[K12OSN] Slightly OT - Wireless in your school/building

[Jeff Siddall]

On 03/20/2011 09:25 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 3/20/11 8:06 PM, Joseph Bishay wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Jeff Siddall<news at siddall.name>  wrote:
>>> On 03/18/2011 08:03 AM, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
>>> Either that or pick whatever AP you like, and if it doesn't do PoE just
>>> buy one of these:
>>>
>>> http://www.trendnet.com/products/proddetail.asp?prod=130_TPE-112GS&cat=58
>>>
>>>
>>> They are only ~$25 so it really doesn't matter whether your AP does PoE
>>> or not, and there is no way you can run power anywhere for $25.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>
>> That is a pretty cool thing!  My concern is that POE switches/APs are
>> probably more expensive than non-POE and thus I'd be very limited in
>> what I can purchase.  This may actually help resolve that.
> 
> That brick splits a POE into ethernet and power out.  There are
> equivalents to inject power at the other end if you don't need enough
> runs to justify a POE switch.

Correct.  The power injectors tend to be about twice as expensive though
so at some point pretty early on it is better/cheaper to just buy a PoE
switch.  You can get a Netgear ProSafe FS108 8 Port Fast Ethernet switch
with 4 port PoE for about $120.

Jeff