Linksys HPRO200 Owner's Manual

HomeLink™Series

Phoneline 10M
Cable/DSL Router

User Guide

Use this guide to install: HPRO200

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physical defects in material and workmanship under normal use for one (1) year from the
date of purchase. If the product proves defective during this warranty period, call Linksys
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FCC STATEMENT

The HomeLink Phoneline 10M Cable/DSL Router has been tested and found to comply
with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These
limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a
residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency
energy and, if not installed and used according to the instructions, may cause harmful
interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference
will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interfer­ence to radio or television reception, which is found by turning the equipment off and on,
the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following
measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna

• Increase the separation between the equipment or device

• Connect the equipment to an outlet other than the receiver’s

• Consult a dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for assistance

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Troubleshooting 30

Common Problems and Solutions 30
Frequently Asked Questions 32

Appendix 36

How to Ping Your ISP’s E-mail & Web Addresses 36
Installing the TCP/IPProtocol 38
Twisted Pair Cabling 41
Crimping Your Own Network Cables 42

Glossary 43

Specifications 48

Environmental 49

Warranty Information 50

Contact Information 51

HomeLink™ Series

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

The Linksys HomeLink Phoneline 10M Cable/DSL Router 1
Features 1
Package Contents 2
System Requirements 2

Getting to Know the HomeLink Phoneline
10M Cable/DSL Router 3

The HomeLink Phoneline Router’s Rear Panel Ports 3
The HomeLink Phoneline Router’s Front Panel LEDs 4

Using the HomeLink Phoneline 10M Cable/DSL Router 7

Installation Overview 7
Connecting the HomeLink Phoneline Router to Your Network 8
Daisy-chaining a HomeLink Network 9
Resetting the HomeLink Phoneline Router 10

Configuring Your Ethernet Network with the
HomeLink Phoneline 10M Cable/DSL Router 11

Configuring the HomeLink Phoneline Router 11
Configuring Your Windows 95 & 98 PCs to Connect to the HomeLink
Phoneline Router 14

The HomeLink Phoneline 10M Cable/DSL
Router’s Web-Based Utility 17

Quick & Easy Administration 17
Setup 18
Password 20
Status 21
DHCP 22
Help 23
Filters 24
Forwarding 25
Dynamic Routing 26
Static Routing 27
DMZ Host 29

Phoneline 10M Cable/DSL Router

• One HomeLink™ Phoneline 10M Cable/DSL Router

• One AC Power Adapter

• One User Guide and Registration Card

• Windows 95, 98, Millennium, NT 4.0, or 2000

• Pentium-Grade CPU or better

• 32 MB of RAM

• Microsoft IE 4.0 or higher, Netscape Navigator 4.06 or higher

• An Ethernet or Home Phoneline Adapter with TCP/IP Protocol for each PC

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Package Contents

System Requirements

Introduction

The HomeLink™ Phoneline 10M Cable/DSL Router provides the perfect solu­tion for connecting to high-speed broadband Internet through your existing
telephone lines. This HomeLink™ Phoneline 10M Cable/DSL Router from
Linksys acts as the only externally recognized Inter net gateway on your Local
Area Network (LAN) and can be configured to regulate internal users’ access
to the Internet and serve as an Internet firewall against unwanted outside
intruders.

Do you want to share your cable or DSL modem on your HomeLink™
Phoneline network? Add a PC anytime by simply connecting it to a telephone
jack in your wall, providing for instant communication throughout your home.
The groundbreaking technology inside every HomeLink™ Phoneline 10M
Cable/DSL Router delivers Internet and network connectivity at speeds of up
to 10Mbps.

• Share Your Cable/DSL Connection with Every PC in Your House Using
Standard Telephone Lines

• Bridge Your Home Phoneline Network to an Ethernet Network and Share
Broadband Access Between Them

• Add a PC to Your Home Network Simply By Plugging Your PC’s Home
Phoneline Network Adapter Into a Standard Phone Jack

• Provides Exceptional Network Security with the Built-In NAT Firewall

• An All-In-One Box for Internet Sharing Through Ethernet and Home
Phoneline Networks

• Easy Manageability Through Your Web Browser

• Secure Your Network With Network Address Translation (NAT)

• Works With Your PC’s Home Phoneline Network Adapter to Create an
Internet-Sharing Home Network

• Supports Port Filtering, IP Filtering, and MAC Filtering

• Built-In Ethernet-to-Home Phoneline Network Bridge for Local Computer
Connections

• Fully HomePNA 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0-Compatible

• Easy Installation—No Software Required

• Free Technical Support—24 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week for North America
Only

• 1-Year Limited Warranty

The Linksys HomeLink™ Phoneline 10M Cable/DSL Router

Features

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HomeLink™ Series

Phoneline 10M Ethernet Bridge

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Getting to Know the HomeLink
Phoneline 10M Cable/DSL
Router

Rear Panel Ports

Phone Use this port for connecting your telephone. It employs a

microfilter for signal clarity. Do not plug your telephone into
any of the other ports.

