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Chapter 7 Powerline Network Setup Tutorial

PLA-407 User’s Guide

7.0.2 Important Terms

7.0.3 Accessing Your Powerline Adapter

1 Plug the Powerline adapter you want to add to your network into a Powerline

socket.

Figure 35 Plug Your Powerline Adapter into the Powerline Socket

2 Connect the Powerline adapter to your computer.

3 Use a LAN or Ethernet cable (shown below) to connect the LAN or Ethernet port on

your adapter to the same kind of port on your computer.

Figure 36 Connect Your Powerline Adapter to a Computer

4 Open the PLA-4xx Series Configuration Utility on your computer. Go to Start

> (All) Programs > ZyXEL PLA-4xx Series Configuration > PLA-4xx Series

Configuration Utility, or click on the icon on your desktop shown below.

Figure 37 Click on the PLA-4xx Series Configuration Utility Icon

Network Name The network name allows a Powerline adapter to connect

with other Powerline adapters that have the same network

name. It provides security for your Powerline network. The

network name uses English letters or numbers, from 8 to

64 characters long, with no spaces allowed.

DAK Password DAK = Device Access Key.

The DAK Password lets you access the Powerline adapter.

You can find the DAK Password on a label on your Powerline

device.

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