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Accessing Your Powerline Adapter, 5.4 Adding a Powerline Adapter

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Chapter 5 Powerline Network Setup Tutorial 5.3 Accessing Your Powerline Adapter 1 Plug the powerline adapter you want to add to your network into a power socket and, if needed, switch the power socket on. Figure 20 Plug Your Powerline Adapter into a Power Socket PLA 1 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 21 Connect Your Powerline Adapter to a Computer 3 2 4 Open the ZyXEL PLA Series Configuration utility on your computer. See Section 4.2 on page 29 for how to launch the utility. 5 You are now ready to extend your powerline network or set up a second network. • See Section 5.4 on page 39 to add a new powerline adapter to your network. • See Section 5.5 on page 41 to set up a second network with your new adapters. • See Section 5.6 on page 43 to set up a second network with your existing adapters. 5.4 Adding a Powerline Adapter This section shows you how to add a new powerline adapter to expand your existing network. The figure below shows the family computer with Internet access on a powerline network. Expand the network by adding a new powerline adapter connected to a printer. PLA Series User's Guide 39

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Chapter 5 Powerline Network Setup Tutorial
PLA Series User’s Guide
39
5.3
Accessing Your Powerline Adapter
1
Plug the powerline adapter you want to add to your network into a power socket and, if needed,
switch the power socket on.
Figure 20
Plug Your Powerline Adapter into a Power 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 21
Connect Your Powerline Adapter to a Computer
4
Open the
ZyXEL PLA Series Configuration
utility
on your computer. See
Section 4.2 on page 29
for how to launch the utility.
5
You are now ready to extend your powerline network or set up a second network.
• See
Section 5.4 on page 39
to add a new powerline adapter to your network.
• See
Section 5.5 on page 41
to set up a second network with your new adapters.
• See
Section 5.6 on page 43
to set up a second network with your existing adapters.
5.4
Adding a Powerline Adapter
This section shows you how to add a new powerline adapter to expand your existing network.
The figure below shows the family computer with Internet access on a powerline network. Expand
the network by adding a new powerline adapter connected to a printer.
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PLA
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