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Will Power over Ethernet (PoE) function properly if I utilize this wall socket depicted in the attached image? It appears to be similar to a keystone, resembling a network jack with wall-mounting capabilities. I am contemplating using the Dream Machine Special Edition along with a couple of Camera G4 Pro devices, but I want to ensure compatibility before making an investment. My plan is to run Cat6 cable from the Dream Machine to this wall plate, then connect it to another plate in a different room, and finally link the camera via another Cat6 cable. I'll have two of these wall plates in use, so I just want confirmation that this setup will indeed work. If anyone has encountered a similar situation, could you please advise if this configuration is viable?

I'm in the process of setting up a security camera system for my new house and could use some expert advice. I'm considering going with Ubiquiti, but I'm a bit lost when it comes to the technical details. Here's what I have in mind: 1. 1 camera for the balcony 2. 1 camera for the parking area 3. 2 cameras facing outside the home Total 4 cameras running on PoE 4. Wi-Fi extenders/mesh running on PoE to cover areas with weak Wi-Fi signals My house has LAN sockets in every part, and I'd like to keep the footage recording locally. Could you please help me with: - What specific Ubiquiti products should I consider for this setup? - Do I need to pay a monthly subscription fee to Ubiquiti after purchasing their equipment, or is it free for a lifetime? Any advice or recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.

Can Power over Ethernet (PoE) function effectively with in-wall sockets positioned between the PoE switch and cameras/other devices in a network that includes two sockets? I've attached an image of the socket used for reference.

So Long story short. My understanding of SFP is very limited. I bought some Mellanox Cards a couple years ago to connect my UnRaid Server to my desktop. They worked okay for a little bit but stopped using them. I just bought a 48 POE Managed 3com Switch off ebay and I want to know what I have to do to make the two work together like they should. The Cards are Mellanox MNPA19-XTR The switch is a 3COM Switch 4800G 48 Port PWR PoE Switch 3CRS48G-48P-91 Please educate me lol

Hey i need some help with my home network. Recently moved in a house and the internal cable routing options are basically "none". All cables ethernet/coaxial/optical are routed outside of the house fixed to the wall, and holes were drilled . Right now the setup is pretty disappointing, a wifi router from the network provider on the ground floor and a xiaomi wifi switch for three desktops and a notebook upstairs. But my room where my pc notebooks and smart tv are located are downstairs, on the other side of the house as the router, and for a pc 8/1mbps wifi is just not enough (we pay for gigabit). As all cables are routed outside on the walls i'd like to insert a 2-5 port POE switch somewhere outside under the eaves in a water-free place so i can have ethernet downstairs on the other side of the house. There are no power outlets outside so i was thinking it could be powered by poe. If there are any options that can be powered by poe (no separate power supply) and have 2-5 ports could you please list them? If it makes a difference i'm from europe. Thank you for your help and answers

Hey all, I'm LF information about PoE switches vs poe injectors failure rates and whether or not 2 poe injectors would be a better pick for 2 IP cameras over 1 poe switch (unmanaged) for an extended period of time in a closed environment. Couldn't really find useful info by googling it. IMO Injectors would be more reliable because they are simpler and pretty much just a power source, whereas switches have L2 networking which makes them a bit more complex with more things to break. However, 2 injectors might be less reliable than 1 switch, since there's everything times 2 and therefore higher change of sth giving out. Thanks in advance!

