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Swapping to POE switch (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 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 -3 points 5 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 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's for coax, OP did not mention coax

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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