Alright price for what seems to be decent gigabit poe+ switch. Bought one for surveillance cameras.
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if you were after more than one switch, I'd recommend just getting a larger switch. they are more cost affective than buying multiple switches to try to get a discount while being even more capable. My opinion at least.
Yeah agreed - that being said a 5-port 1000Mbps for $4.54 (or even a 5-port 100Mbps for $-0.50) would still be good to have around for example to be used at a different part of your network (e.g.: behind the TV) if you don't have one already.
ahhh I just fully grasped your comment. No yeah 100%, that's a great idea to have some simple, plug and play unmanaged witches is a great idea if you have any type of home network! (and they are effectively free if you were going to buy my post so 100% yes. I don't really need it as I have these laying around at home unused already haha.)
Great addition thanks.
Sometimes big POE switches have fans, which if it’s in a living room or whatever, can be noisy.
Any deals on 2.5GB switches?
I pick some off Ali-express, 2.5gbps POE+ which had been around $110.
keeplink, hasivo, horaco seem to be the goto, I have a keeplink (not poe)and it's running fine. ServeTheHome on youtube look at a lot of these and many of them seem to be rebrands, so… the same thing
Eight PoE+ ports looks like a bargain—until you see the 61W power budget… so you can run a whole two of those PoE ports drawing full power.
Check your power draw before getting this.
Curious what people run off poe for high power consumption like 30w? I have a couple cameras and they are about 4w each.
Wireless Ap's
Not much uses 30w. My unifi nanoHD only uses 4w too. Beefy enterprise AP's use more but I'm guessing users of those aren't the target market for this switch. So, no biggie.
what's a good one then
Should be enough to power 6 or more modern PoE cameras which mostly use under 10W each.
TP Link’s own PTZ cameras are 15W, so you could manage a whole four of those.
This would do two of my Axis cameras, or one camera and one UniFi AP.
Educate me, what might I power with PoE?
Mainly surveillance cameras. At least for me. Some people people also power Access points, Which are Kind of Wi-Fi extenders.
I’m sure there is many more possibilities, but these are the most common uses
As well as those mentioned, you can get PoE splitters to run pretty much any 5v, 12v etc low power devices.
For example, my NBN NTD is installed in the garage and I power it via LAN cable from my PoE switch in my study (giving it UPS backup too)
Got this TP-Link one for around $15 on sale, does 5v, 9v and 12v.
You can run other stuff like android TV boxes but being connected to another powered device you really need isolated splitters.
I was doing so via cheap 5v PoE splitters like these type but was causing issues with the free to air tv signal.
Raspberry Pis are another good use case but again if you connect that Pi to a monitor, you want an isolated splitter. Isolated splitters cost a bit more though.
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Save 10% on any 2 means you can get an overall discount with some items (which aren't particularly useful items) or a very cheap somewhat good item:
Cheap extra item
TP-Link 1000Mbps 5-port (Total $81.53)
TP-Link 1000Mbps 8-port (Total $88.41)
TP-Link 10/100Mbps 8-port (Total $78.20)
Effectively discounts the OP
TP-Link 10/100Mbps 5-port (Total $76.49)
Mercusys wireless USB adapter (Total $76.49)
TP-Link wireless USB adapter (Total $76.49)
All qualifying items
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