Bridging CD-R King's New Powerline Ethernet

CD-R King is known for their low cost gadgets & other items here in the Philippines. I am here to just add how you can use their new Powerline Ethernet to extend your Wifi and / or LAN cables in your Home or Small Office.

To start, what will you need?

• CD-R King's "Internet Through Power Outlet + Wi-Fi (Powerline Ethernet)" : Code COM-NET025-CC
• Working internet connection
• Extra outlets located near your Router and a PC / Laptop

So what does CD-R King's Powerline Ethernet do? Well, it basically functions like a LAN cable extension with another wireless router at the other end. The main difference though is that you will just use your power outlets to extend the network rather than using a very long LAN cable that can be bothersome and disturbing to see.

So this article is to explain how I bridged the connections connected to the main router with those connected to the Powerline Ethernet to make it function much like an extension of your LAN cables and a repeater for your WIFI.

So why bridge? Bridging is practical for the specific purpose of extending a particular network to a different type of network. e.g. There is a wired network and a wireless network. If there is a device that is connected to both networks, bridging the two networks through this device will make all devices in both networks visible to each other and even possible to interact with each other.

So this is how I did it:

1. Simply follow the instructions in the manual of the Powerline Ethernet for physical installation. You can base your physical setup with mine, which is the following:
• I plugged in the single port powerline in to the extra outlet near the router.
• It's only LAN port is connected to my router's LAN port.
• I plugged in the 2 port with wifi powerline in to the extra outlet near the PC / laptop.
• The 2 LAN ports are connected to my PC's Ethernet port and my Epson M200 network printer / scanner. (Powerline Wifi will be turned on to extend WIFI to this part of our office.)
2. Turn on your PC / Laptop that is LAN connected to the 2 port powerline.
3. Go to internet explorer / google chrome / etc...
4. Type in "192.168.12.1" in the web address.
5. Type in the default username and password to login. (Default is user: admin, password: admin)
6. At the display, I clicked Internet Setup and change some configurations:
• I changed Connection Type to Bridge.
• Do not put checks in the Port Binding LAN Port and WLAN Port options.
7. Next, you can click Wireless Setup, then click Wireless Basic.
8. Change the following in the screen to extend your wifi:
• Leave the Enable Wireless Interface checked.
• Change the Wireless Network Name (SSID) to that of the same broadcasted wifi SSID by your wireless router.
9. Next, you can click Wireless Setup again, but then click Wireless Security.
10. Change it into the same wireless security mode that your wireless router is using...most wireless routers are using WPA/WPA2-PSK.
• Change the Pre-Shared Key into the password of the wifi network you want to extend.
11. After go to LAN Setup and remove the check in the Enable DHCP Server.

Important: All instructions from this point forward should be done when you completed all of the above. This is because you will no longer be able to access 192.168.12.1 after doing the next steps.

1. Go to MAINTENANCE and click Backup and Restore.
2. There, click reboot and wait out the timer.
3. This should do it, but establishment of the settings will not be immediate. Once fully established, you will notice that you will no longer be able to access 192.168.12.1 in the web browser.
4. You might think we are finished but...hold on...you still will not be able to connect to the internet. This is because your Powerline Ethernet settings might be in place, but your router still does not detect the changes. This can take forever to wait out.
5. To hasten the establishment of your bridged connection, go to Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network Connections.
6. Right-click ethernet and click properties.
7. Look for IPv4 in the middle. Left-click it, then look for and click the Properties button.
8. Click the "Use the following IP address" button and type in any of the following sample IP addresses, "192.168.1.1" or "192.168.1.2". Then press the Ok button.
9. You will see at the bottom right of your screen that your network connection will have an exclamation point. Right-click it and click troubleshoot problems.
10. Wait for a prompt. It should say, "DHCP is not enabled for Ethernet" and you will have the option to click, "Try these repairs as an administrator". Click it.
11. Wait for the next prompt saying, "Automatically update your network settings". Click "Apply this fix".
12. And, VOILA! You will see that troubleshooting is finished and that your connection is now established. Click close and you can now browse the internet and see all the network devices in your bridged network.

