Accessing Your Powerline Adapter; Adding A Powerline Adapter - ZyXEL Communications PLA4231 User Manual

6.3 Accessing Your Powerline Adapter

Plug the powerline adapter you want to add to your network into a power socket and, if needed,
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switch the power socket on.
Figure 19 Plug Your Powerline Adapter into a Power Socket
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Connect the powerline adapter to your computer.
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Use a LAN or Ethernet cable (shown below) to connect the LAN or Ethernet port on your adapter to
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the same kind of port on your computer.
Figure 20 Connect Your Powerline Adapter to a Computer
Open the ZyXEL PLA Series Configuration utility on your computer. See
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for how to launch the utility.
You are now ready to extend your powerline network or set up a second network.
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• See Section 6.4 on page 43
• See Section 6.5 on page 45
• See Section 6.6 on page 47

6.4 Adding a Powerline Adapter

This section shows you how to add a new powerline adapter to expand your existing network.
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to add a new powerline adapter to your network.
to set up a second network with your new adapters.
to set up a second network with your existing adapters.
Chapter 6 Powerline Network Setup Tutorial
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Section 5.2 on page 33
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