Gateway PLU-300 - Manual (Page 3)

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Contents
1 Setting Up Your Powerline Adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Step 1: Installing the hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . 2
Installing the Powerline adapter driver . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Step 2: Adding the computer to the network . . . . . . . . . . 8
About network configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Naming the computers and the workgroup . . . . . . 10
Step 3: Configuring the TCP/IP protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Setting up a DHCP IP address for each computer . 21
Turning the powerline adapter off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Where to go from here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using your network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using the Powerline Adapter Configuration Utility . 27
2 Sharing Your Network Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Sharing an Internet connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Sharing drives and printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Turning on Windows file and printer sharing . . . . . 38
Sharing drives or folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Un-sharing drives, folders, and files . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Sharing printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Using the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Viewing shared drives and folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Mapping a Network Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Opening files across the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Copying files across the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Printing files across the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
3 Using the Powerline Adapter Configuration Utility . . 47
About the Powerline configuration utility . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Using the Device tab settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Using the Network tab settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Using the Security tab settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Using the Advanced tab settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
4 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Automated troubleshooting system . . . . . . . . . . . . 58