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PLA5236 User’s Guide
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Intro duc ing the PLA
1.1 O ve rvie w
This chapter introduces the main applications and features of your Zyxel Powerline Wireless 11ac Dual
Band Extender with 1000Mbps PHY rate, which is called “PLA” in this guide. The following generic icon is
used to represent the PLA.
This User’s Guide helps you understand more about how your PLA works and how to configure your
network. The PLA plugs into an ordinary power outlet to easily extend a cable or DSL broadband
connection or existing Ethernet (LAN) network to any other electrical outlet in any room of a house. The
PLA provides a hybrid powerline transmission and Wi-Fi solution, enabling a larger transmission capacity,
all without the need for any new cabling, since power sockets are available everywhere in your home.
With the PLA you can easily set up a wireless network with both IEEE 802.11 b/g/n and IEEE 802.11 a/n/ac
compatible devices. Multiple HD videos can be streamed over an interference-free 5GHz radio band
across the network with no frame loss.
In this User’s Guide the electrical wiring network is referred to as the “powerline network”. You can
directly plug an electrical device (such as a router or computer) into PLA with an AC power pass-
through socket to supply power to the device.
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.