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POE+ vs POE++ unmanaged witchs (I own a GS116PP)
Hi. I am new to this forum and have not read the rules yet so if I mess it up please be gentle with me 🙂 OK I own a GS116PP switch and a WAX630E AP - both brand new When powering the WAX630...
Both the WAX630 (nominal 30.1W) and WAX630E (nominal 28E) require a 802.3bt PoE++ power source - in fact more power than what a 802.11af PoE+ port can provide. It's not the port speed, much more the wireless radios are operated on less channels to lower the maximal power consumption.
Keep in mind both WAX630 and WAX630E come with 2.5 GbE MultiGig ports. The wireless radios can easily exceed the bandwidth of a single GbE port - so this does not just the GbE switch, but also likely your Internet router or connections, unless you have a MultiGig capable router in place to deal with the bandwidth between sate-of-the-art wireless client and the local network (LAN).
This is not a Netgear thing - much more, this applies to any similar technology WiFi Access Points and the uplink capacity for modern wireless clients. Welcome to the year 2024!
Both the WAX630 (nominal 30.1W) and WAX630E (nominal 28E) require a 802.3bt PoE++ power source - in fact more power than what a 802.11af PoE+ port can provide. It's not the port speed, much more the wireless radios are operated on less channels to lower the maximal power consumption.
Keep in mind both WAX630 and WAX630E come with 2.5 GbE MultiGig ports. The wireless radios can easily exceed the bandwidth of a single GbE port - so this does not just the GbE switch, but also likely your Internet router or connections, unless you have a MultiGig capable router in place to deal with the bandwidth between sate-of-the-art wireless client and the local network (LAN).
This is not a Netgear thing - much more, this applies to any similar technology WiFi Access Points and the uplink capacity for modern wireless clients. Welcome to the year 2024!
TYVM for your response.
Much appreciated.
In your expert experience is there some type of POE injector solution I can use that WILL provide the necessary power to both power the device AND keep the speed at or above the 1Gbps mark - or as fast as that the AP can provide-I estimate the top WIFI speed is approx. 600Mbps on full "speed".
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I DO have a multi-GB capable router, it is pfsense, on a PC (CPU and RAM is over powered for 2.5Gbps and might even support 10GBps) it currently only has 1Gbps nics in it. (i7 4790K with 32GB ddr4 @ 2400Mhz - I also have a spare for when this one dies that is a i7 6700K with 64GB ddr 4 @3600Mhz)
The current dual port is a Realtek server nic - I forget the actual bandwidth but my PC is getting near 990Mbps down and easily 49Gbps up)
I have been looking around for 10Gbps dual port nics.
The speed-tests I have done on speedtest.net, dsl reports, fast.com, waveform.com and cloudflare.com all show download speeds of anywhere between 939 and 990Gbps. I guess I cannot expect more than that and some people at work say that's faster than their own Bell FTTH service.
During each of these speed tests CPU usage spike once each test to 20% for most of th test the CPU usage was 0-3%
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