PL1200 and PLP1200 Powerline Utility / Netgear Genie issues

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While we are waiting for Netgear to update their Genie and Powerline Utility to correctly recognise their new PL1200 and PLP1200 powerline adapters, the support software for Zyxel's version of these adapters works perfectly well.

Search for support of Zyxel PLA5405 adapters on their own website.   I used version V7.0.2.14.0611 with my own adapters and can confirm it works.

[grimmace · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the tip, works great.

[grimmace · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the tip, works great.

[grimmace]

Great news! The recent update to Genie, 2.4.16, sees and and allows the PL1200's to be changed. On the network map switch to the powerline view. You can see connection speeds, update PL1200 names, and set the security code. So far so good.

[randomnut1]

Thanks for the tip to find powerline info in Genie. There doesn't appear to be any firmware update option in Genie that I can see. Is there another way to update the PL1200?

[grimmace]

There is no firmware upgrade that I know of. I meant exactly what I said, you can update the names of the devices, that's it. Sorry for any confusion.