It does not connect to the mains, this unit connects to a newly installed 50a breaker (not shared with oven or A/C as I often see). There are also ground (green) and neutral (white) that need to be hooked up to neutral and ground bars. If your panel is a main panel then this is same location. If you have a disconnect (giant switch) next to your electrical meter then the neutral and grounds are separate bars.

The leads are about 2' long. If in an unfinished area you pick whichever knock out is most central so that all leads reach to where they should go with out extending the wires which voids warranty and makes it less effective.

Often times this can mean rearranging breakers and relabelling panel label to get everything to reach. Ideally you want to locate your new 50a breaker on first spot down from the main as well,

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Ideally you want to locate your new 50a breaker on first spot down from the main as well,

I understand that it doesn't connect to the mains but I looked up the data sheet on it and it mentioned what you wrote above and there was also something about also locating the device itself as close to the new breaker as well which in my case, would be on the upper side of the panel.

So I gather that as long as the leads are long enough to reach the new breaker at one of the top spots within the panel without extending them, it would be OK to mount the device at the bottom of panel?

Back in Business with nothing new needed to be purchased.

I kept working backwards testing the Airport Express.
Removing a link in the chain at a time until I found the disconnect.
My network switch must have gotten tripped and was giving bad IP addresses hence the reason the camera would not work nor the express.
Bypassed the switch and everything was rolling. Unplugged it for a bit and back in we are up and rolling.

I sure wish I could have wired this house. Not come in after the fact and work with what I had. Quite the convoluted set of wiring switch backs.

Modem, to Extreme, to 2 switches (one firing upstairs Ethernet ports, 1 downstairs), express plugged into one of those to extend the wifi range downstairs.