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WAC540 connected to unmanaged switch connected to Sky Q Hub/Router
Hi, I have this setup: Sky Q Hub (with all WiFi features turned off) TP-Link Unmanaged 8 port switch with 4 ports PoE+ (ports 1-4) My non-PoE devices connected to ports 5-8 on the TP-Link, ...
It's the TP-SG1008P v4 (which has PoE+). Haven't tried power supply as the WAC540 doesn't come with one and didn't think it would be necessary.
Was think of it for just testing. It wouldn't be the first POE switch that wasn't supplying full power.
Also make sure to have the poe suppying port 1 on the WAC.
The power supply is a 12VDC 2.5A power supply. You might have one sitting around from an old router (or even current one) for testing.
Yep, Port 1 on both WACs is used (port 2 is unused). Port 1 on the PoE switch as well. According to the specs, the TP-Link provides 30W per port, max 64W. I have no other PoE devices plugged in so cause an overflow, and even it I did it would surely just shut down power knocking the WAC540 off, not make the Sky router go into panic mode and basically brick all ethernet ports!
Also, I went from a PoE switch to PoE+. On the PoE, the WAC540 complained that it wasn't getting enough so the 5GHz High band was completely disabled. Now that is fixed and it's not complaining anymore, that suggests its happy with its power input.
Is it usual to see a (what I think are) high number of Proxy ARP and Dropped ARP packets?
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