This is a project I picked up for my family over the holidays. We will be connecting the networks of three houses from a central omni-directional antenna in the middle of a field. I have opted to use Ubiquiti products for this build due to my experience working with them in the past. It ain't much but it's honest work. - The age old story of US Internet providers. The only Internet provider available in this rural location offers only one speed, molasses. It is horribly inconsistent, and service has only degraded over the years. There are three houses, two with independent connections, and one using a hotspot with the only mobile carrier with reception in the area. On a good day, the best connection averages 1.4Mbps download, 0.15 Mbps upload, and 80ms latency. The second house's connection is somehow noticeably and consistently worse than the first. The ISP refuses to add service to the third house despite having it previously due to their over-provisioned lines. Calls to the ISP for the degraded service are a waste of time, any service at all is enough for them to call acceptable. For this premium broadband experience, they are paying $50/mo for two homes, and even more for the hotspot in the third. While researching this project over the best of these connections, I stumbled upon a great example of the current situation. When a PDF failed to open in-browser after a few minutes, I resorted to downloading a copy through terminal. The result was 6 minutes 11 seconds to download a 16.4MB file. If you build it, they will come. A pre-order has been in with Starlink for a year now. The latest update suggests service may be available starting in March. Since the pre-order, another service provider has started offering tower based point to point Internet service some 50 miles away. There is rumor of them expanding the service area, but for now, it is a race to see which service will be available first. We have yet to see if either provider will provide a reliable connection with acceptable speeds. The plan is to build a suitable intranet so that when better service is available, the existing services can be cancelled and all buildings can run off of the same uplink. The Plan - Part 1: Location Points A, B, and C represent the houses, point M represents the bridge between the houses, and P represents our source of power for the bridge (more on this later). Every point to point connection is in line of sight. This is a heavily wooded area, and there is little room for modification due to the treeline. Conveniently, the connections to B and C run parallel with power lines, which keeps the chainsaw out of my hands, and leaves future tree trimming to the power company. The Plan - Part 2: Equipment Point M represents the point to multi-point omni-directional device to serve as the backbone. For this I chose the R5AC-LITE-US ($135 USD) with AMO-5G10 ($125 USD) antenna to operate in bridge mode. Each house will be equipped with a Loco5AC-US ($49 USD each). I believe this is an economical option which should allow speeds of up to 450Mbps between the locations. I had originally planned on using three more Loco5AC-US as a bridge before exploring omni-directional options. I would have used a NanoSwitch to provide pass-through PoE and power all of the devices. Having found the N-SW, it looks like an awesome product and I was looking forward to using it. Maybe another time! The Plan - Part 3: Power A road running between points A and M prevents burying cable between them. A water well house, marked as point P, is the only way of getting power to our equipment at M. The well house sits just shy of 100m/330ft from our equipment, and while a CAT6 cable has a maximum distance of 100m/327ft, passive PoE (24v) is only good for 45m/150ft at best. Finding a way to use PoE for this would be a money saver, but burying 110v electric is also an option. The downside to this is the cost of electrical cable, outlet, and waterproofing needed at the bridge. Review My idea is to bring the family's Internet out of the 00's and plan for it stable enough to last the next decade. Reducing the overhead of the three Internet connections should cover the cost of equipment within the first year, even with a higher service fee. TL;DR: Using wireless point to point to cut three Internet connections down to one. Burying 110v electrical across a field because PoE will probably not work. Estimated cost: less than $500 USD. Equipment price list: Model Cost Qty Total Price R5AC-LITE-US 89 1 135 AMO-5G10 125 1 125 Loco5AC-US 49 3 147 Pre-tax $407 Let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions. I am also open to other brands of point to point equipment if anyone has had good experiences.

I'm looking for the smallest POE WAP with decent speed and reliability. I want it to be simple and small enough to carry around in a bag.

Hi all, quick question. Are Ubiquiti Unifi Lite access points compatible with normal EdgeMax switches (ie the 250w 16 port i have), or do you need a unifi switch/router as well? Existing network is made up of EdgeMax router and switches, would like to theoretically just hook the access points to the existing switch, not have to buy another separate one. Afaict the Lites run off 802.3af poe, which teh switch supports too, and there is definetly available wattage, i just dont know if they made those access points exclusive to the unifi ecosystem? any insight greatly appreciated!

I have a Cisco aironet air-cap3502i-e-k9 and wonder if i can use a 58 volt PoE adapter. Will this damage the ap or will it work?

I am moving into a new house in a few weeks and we wired for 10GbE. My current network switch is a Ubiquiti Switch Pro 24 with no PoE or 10G other than the two SFP+ ports. I predict as of now that I'll only have maybe 5 10G devices but in the future that number could change to 10 or so. I was looking at selling my switch and buying the Switch Enterprise XG 24 for future proofing, but this switch doesn't have any PoE ports on it either and in my new house I have 7 PoE devices (also Unifi). Two of them need PoE+ and the other 5 only need standard PoE. I could just use PoE injectors which was my original idea or I could settle for a PoE switch and the Enterprise XG. I am not sure what to do. I have a NAS that is also 10G capable so I would like to be able to use the 10G capabilities of the networking in my home since I already have the wiring for it. What do you guys recommend? Feedback is greatly appreciated. Also why is some of the used Ubiquiti gear selling for more than new on eBay? That doesn't make any sense??

