PoE Injector / Network Switch info

DirtyJester · 2025-11-16T12:54:06+0000

Planning a small home network after a fibre upgrade. Like most fibre installations these days the modem is in the hallway and I'd like to have a few wired connections throughout the house.

I will run a cat 6 cable into the loft where I want to have a network switch ( say 8 port) that I can feed from to other rooms. This switch won't have any powered mains and I'm hoping to use a PoE Injector for this purpose.

Any recommendations on compatible hardware, I was thinking TP Link or maybe Netgear. I'm not worried if its managed or unmanaged.

Cheers

m_c · 2025-11-16T14:00:26+0000

UniFi Ultra is 8 port and can be powered via POE.

DirtyJester · 2025-11-16T14:30:31+0000

m_c said:
UniFi Ultra is 8 port and can be powered via POE.

Thanks but I'd rather stick with TP-Link or Netgear if possible.

robj20 · 2025-11-16T14:32:33+0000

DirtyJester said:
Planning a small home network after a fibre upgrade. Like most fibre installations these days the modem is in the hallway and I'd like to have a few wired connections throughout the house.

I will run a cat 6 cable into the loft where I want to have a network switch ( say 8 port) that I can feed from to other rooms. This switch won't have any powered mains and I'm hoping to use a PoE Injector for this purpose.

Any recommendations on compatible hardware, I was thinking TP Link or maybe Netgear. I'm not worried if its managed or unmanaged.

Cheers

If you have full fibre you won't need a modem. You should just have an ONT then straight into a router.

DirtyJester · 2025-11-16T14:38:56+0000

robj20 said:
If you have full fibre you won't need a modem. You should just have an ONT then straight into a router.

I do indeed have Full Fibre and when I mentioned modem I was referring to the ONT box where the cat cable goes into my router.

I still need the Network switch in the loft

Avalon · 2025-11-17T00:25:17+0000

I quite like the Aruba 1820’s for this, managed but defaults to unmanaged, decent software and easy to obtain firmware with regular updates (Aruba being formerly HP. that’s not always been the case) and takes PoE in. My last surplus (eg unused spare) cost the grand total of £18 delivered. I also use it’s big brother as my core switch, 48pt Gb, 4xSFP+ and more PoE+ watts than I care to think about.