HPNA Use the HPNA ports to connect your Home Phoneline Router

to your HomeLink network. These ports are configured as
pass-through ports, meaning that the network data travels into
the Home Phoneline Router through one of the HomeLink
ports, then continues out the other. Connect one HomeLink
telephone cable into one of the ports, then continue (with
another cable) to your next HomeLink device through the
port's other side.

LAN Connect an Ethernet PC (or an Ethernet device) to your

HomeLink phoneline network through one of the HomeLink
Phoneline Router’s 10BaseT ports.

WAN Share your Internet access over your entire Home Phoneline or

Ethernet network by connecting to your DSL or Cable modem
through the Home Phoneline Router’s WAN port. The Uplink
port can also connect to Ethernet devices such as hubs, routers,
and switches. If the Uplink por t is used, the port right next to
it (LAN) will be inoperable. Any connections made through a
LAN will be lost.

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HomeLink™ Series

The HomeLink Phoneline Router’s Rear Panel Ports

Crossover Switch The Crossover Switch (X II) toggles the LAN port

between crossover mode (X) and straight-through mode
(II). If you are connecting the Router directly to a com­puter or to an Uplink port, choose crossover (X). For any­thing else, choose straight-through (II).

Power Connect your power adapter to your HomeLink

Phoneline Router through the Power port.

The Reset Button

*

Briefly pressing the Reset Button will refresh the HomeLink
Phoneline Router’s connections, potentially clearing any jammed
links.

Pressing the Reset Button and holding it in for a few seconds will clear all of
the HomeLink Phoneline Router’s data and settings. This should be done only
if you are experiencing heavy routing problems, and only after you have
exhausted all of the other troubleshooting options. By resetting the HomeLink
Phoneline Router, you run the risk of creating conflicts between your PCs’
actual IP Addresses and what the HomeLink Phoneline Router thinks their IP
Addresses should be. You may be forced to reboot the entire system(s).

If your HomeLink Phoneline Router locks up, simply power it down for 3 to 5
seconds by removing the power cable from the Router’s Power Port. Leaving
the power off for too long could result in the loss of network connections.

Power The Power LED will light up when the HomeLink

Phoneline Router is powered on. Note that there is no
ON/OFF switch; simply plug in the power adapter.

The LAN Indicators

Link/Act Green. The Link/Act LED serves two purposes. If the

LED is continuously illuminated, the HomeLink
Phoneline Router is successfully connected to a device. If
the LED is flickering, the Router is actively sending or
receiving data over that port.

Full/Col Green. The Full/Col LED also serves two purposes. If

this LED is continuously illuminated, the connection is
successfully running in Full Duplex mode. If the LED is
flickering, the connection is experiencing collisions.
Infrequent collisions are normal. If this LED is flickering
too often, there may be a problem with your connection.
Check the Troubleshooting section if you think there is a
problem.

100 Orange. The 100 LED illuminates when a successful

100Mbps connection is made through the corresponding
port.

Linksys HomeLink™ Series

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Phoneline 10M Cable/DSL Router

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The HomeLink Phoneline Router’s Front Panel LEDs

The WAN Indicators

Link Green. The Link LED illuminates when a successful

connection is made between the HomeLink Phoneline
Router and your Broadband device or network.

Act Green. The Act LED flickers when the HomeLink

Phoneline Router is sending or receiving data over the
broadband port.

Diag Red. The Diag LED illuminates when the HomeLink

Phoneline Router goes through its self-diagnosis mode
during boot-up. It will turn off upon successful comple­tion of the diagnosis. If this LED stays on for an abnor­mally long period of time, refer to the Troubleshooting
section.

The HPNA Indicators

Link A Link LED will light up when the port successfully

connects to your phoneline network.

Act Green. The Act LED flickers when the HomeLink

Phoneline Router is sending or receiving data over the
HPNA port.

Col If the Col LED is flickering, the connection is experienc-

ing collisions. Infrequent collisions are normal. If this
LED is flickering too often, there may be a problem with
your connection. Check the Troubleshooting section if
you think there is a problem.

The following instructions will have your HomeLink Phoneline Router up and
running in minutes.

Basic Installation

1. Make sure that every component of your network (including any PCs

and the HomeLink Phoneline Router) is powered off.

2. Connect your Ethernet device to the HomeLink Phoneline Router

through the HomeLink Phoneline Router’s LAN port. If you have several
Ethernet devices, connect the HomeLink Phoneline Router to a 10/100
Ethernet hub or switch. Ethernet devices should be connected to the
HomeLink Phoneline Router with a network cable that is less than 100
meters (328 feet) in length.

