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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!
Hi Again,
I am not sure I understand, however, after a bit more reading, if I grab a poe++ type 4 power injector and plug THAT into the POE++ port on the AP I should then get full power on all the radio's?
Also, after reading the comparison chart between WAX630 and WAX630E I noticed that only the 2.4Ghz radios are halved in performance - does this mean the 5Ghz and 6Ghz radios ARE working at full power?
My wife's PC is WIFI only (for now) and we are getting approx. 310 to 360Mbps on the speed test websites I mention in one of my posts.
IS this the most I can expect from the AP regardless of POE or I just plug it into an electrical socket?
I son also has a WIFI 6 capable router and she gets around the same speed when connected to his router - I had been assuming this is because I was using POE+ and not POE++. My sons router is plugged into the electricity NOT POE of any type.
His ISP provides 300Mbps down and mine provides 1Gb service; I thought THAT was the difference. Is this the wrong way of thinking.
I am old and know nothing about POE period other than the physical connections. I am having a hard time wrapping my head around the new information - 🙂
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