Clear Statistics’ button is used to clear
the fields of dat a. T he va lu es sh own by the Device manager is a cumulative tot a l of the packet data th at w as
collected from the start of either the ‘Enable Statistics’ button or the ‘Clear Statistics’ button click.

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Figure 4: Connection I nf or mation Tab

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2.5 User Interface - QoS Tab

QoS requirements are different for various data types such as streaming video or music, voice and raw data. To
provide higher QoS for streaming data, priority levels can be set using tags at the beginning of data frames. Virtual
Local Area Network (VLAN) 802.1p priority tags on E thernet frames are used to specify 8 (0 – 7) levels of ‘user
priority’. HomePlug AV powerline all ows for 4 levels of Channel Access Prio r it y (CAP (0 – 3)). Ther ef o re, the 8
levels of VLAN Et he rnet tags must be m appe d t o the 4 lev e ls of C AP priority, w her e CA P 3 is t he hig hest pr ior ity and
CAP 0 is the lowest. CAP 3 priority might be used for voice and network management frames, CAP 2 is used for
streaming video and music while CAP 1 and CAP 0 are 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 view s to prov ide simp le channe l access p rior ity (CAP ) classif icati on for indiv idua l 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 address format.

To write these to the PIB, and other QoS related values found on this tab, the Download PIB checkbox found on the
Configuration t a b mu st be che c k ed b efore exercising t he Wr ite button.

2.5.2 Priority Mapping

The ‘Priority Mappin g’ gr oup cont ain s both VLA N and T OS Bit map ping cap abil ity. When selected, pa cket s matc hing
the VLAN or TOS Bit priority will be assigned the Powerline contention priority (Channel Access Priority, CAP) as set
in the corresponding dropdown box. If a packet has both VLAN and TOS in it, VLAN will override TOS.

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2.5.3 Default CAP

The ‘Default CAP’ group allows for default priority mapping of packets that do not h ave a VLAN or TOS bit (or if
these are disabled). Set t in g s are available for Unicas t (dir ec t ed t o a host).

IGMP (default CAP 3):
sets the channel access priority for IGMP frames - these are the group management frames,

not the stream data.
Unicast (default CAP 1):
sets the default c ha nn el a ccess pr io r ity for unicast frames n ot m atching any other cla ss if ic at i on

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 settings, clicking the Write button will commit these, along with the values from the Configuration
tab, to NVRAM on the connected device.

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2.5.4. IGMP

The ‘IGMP’ group includes controls to disable the query timeouts. Checking the ‘Override Defaults’ box will enable
the other boxes as choices.

2.5.5. Priority TTL Value

The ‘Priority TTL Value’ determines the life span (Time to live) of each packet in the buffer of the AV dev ice that will
be sent over the powerl in e su b se que ntly. This value ca n be var ie d f ro m 10 ms ec t o 6500 0 ms ec 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: 20 00 mse c ( us ed f o r TCP data traffic)
CA1 traffic: 2000 mse c ( us ed f or TCP data tr affic)
CA2 traffic: 300 msec (used for UDP vi deo/music traffic)
CA3 traffic: 300 msec (used for VoIP traffic)

Intellon highly recommends that the 300 msec and 2000 msec default settings not be changed because they are
optimized for th e above stated traffic.

Figure 5: QoS Tab

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3. Push Button Setting

There are 2 buttons in this dev ice, one is Reset button the other is Secure button.

Reset: Push this button can reset to the factory default settings. Be careful, when you press the reset butt o n,

please make sure unplug (remove) the Ethernet cabl e (RJ-45cable) first, and then press the reset button.
After press the reset bu t t on (t he tim e need < 3 sec ) an d then wait the PWR LE D light a gai n. Don’ t po wer off
when the devi ce is in reset proces s.

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 stat e” for a device providing the NMK for an exist ing AVLN
“Joiner state” for a device that will join an AVLN
Pushing buttons on any two devices results in one of them becomi n g an “ad d er ” and th e ot he r o n e a “joiner”

Three possible scenarios

Unassociated device joining an existing AVLN

– Two Unassociated devices joining to form a new AVLN
– Special case: one device is a CCo, the other is a STA
Two Associated devices joining to form an AV LN with a new NMK

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Possible Use Case Scenario 1: Unassociated device joining existing AVLN

Possible Use Case Scenario 2: Two devices joining to form new A VLN

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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4. Trouble Shooting

1. Why my utility can not work properly after finish install steps?

Ans:
Please follow th e steps to check the problem.

1. Check the Cont r o l p a nel f or M icr o soft .NET Fram ework install st atus, if you don’t install this, please
install it.

2. Reinstall the utility agai n, you can remove it and reinstall the utility again.

2. What kind of windows OS can install the Powerline utility?

Ans:
Now the Powerline utility only supports Windows 2000, XP and 2003.

3. Why the throughput of Powerline 200M bridge is bad?

Ans:
Please follow th e steps to check the problem.

1. Due to the ma ster/slave structu re, you need to av oi d plu gg i ng two Powerline bri dg e i n t he sa m e ti me,
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 stable?

Ans:
In some respects, User had better to adjust the NB/PC NIC's connection type setting to 100MBaseTx half

duplex while connect to powerline 200M device. It will keep the performance to t he best status and stable.
When user found the link is unstable or not good, please change the NIC's connection type setting to half
duplex.