POE Switch

Diggerdunne

Question for those in the know.
Can a cheap POE switch slow down your network?
Reason i ask is i got a cheap POE switch from China and when i put my access point thru the POE switch and power it thru POE my speed test drops from 30M to about 3M, when powered locally its a solid 30M. This leads me to believe its the cheap switch but wanted to hear from others who know better than I....

Thanks

Cuddlesworth

Diggerdunne wrote: »

Question for those in the know.
Can a cheap POE switch slow down your network?
Reason i ask is i got a cheap POE switch from China and when i put my access point thru the POE switch and power it thru POE my speed test drops from 30M to about 3M, when powered locally its a solid 30M. This leads me to believe its the cheap switch but wanted to hear from others who know better than I....

Thanks

Sounds like a port on that switch is running at 10mb half duplex. Could be a bad cable, could be a ****ty switch.

I wouldn't like to use cheap untested and unrated devices to pump out power down lightly insulated cables running in my walls. At worst, get a decent POE injecter and use it by the cable end.

Diggerdunne

Hey Cuddlesworth,
Thanks for the reply...
It does kinda point to the POE switch, BUT...
I have 2 AP's using POE from that switch, one is a Ubiquiti UniFi AP and that works over the cheap POE switch and the second AP is a Mikrotik ( https://www.senetic.ie/product/RBMAPL-2ND) The Mikrotik does not seem to work over POE, but when i power it locally and plug it straight into the router it works fine so its not a cabling issue...
Thanks for the help...

smuggler.ie

Does Ubiquiti continue to work once second AP connected.
Or disconnect Ubiquiti and test other on its own.
I am pointing to potentially insufficient power.

Diggerdunne

Hey Smuggler,

I did not check that, will check later, but i think you maybe right about not enough power, it seems logical, thanks for the help...