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Is there a reliable outdoor-mounted PoE switch
Posted on 2/17/19 at 3:04 pm
Posted on 2/17/19 at 3:04 pm
Some background:
I've been slowly wiring my house with Ethernet as the need arises. I have fireblock studs which have hampered some of my progress, particularly in my office where I have a desktop that I would prefer be hardwired, namely because it's a little farther from the APs, would be a great place to have an additional AP, and I'm planning on using it as a pretty limited photo server (digital picture frames/TVs) and would just prefer the reliability.
I basically have 3 options:
1) it has an exterior wall with space between the brick and the interior wall that would be easy to drop a line, but it would require the drop be about 6 feet from the computer and that I drill through a built in bookshelf
Next scenario: two phone lines seem to have been run since the house was built. Cat5e was used for both of them. One terminates at the desk in the office. The other terminates upstairs where I already have an Ethernet drop
So the other options are:
2) in the outdoor telephone box, terminate the two cat5e together and put a switch upstairs so it acts as if I just terminated the downstairs office upstairs instead of in the central closet. It would probably run about about 70ft to the switch, the switch would be coming over cat6a, probably about a 30ft run from the "central closet).
3) run a central closet line to the telephone box/outside wall. I've got 2x free 802.3at 1000bit ports on the router. I'm leaning towards this, but I don't really know what sort of outdoor-mounted PoE switches there are and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations? The one I keep finding is a Ubiquiti option that is pretty cheap. It would require their PoE adapter instead of my router which is fine, but I just don't know about the reliability of a switch in that application
Any thoughts or advice are, as always, greatly appreciated.
I've been slowly wiring my house with Ethernet as the need arises. I have fireblock studs which have hampered some of my progress, particularly in my office where I have a desktop that I would prefer be hardwired, namely because it's a little farther from the APs, would be a great place to have an additional AP, and I'm planning on using it as a pretty limited photo server (digital picture frames/TVs) and would just prefer the reliability.
I basically have 3 options:
1) it has an exterior wall with space between the brick and the interior wall that would be easy to drop a line, but it would require the drop be about 6 feet from the computer and that I drill through a built in bookshelf
Next scenario: two phone lines seem to have been run since the house was built. Cat5e was used for both of them. One terminates at the desk in the office. The other terminates upstairs where I already have an Ethernet drop
So the other options are:
2) in the outdoor telephone box, terminate the two cat5e together and put a switch upstairs so it acts as if I just terminated the downstairs office upstairs instead of in the central closet. It would probably run about about 70ft to the switch, the switch would be coming over cat6a, probably about a 30ft run from the "central closet).
3) run a central closet line to the telephone box/outside wall. I've got 2x free 802.3at 1000bit ports on the router. I'm leaning towards this, but I don't really know what sort of outdoor-mounted PoE switches there are and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations? The one I keep finding is a Ubiquiti option that is pretty cheap. It would require their PoE adapter instead of my router which is fine, but I just don't know about the reliability of a switch in that application
Any thoughts or advice are, as always, greatly appreciated.
Posted on 2/17/19 at 3:42 pm to Hopeful Doc
Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch
I've never had a bad experience with any Ubiquiti equipment and I use them at work all the time.
We used EdgeSwitches (ToughSwitch back in the day) at a hotel deployment and they've been running without a hitch for 5 years.
I've never had a bad experience with any Ubiquiti equipment and I use them at work all the time.
We used EdgeSwitches (ToughSwitch back in the day) at a hotel deployment and they've been running without a hitch for 5 years.
Posted on 2/17/19 at 10:21 pm to Hopeful Doc
I don't understand the need for another switch. If you run a line from your wiring closet to the telephone box, you can slice that together with the line running from the telephone box to your office. Use the free POE port on your router to power the AP in your office.
Posted on 2/17/19 at 10:26 pm to TAMU-93
Good point. That thought hadn't crossed my mind- I can just run two lines to the box or just splice the one to my office and leave the unused telephone line upstairs alone.
I'm stupid sometimes.
I'm stupid sometimes.
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