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hshah96
May 27, 2016Aspirant
NetGear ProSafe FS116P 16-port Switch - using the PoE port from a non PoE device
Hi This 16 port switch It has 8 PoE ports. What is i use one of the ports for a non PoE device would it affect the device/port Thanks
- Jun 05, 2016
Hi Dantech-1,
Thanks for sharing! :) This will be helpful to other community members.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
JohnRo
May 30, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hello hshah96,
We’d greatly appreciate hearing your feedback letting us know if the information we provided has helped resolve your issue or if you need further assistance.
If your issue is now resolved we encourage you to mark the appropriate reply as the “Accepted Solution” so others can be confident in benefiting from the solution. The Netgear community looks forward to hearing from you and being a helpful resource in the future!
Thanks,
- Dantech-1Jun 04, 2016Tutor
I would just like to add to this discussion. I installed a Unifi Wireless AP onto a Netgear Fs728TP switch which also has PoE and was concerned that because the Unifi device is powered by a Unifi 24V PoE Injector that plugging it in may harm the switch so I turned off the PoE on the switch port first and then plugged the Unifi AP in. It worked fine. However I had to factory reset the switch and this meant that PoE was enabled again and I wondered if this caused a problem. However it did not. The switch thought the device plugged in was non PoE but the AP was powered by the power injector and everything is fine. Seems like the ports are pretty resilient.
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