Connecting Wireless LAN and Network Devices
With your wireless and network devices you can use FRITZ!Powerline 540E as an
access point to your home network and your Internet router.
This is how to connect your wireless LAN devices, like smartphones or laptops, which
support the fast connection method WPS, with FRITZ!Powerline 540:
Press the WLAN • WPS button on FRITZ!Powerline 540E for about one second until
1.
it starts fl ashing.
2.
Start WPS on your wireless LAN device within two minutes.
If your wireless LAN device does not support the
quick connection method WPS:
1.
Remove FRITZ!Powerline 540E from the outlet
and take note of the network key printed on the
back of the device.
2.
Start the WLAN software on your wireless LAN
device and enter the network key there.
If you would like to use a wired network device:
Connect your network device to one of the LAN
sockets on FRITZ!Powerline 540E using a LAN
cable.
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These values are examples. Do
not
adopt these values in your settings.
The FRITZ!Powerline 540E User Interface
Open the FRITZ!Powerline 540E user interface in your web browser by entering
fritz.powerline, if FRITZ!Powerline 540E is connected with a FRITZ!Box.
192.168.178.2, if FRITZ!Powerline 540E is not connected with a router yet.
the
<IP
address>. The IP address is assigned by your Internet router as soon as one
or more FRITZ!Powerline 540E are located in your home network.
In the user interface you can, for instance, configure wireless LAN settings, switch
on and off wireless LAN, Powerline and the LEDs, change the operating mode, or
perform a FRITZ!OS update.
Switching Operating Modes
FRITZ!Powerline 540E can work in diff erent operating modes.
By changing the operating mode you can transform FRITZ!Powerline 540E into a
plain wireless repeater to expand your wireless radio network, or into a LAN bridge
to extend your Ethernet home wiring. The operating mode can be switched in the
FRITZ!Powerline 540E user interface
Please also see the information in the FRITZ!Powerline 540E PDF manual at
avm.de/en/service
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