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Swapping to POE switch (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by westingham@sh.itjust.works to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

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I live in a house that has CAT 5 cable in the walls running to wall plates in various rooms.

Would it be possible to remove the existing regular switch, replace it with a powered POE switch, and then plug in a POE device into one of the wall plates?

Also, for the non-POE devices already plugged into wall plates, would they be okay?

I'm trying to wrap my head around the interoperability of POE and non-POE and struggling.

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[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Check out MoCA adapters. You need one for each wall plate you want to convert and one for the modem side. Check out this site for a diagram and more info.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's for coax, OP did not mention coax

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Oh man, must’ve been pre-coffee brain. Thanks for the correction.