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This is sensible advice. They are very convenient. However I will clarify that although you can get great speeds with a flat Ethernet cable (thanks to modern m
by orra 3y ago
This is sensible advice. They are very convenient.
However I will clarify that although you can get great speeds with a flat Ethernet cable (thanks to modern manufacturing?), you must not use these to carry power.
I want to make this clear because first cables tend to describe themselves as Cat6 or whatever. This may be close enough in terms of signal/speed, but these don't use a thick enough wire guage to do PoE (Power over Ethernet), let alone PoE+.
(I am reasonably sure real Cat6 cables must support at least PoE, but it is hard to be certain when standards are behind paywalls.)
- somehnguy 3y agoFor smaller draw devices it may work fine. I powered 2 Unifi ac lites via Poe with a 25ft and 50ft flat Ethernet cable for a couple years, no problems.
- orra 3y agoI am glad that worked for you. The reason I flag it is: it may silently appear to work, but be heating up the cables without you realising it.
- somehnguy 3y agoOh no, yeah I made sure that wasn’t the case with my setup. Monoprice 30awg flat Ethernet cables in 25-50ft with a 6.5w power draw from the devices, no heat at all.