3. Connect the network cable from your Cable or DSL modem to the WAN

port on the rear of the HomeLink Phoneline Router.

4. Connect the HomeLink Phoneline Router to the HomeLink netw orkby

connecting telephone cable, plugged into your home’s telephone jacks, to
one of the HomeLink Phoneline Router’s HPNA ports. The entire length of
telephone cable used in a HomeLink network should never exceed 300
meters (1000 feet). An addition HPN A port and LAN port is provided if you
prefer to daisy-chain the PCs in your home network. For more detailed
information on daisy chaining, see the next page.

5. Power everything on. Connect the supplied power cord to the power
adapter, then to the Power port on the rear of the Homelink Phoneline
Router. Plug the power cord into an electrical outlet.

The HomeLink Phoneline 10M Cable/DSL Router installation is now

complete.

Using the HomeLink Phoneline
10M Cable/DSL Router

Since the HomeLink Phoneline 10M Cable/DSL Router is a stand-alone device
that requires no software or system configuration, its setup involves nothing
but plugging everything in and turning all your hardware on. However, there
are a few limitations to the amount of physical distance y our network can cover
without running the risk of data corruption. These restrictions are due to Home
Phoneline and Ethernet standard limits on the recommended length of your net­working cables, as shown below.

Ethernet Cabling

Although there are different grades of Ethernet network cabling, you should
use UTP Category 5 (unshielded twisted-pair) cables for each Ethernet con­nection you make, and no Ethernet cable should exceed 100 meters (328 feet)
in length. Category 5 cabling is available at most computer stores, or you can
crimp your own network cables. See the Crimping Your Own Network
Cables section of the Appendix for details on crimping.

HomeLink Phoneline Cabling

Due to the limitations of standard telephone cables, HomeLink phoneline
devices require that no network of HomeLink cabling exceeds a total length of
300 meters (1000 feet). In other words, if you have more than 500 feet of tele­phone wires connecting your network, you will be more likely to experience
data loss.

Any standard telephone cable will do.

Phoneline 10M Cable/DSL Router

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Connecting the HomeLink Phoneline Router to Your Network

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: Power everything off before connecting PCs to the
HomeLink Phoneline Router. If both the PC and the Router are
powered on when the initial connection is made, the network may
act erratically and you will have to reset the Router.

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HomeLink™ Series

Installation Overview

If your network connections be gins acting erratically, you ma y w ant to reset the
Homelink Phoneline Router.

To reset your Homelink Phoneline Router, do the following:

1. Shut down all of your network components.

2. Disconnect the Homelink Phoneline Router’s power supply and wait five
seconds.

3. Plug the Homelink Phoneline Router’s power supply back into the power
outlet.

Daisy-chaining your HomeLink PCs and peripherals can create a simple net­work that acts in the same way an Ethernet network acts on your PC's desktop.

While Ethernet networks usually revolve in a star topology around a hub or
switch, phoneline networks link together like a string of Christmas lights. In a
HomeLink network, data passes into on one side of a port, and a new telephone
cable continues out from the port’s other side. You can string up to 30 PCs on
a single HomeLink network, provided that the entire length of cable does not
exceed 300 meters (1000 feet).

HomeLink networks can send data through existing telephone lines without
disrupting your telephone service, connecting over your existing telephone
jacks. If you have PCs on two different floors of your house, plug one of the
downstairs PCs into the phone jack in the wall, and you're able to network your
PCs upstairs without running excessive amounts of extra cable.

Phoneline 10M Cable/DSL Router

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Resetting the HomeLink Phoneline Router

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HomeLink™ Series

Daisy-chaining a HomeLink Network

3. The HomeLink
Phoneline 10M
Cable/DSL
Router’s Setup
page will appear.

4. Configure the following values.

Router Name & Domain Name These f ields allow you to supply a host

and domain name for the HomeLink Phoneline Router. Some ISPs require
these names as identification. You may have to check with your ISP to see
if your Broadband Internet service has been conf igured with a host and
domain name. In most cases, leaving these fields blank will work.

Configuring Your Ethernet
Network with the HomeLink
Phoneline 10M Cable/DSLRouter

Now that your HomeLink Phoneline Router is wired into your network, you
can begin configuring your system.

1. Open your web browser and type

http://192.168.1.1 in the browser’s Address
box. This number is the default IP address of the
HomeLink Phoneline Router. Press the Enter key.

2. A username and passwor d prompt will appear. Leave the User Name bo x
empty and type admin (the def ault password) in the Password box. Click
the OK button.

Phoneline 10M Cable/DSL Router

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If you have previously enabled an Internet Sharing
Proxy Service on any of your PCs, you must disable it
now.

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tinue.

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HomeLink™ Series

Configuring the HomeLink Phoneline Router

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If the TCP/IP
protocol is not con­figured on your PC,
go to the Appendix
for TCP/IP installa­tion instructions now.