Evening all I have a set up where I have multiple zyxel GS1200-5hp v2 connected to Ubiquit Long-Range Ethernet Repeater UACC-LRE that then connected into the next zyxel switch that are connected around a site with no issues.we I have one line where it comes from the zyxel in to the UACC-LRE then to a unmanaged switch that doesn't work The cable I believe to be good, because if I connected my laptop instead of the unmanaged switch it works fine. But as soon as I plug in the unmanaged switch the line dies completely. I have tried a netgear 5 port, d link 8 port and a tp link poe 5 port. All just die however if I connected the zyxel straight to the unmanaged switches without the UACC-LRE there no issue. I need the UACC-LRE as some runs are long All cabling is cat6 duct grade wired T-568B Really need help with this one.

Hello, I'm looking for help with a set up. I have a old (2009) 48 port cisco catalyst poe switch and I want to install it in my house to have all of my devices hooked up directly to the internet. The switch works and I tested it on my desktop PC and it connected to the internet right away. BUT..... I'm worried about POEing my devices. I have heard that if a device does not require POE but receives POE it can ruin the electronic it is sending power to. Devices I will have hooked up directly to the switch will be TVs, TV boxes, playstations, computers etc. In the research I have done I found that you are able to turn on and off the POE on each individual port but me not being a super tech savey guy, I have no idea how to do this. I have also read that POE switches will only send power out if the device it is hooked up to requires it. When I hooked it up to my desktop it was a plug and go set up. No programming or anything like that, so does that mean I can do the same with with all of my devices? Any help with this topic would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Kevin

Hello everyone, This is a work related question. We currently have many of our staff working from home due to the rona; does anyone know of a way to boot (not wake) a machine via something like magic packet? We use Dell systems to the BIOS option of Power by PCI is not an option (Unless Dell has this feature named as something else). Any help or aid in my direction of research is greatly appreciated! -BobQ

Hello! I'm in need of at least a 8 port POE switch, one that isn't stupid expensive, and that's at a reasonable price. Any suggestions?

I'm looking in to setting up a few IP Cameras and came to the conclusion that PoE was going to be the more viable option for powering the cameras in the locations they will be installed. But I've never actually dealt with any PoE devices in all my years, so I've been doing a lot of research and think I have an answer to my question, but have yet to find a definitive yes/no confirmation. So I was hoping someone on here with more experience with these could let me know if I'm correct or need to rethink some things. My main issue right now is that I'm looking at replacing a 4 port gbit switch on my network with an 8 port (4 PoE+, 4 Non-PoE) gbit switch. To avoid additional clutter and having to chain switches together unnecessarily. In my research I know now that PoE is delivered in multiple ways over different sets of pairs depending on the connection type. Generally, from my understanding. Gbit switches supply power over all of the pairs. But the cameras I'm looking at are 100mbit PD's. Which I know only use 2 pairs for power in a PoE setup. While I know proper 802.3af and 802.3at compliant devices can negotiate their power requirements with the switch. I don't know if the switch and PD will also negotiate how the power is delivered. So that the gbit switch (which afaik, should normally supply power on all pairs to a gbit device) can deliver power across just 2 pairs as per what the PD is built to accept? Sorry if the question seems silly or obvious. I think it should work. But I learned a long time ago it's better not to assume I've come to the correct conclusion regarding things I'm not familiar with. So I'd greatly appreciate any input from you all. Thanks in advance.

Hello there, to firstly specify, I am in a home environment, so I do not need any business solutions etc. My old router is slowly dying and I need to replace it, it is: TL-WR743ND - a PoE powered router, something, that was very suitable for placement in my home, since I had already premade cabling to specific location, without having electricity there. At the moment, I cant seem to find any suitable home use routers that can be powered trough PoE and for aesthetics I dont want to be using passive poe splitter. Are there any PoE powered routers you know of, that could be used in a home setup? In lets say 0-75 dollar range? I could go with a separate router and placing only AP on the spot, but that would probably cross my budget. Also I heard about some Mikrotiks, but I would rather avoid those for home use. Thanks

