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Ok, here goes. I work from home and have a remote office in the garden. the current set up for internet access is as follows:
BT home hub 5 (38MB connection) at the far end of the house.
netgear router at this end of the house linked by a cat5 ethernet cable to the homehub.
laptop/ipad etc connect from the office to the netgear router over wifi.
the office has power via an extension cable run at high level into a 4 way extension socket.
Ive just been sent an internet phone that the rest of my colleagues at head office have, and want to get it up and running. The thing is, it gets its power from the ethernet cables at head office. I dont have a powered connection in my office.
Is there a wifi access point/router that can also deliver power over the ethernet connection? google returns lots of results but i'm not savvy enough to know what will work.
thanks
PoE (Power over ethernet) is what you're looking for. No idea beyond that I'm afraid.
nemesis - thanks a million - just so i'm certain i've got it....
that device gets plugged in in my office, and will connect to the wifi network from the netgear. I connect my phone to it, and it will connect the phone to t'internet?
You need a power injector between your Netgear and the phone. Ethernet goes in, Powered Ethernet goes out.
Your head office should have sent one with the phone and didn't, ask them for it.
Yup, what Cougar said. Something like [url= http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/tp-link-gigabit-poe-injector-adapter-n35ql ]this[/url]
We use them for surveillance cameras in the server room.
that's what nemesis posted isn't it?
Yes, same sort of thing by the looks of it. Your company should be providing it though.
Apologies I thought he'd posted a router with Power over Ethernet. Must. wait. for. link. to. load....
The injector just sits on the ethernet line and adds power to it BTW.
Your company should be providing it though.
Yeah.
Seriously, we send out VPN phones all the time, and if they go out without a PoE injector it's an accident. It's considered part of the package, it's not appropriate to expect an end user to provide it.
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It'll go on expenses 😉 my IT dept might be browsing, so all i'll say is they are the salt of the earth, great guys. cough.
Are you planning to use the phone in the office, where there is only wifi and no ethernet? If so, the PoE devices above won't do the connect-to-wifi-and-convert-to-ethernet bit for you: they only "inject" power into the ethernet, not data. For that, you need something like this:
http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/products/18069-edimax-cv-7428ns/
So data goes HH5->NetGear-(wifi)>Bridge-(ethernet through PoE injector)>phone
You might be able to get a bridge which also does the PoE.