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Devolo dLAN 85 HSmini User Manual

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17 Security in the dLAN

devolo dLAN 85 HSmini

You can choose between your own password, a ran-
dom password and the default password. To define
your own password with a length of at least eight cha-
racters, enter this into the Network password (min. 8
characters) text field. Alternatively, you can have a ran-
domly selected, highly secure password assigned using
the Random password button. Pressing the Default
password key resets the password of the dLAN adap-
ter to the factory setting. Normally, the display of the
password is hidden for security reasons. If you enable

the option Show characters, the current password is
displayed in legible form in the text field.

The factory default password is HomePlug. Assi-
gning a specific password to a single adapter will ex-
clude it from the remaining dLAN network.

Configuring additional dLAN adapters (fig. 7)

After setting up the local dLAN adapter, you can, if you
want, assign the selected dLAN password to other

fig. 6