Mikeyg40
Regular Member
Hello all..
It's a slight aside from the main thread subject but I thought it worth a mention to all of you that are, or have considered using PoE to provide power to your router stuffed away in a loft without electricity.
Don't do it.
My own trials and tribulations with Three HomeFi are discussed in another thread, but having invested in an outdoor antenna, I chose to put the router in the loft so as to avoid the big antenna cables coming into the bedroom. I then ran an Ethernet cable direct to my PC. As I had no power up there, I read up on PoE which seemed like a great solution......
Soon enough I noticed that the d/l speeds over Ethernet were pretty much half those that my Wi-fi connected iPhone and smart Tv were getting?
As you will have worked out, once I removed the PoE injectors and ran an electrical extension cable into the loft, all was well again.
I watched countless videos and read many articles on PoE, which make it clear that it does not degrade the Ethernet signal - well not in my case!
Ethernet is now all good and I'm getting around 70Mbps down - and for those that didn't see the other thread - that compares with 7Mbps fixed Broadband on an OE line.
It's a slight aside from the main thread subject but I thought it worth a mention to all of you that are, or have considered using PoE to provide power to your router stuffed away in a loft without electricity.
Don't do it.
My own trials and tribulations with Three HomeFi are discussed in another thread, but having invested in an outdoor antenna, I chose to put the router in the loft so as to avoid the big antenna cables coming into the bedroom. I then ran an Ethernet cable direct to my PC. As I had no power up there, I read up on PoE which seemed like a great solution......
Soon enough I noticed that the d/l speeds over Ethernet were pretty much half those that my Wi-fi connected iPhone and smart Tv were getting?
As you will have worked out, once I removed the PoE injectors and ran an electrical extension cable into the loft, all was well again.
I watched countless videos and read many articles on PoE, which make it clear that it does not degrade the Ethernet signal - well not in my case!
Ethernet is now all good and I'm getting around 70Mbps down - and for those that didn't see the other thread - that compares with 7Mbps fixed Broadband on an OE line.























