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The Pick-a-Plug LED helps you figure out the best wall socket to plug the remote adapter in: red means it can deliver 50Mbps or less, amber means between 50Mbps and 80Mbps and green means the adapter has the best power line signal. The power status light shines green when the adapter is plugged in, amber when it's in energy-saving mode and blinking green when the adapter is setting up security. On top the PL1200S features status lights with helpful color-changing indicators.
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Like most recent power line adapters, the Powerline 1200 lets you add up to 16 wired devices to an existing network using power line connections.
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So generally, the rule of power line networking is you get the amount of adapters equal to the amount of wired clients, plus one.
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After that you just need another adapter for each additional device that you want to add to the power line network. Note that you only need a pair of power line adapters to create the first connection. The adapters now use the electrical wiring in between the two sockets as a network cable. Then plug each adapter into a power socket and you're done. Then connect a second adapter to an Ethernet-ready device, such as a computer, a printer or even a Wi-Fi access point. First you hook up one of the adapters to your existing router (or switch) using a network cable (a short cable included with each adapter). The Powerline 1200 Adapter Kit includes a well-illustrated Quick Start guide but you won't need help setting it up at all.