Adding Adapters To Your Network - NETGEAR XAVB5501 User Manual

XAV5501 Powerline AV+ 500 Adapter User Manual

Adding Adapters to Your Network

Once the first adapter is installed and connected to your router, you can easily add adapters
into your network.
To add Powerline adapters:
1. Be sure the first Powerline adapter is connected to your router.
2. Plug additional Powerline adapters into power outlets near the other computers and
additional peripheral devices to be included in your Powerline network.
3. Use the gray Ethernet cable from the XAV5501
package to connect from the
to an Ethernet port located on the other
computer or peripheral device.
4. Wait for each Powerline adapter to be
recognized by the Powerline network.
The Power, Ethernet, and Powerline LEDs
should turn on. This could take as little as 5
seconds, or up to 80 seconds. For details
about how the LEDs work, see
page 6.
5. Test to make sure that each computer
connected to a Powerline XAV5501 Adapter can
access the Powerline network.
For example, be sure that you can access the
Internet from a remote computer.
One way to test this is to install the Powerline
utility and use it to view all the computers
connected by the Powerline AV Ethernet adapter.
CAUTION:
NETGEAR recommends that you secure your Powerline network from
unauthorized access. This is especially relevant in settings such as
apartment buildings. See
page 10.
Powerline adapter
Table 1 on
Understanding Powerline Network Security
Chapter 1. Installation and Basic Configuration
Figure 4. Add an adapter
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