Chapter 1 Introducing the PLA
1.2 LEDs
The following sections describes the lights on the PLA.
The following figure is the front panel of the PLA. Use the lights to determine if the PLA is behaving normally or if there are some problems on your powerline network.
Figure 1 PLA Lights
The following table describes the behavior of the lights on the PLA.
Table 2 LEDs: 200 Mbps Models
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| Blinking | The PLA is starting up. |
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| It also indicates the PLA is trying to connect with another |
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| device using the ENCRYPT function. |
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| The Power LED blinks when it is in standby mode. Refer to |
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| Off | The PLA is not receiving power. |
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HomePlug |
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| Green | On | The PLA detects another powerline adapter. The data transfer |
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| rate is greater than 40 Mbps. |
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| Amber |
| The PLA detects another powerline adapter. The data transfer |
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| rate is between 12~40 Mbps. |
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| Red |
| The PLA detects another powerline adapter. The data transfer |
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| rate is between 0~12 Mbps. |
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| Green/ | Blinking | The PLA is communicating with another powerline adapter. |
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| Data is being transmitted and/or received. |
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| Off | The HomePlug port does not detect another powerline |
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| Green | On | The ETHERNET port is on and ready and the PLA detects a |
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| Blinking | The PLA is communicating with a networking device |
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| Off | The PLA does not detect any devices connected to its |
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