Appendix A Product Specifications

Table 18 Firmware Specifications

FEATURE

DESCRIPTION

Network Name

Change the powerline network name to only allow the powerline

 

adapters you specify to join your network.

 

 

Firmware Upgrade

Download new firmware (when available) from the ZyXEL website and

 

use the configuration utility to install it.

Note: You do not need the configuration utility to install the latest firmware. Follow the instructions in Section 5.4 on page 48 for installing the latest firmware.

Note: Only install firmware for your specific model!

Table 19 Performance

FEATURE

DESCRIPTION

 

Throughput over PHYsical Transport

Supports up to 200

Mbps in half duplex mode

Medium (PHY)

 

 

 

 

 

Throughput over UDP

Supports up to 150

Mbps over in-house power/coaxial

 

lines (LAN port limits to 100 Mbps)

 

 

Number of devices in one powerline

Supports up to 64 devices in 4 network groups

network

 

 

 

 

 

The following list, which is not exhaustive, illustrates the standards supported in the PLA-4xx.

Table 20 Standards Supported

STANDARD

DESCRIPTION

HomePlug AV

Designed for transmitting audio/video on a home powerline network.

 

 

RFC 868

Time Protocol.

 

 

RFC 1112

IGMP v1

 

 

RFC 1157

SNMPv1: Simple Network Management Protocol version 1

 

 

RFC 1901

SNMP v2c Simple Network Management Protocol version 2c

 

 

RFC 2236

Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2.

 

 

Electromagnetic Interference Example

Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) can be introduced to the power circuit by certain appliances such as hair dryers and lamps.

The figure below demonstrates the use of a hair dryer connected to a power circuit with and without an EMI filter. The traffic rates given are example values only.

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