Hello, Im looking for less than 10 4k IP cameras with good IR night vision. I dont care if they are made by Dahua or Hikvision or some other Chinese outfit as long as they are less than USD $250 and work well. They will be on a seperate vlan not connected to anything but the server so they cant call home. Im also struggling to find NVR software. It needs to have all the cameras show up on one web page and be able to record to hard drives in the server. Something like motion would work but i havent been able to find out what cameras work with it and which ones dont. I have a DL360p G8 running debian 10 (buster) with 2x E5-2640 (6c 12t each). I keep seeing Blue Iris mentioned a lot of places. If that is the way to go, can it be run on my debian server? I had looked into the UVC-G4 PRO's but they are expensive and unifi-video is not being developed anymore. Any advice will be appreciated, Andy

Not sure if this is the right place for this but: I'm looking into getting multiple cameras to live stream an event and was wondering if it was possible to live stream, using obs, with POE security type cameras. I'm looking into a lot that includes Cisco/Linksys PVC2300 internet POE video cameras and a couple other models. Not sure if it's possible, and if so how would it work (ie. What other equipment would be needed)? Thanks for any help!

Hi Team, I am planning to buy a second hand 48 port PoE switch Cisco 3750. I plan on installing 16 IP cameras at my residence and 3-4 PoE access points. Since the switch has 48 ports, I am planning to use the remaining ports as normal ethernet ports across my house for plugging in TVs, computers and other non poe devices. I wanted to know if the switch will damage the non poe devices as the switch itself is a poe one. Further please let me know if the switch will output enough wattage to power all the cameras and access points. I would like to know what should we consider while looking for poe switches which will supply enough power to number of IP cameras. Further I am looking to install a FreeNAS system to act as a file server. Please let me know if there is any way where we could directly dump footage off the cameras to the freenas box and stream right off it without any NVR. Thanks.

plain and simple I need to know which wires, Number/color are used for POE in an ethernet cable. Which are positive and which are negative, basically I am building somthing and I need to directly input power to the cable with a 48v converter rather than a POE injector so I need to know what wires to connect the power to.

What’s up fellow techies, does anyone have suggestions on a 8 channel PoE NVR surveillance system? Looking for a wide angle/HD 4MP or more camera. With 1080p or higher resolution, nigh vision, motion detection and the other usual specs. So many brands out there hard to decide.

So have a funky one that I need some help on. I work at a company that installs IP cameras and we have a weird situation. One of our clients just bought a robotic autonomous forklift that they want to monitor so we got them a 360 fisheye camera and we need to connect it back to the network so it can be monitored/recorded from the NVR. Problem is because the forklift will be moving around we have to use the power available on the lift itself which happens to be 48v DC. We have a switch that can be powered by 48v and is PoE. the camera is PoE so no problems there but we need a way to connect the camera back to the building's wifi. At first we thought we could use a PoE access point in bridge mode but we are having problems finding one that can be powered by standard PoE and not some funky standard. Here's what we've tried so far Ubiquity M2 Bullet (Non-Standard PoE can't power it up with our switch) Ubiquity airGateway (Non-Standard PoE can't power it up with our switch) TP Link EAP225 (AP only does not support bridge mode) Any suggestions for Wifi routers/Access points that support bridge mode, or some other solution we haven't considered?

I got contacted by a friend of mine to come out and look at some camera's at his business. Hes currently running a mix of fisheye and bullet cameras and all of them are analog. Its a Nuvico branded system but literally can't find any model or information or anything that remotely resembles the installed DVR. The equipment is about 15+ years old and over half of the cameras aren't working. Sometime this week I'm going to go out and do some more digging around to see if working with his old equipment is even an option. I want to be able to give him a couple possibilities however and wanted to ask what your guys favorite camera systems are?? If I'm putting in new equipment I personally would like to go poe and run everything back to a central server however I would like opinions on that too. Thanks

So I've been on google for probably the past 8 hours or so, trying to figure out how to set up 2 IP POE security cameras to my 1 ethernet port. I'm able to do the one camera by giving the camera a static IP address, then simply using ISpy to detect the camera and use it from there. However I want to set up 2 cameras now since I need more coverage. Could I get a POE switch, plug the 2 cameras, then my desktop, then edit both camera IP address so I could use ISpy or some other program to view the both of them. I don't have a router and the only thing I have is a hotspot that only gives me around .5MB average so this is why I'm going for more of a direct method of connecting my cameras. Thank you to everyone in advance.