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Connect one power line adapter to a router or switch on the first Ethernet network and assign a password (for example “Password1”) to this power line adapter. Add additional power line adapters to your network by plugging them into your power line outlets and assigning them “Password1”. This completes the configuration of your first power line network.
Connect another power line adapter to a router or switch on the second Ethernet network and assign a different password (for example “Password2”) to this power line adapter. Again, add additional power line adapters and assign them “Password2”.
You now have two private networks on your power line circuit. Information is not shared between the two networks as only power line adapters with the same password can communicate with each other.
1.2.1 Passwords in the Power Line Network
You use two types of passwords in the power line network. The following table describes the differences between the passwords.
Table 1 Password Summary
PASSWORD | DESCRIPTION |
Private Network | All power line adapters that follow the HomePlug AV standard are |
Password | shipped with the same power line network password “HomePlug”. |
| Change this password via the |
| Utility to create a private network. See Section 3.3 on page 24. |
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DAK (Data Access | In order to manage the power line adapters on your power line |
Key) Password | network you must enter the adapters’ DAK password in the |
| Series Configuration Utility. This password is printed on the power |
| line adapter itself. |
| You don’t need to add the password for the power line adapter |
| directly connected to the computer running the configuration utility |
| (local power line adapter), you only have to add the remote power |
| line adapters’ passwords (those on your circuit, but not directly |
| connected to your computer). |
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