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Old 26-12-2015, 10:55 AM
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I will have a look at it in the new year given the price is as you would expect for more enterprise oriented gear.

I have one of these

https://www.pccasegear.com/products/28813

supporting one end of the house where there is only a single Cat5e cable at the moment but there are two computers and an IP phone. I should get more cables run and shift the switch to our central rack where it can properly supplement our existing 16 port switch, and also have all our in house POE stuff run to a central location. The three Ubiquiti APs and the IP phone are all POE, the phone currently supplied by the TP Link switch and the APs by their own supplied injectors. The only thing I do not like about that idea is that the passive gear will need dedicated ports to make sure they get fed the right voltage. The ideal would be a brand new 24 port POE switch with a couple of SFP slots but to get ones where the SFP slots are not shared ports with one of the other ports (So you loose an ethernet port when you install an SFP) is really expensive.

When I get my conduit in to my shed then I would buy another one of those TP Link switches as 8 ports will be heaps for the shed and I can stick in my SFP modules to hook up a fibre link. That particular switch has the SFPs independent of the other ports so they are really a 10 port switch not 8 port.

The router is a secondary issue (On NBN fixed wireless) but I have never been entirely happy with the ones I have had. Flaky and unreliable and the first thought when the net connection drops is to reboot the router.
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