Chapter 5 The Configuration Utility

Click Network Info to display the following screen.

Figure 18 Network Info Screen

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 4 Network Info Screen

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Adapter

This field identifies which Powerline network information is displayed.

 

Different Powerline networks are identified by the Ethernet interface

 

(network card) connected directly to the PLA-407. Typically there is only

 

one connection, however, if your computer has two network cards and

 

both are connected to a PLA-407, then you have two Powerline networks.

 

 

Central

The Central Coordinator of the Powerline network is the Powerline adapter

Coordinator

which keeps track of which devices are part of the network as well as

MAC

synchronizes communication within the Powerline network. If the Central

 

Coordinator is removed from the Powerline network then another

 

Powerline adapter takes its place. This field displays the MAC address of

 

the PLA-407 which is the Central Coordinator of the Powerline network.

 

The Powerline adapters in your Powerline network automatically select the

 

Central Coordinator.

 

 

The information provided in the following table reflects transmission rate information about the Powerline adapters which communicate in your Powerline network.

Site

This field displays:

•Local, if it is the PLA-407 directly connected to the computer running the configuration utility.

•Remote, if it is a PLA-407 in your Powerline network but not directly connected to the computer running the configuration utility.

MAC Address This field displays the MAC address of your Powerline adapter. The MAC address of your Powerline adapter can be found by looking at the label on your device. It consists of six pairs of hexadecimal characters (hexadecimal characters are “0-9” and “a-f”). In the case of the PLA-407, this label is on the bottom of the device.

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