You should be able to access internet and other network PCs / Laptops / Shared Printers  and Wireless Printer or scanners.

Do comment if you had any problems...thank you. Hope this helps some of you out there.

Fix to Internet Explorer Prompt - "Application blocked by security settings your security settings have blocked an untrusted..."

This is a simple prompt that is easy to fix. I received this error when I applied for a PLDT myHome and Consumer Bills online account, to see my bills online.

When I opened my bills I always get an "application blocked" prompt. I just click continue but I cannot download the bill. I can only view it. Fixing it made it possible for me to download the bill.

The one blocking the app is Java. So the fix is to go into it's options and configure it.

1. Java configurations can be accessed by either typing "Configure Java" in the start menu or going to Java in the program listing of the start menu and locating it.
2. After the Java window pops up, simply click the Security tab and press the "Edit Site List".
3. Press Add first, then type in the website shown in the "application blocked" prompt. Press Add again. It will then be included in the Exception Site list.
4. Open the bill again after restarting your internet explorer / browser. You will be asked by a prompt asking to run a program. Press Run. This is always asked every time this window is opened.
5. You will see something different at the bottom. But now you can use and press the download button above. Try it...

 The Java window should look like this:

Hope this helped some people.

Fixed (Catalyst Control Center cannot be started. There are currently no settings that can be configured...)

Hi guys, I encountered a problem with my ATI Radeon HD 4670 Video Card when I reformatted my PC from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1. I downloaded the 13.9 Legacy Driver from the AMD / ATI website. After installing the driver, I expected to get a prompt to restart the PC because that is what normally happens when installing a Video Card driver...but in this case, I did not. So I was already thinking something is fishy. So I checked the notification icons for the ATI / AMD icon, I saw no icon. I right clicked on the desktop screen and saw the usual Catalyst Control Center option. I clicked it and as I expected...an error prompt, "Catalyst Control Center cannot be started. There are currently no settings that can be configured..."

Disturbed already...I still went on my reformatting...but as I installed Adobe Creative Suite...I got a whole lot of errors...most of which pointing to system / PC requirements not being met...So this brought me to think it had something to do with the ATI Video Card.

Searching in the internet, I found some suggested fixes that worked for some...but not for me. To list them down, these are:

1. Manually updating the display driver in the device manager. By pointing the driver installation to the downloaded ATI driver.
2. Another is installing "ccc2_install.exe" to C:\Program Files\AMD\CCC2\Install. (I cannot find the program.)
3. Last is basically uninstalling the Video Card Driver and complete software and then using an AMD Clean Uninstall executable file.

After so many searches...I decided to use CPU-Z to determine the exact video card name and model because some downloaded drivers can be for a series like ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series for my ATI Radeon HD 4670. I looked up for a solution and still got the same results. So I decided to combine everything that I got above...and fixed my problem...

Simply, this is what I did:

1. I downloaded the latest ATI Radeon HD 4670 driver from the AMD website.
2. I also downloaded AMD Clean Uninstall Utility 1.4.0.0 from softpedia.
3. I uninstalled AMD from the Program and Features of Control Panel.
• Picking the express uninstall option.
4. After I deleted the AMD folder in the C: drive. (You can also delete all the files in the %temp% folder. - Type %temp% in the start menu search.)
5. I ran the AMD Clean Uninstall Utility and restarted.
6. I then, went on to install the latest 13.9 Legacy driver (latest as of this time) I previously got from the AMD site.
7. At the end of the installation, I got an error prompt showing not all programs installed and there was a link to a log of the installed programs. Clicking it, I saw that everything installed except only one program, the driver.
8. So I manually opened the device manager and uninstalled the display driver.
9. After, I reupdated the display driver and pointed it here: C:\AMD\. (This should be done after steps 6 to 7.)
10. I finally opened the Catalyst Control Center from the context menu at the desktop screen.

I do not know if this will work for you but I am just saying this worked for me...Hope this also works for many of you. Good luck!