Hello EmsTatay!

11 Feb 19 10:18, you wrote to Rick Christian:

 > Hi Rick,
 > reading your requirements and wish to eradicate he pesky warts from
 > your
 > life...
 > My first thought was to use R-Pi PoE HAT. However, seems that there is
 > a problem with their function and AFAIK they have been recalled/put on
 > hold.

 An elegant solution, I found the horror stories to be true.

 > A practical (and may be even cheaper) alternative to the HAT would be
 > to
 > use a PoE splitter with a 5V 2.4A supply (4 pack on amazon < CAD 10
 > ea).
 > Use the already existing Cat5 cabling, add a suitable PoE supply unit
 > and hook up as many of your Pi's as the PoE adapter allows.

 That works o.k. but it moves the warts to the vincinity of the RPI.
 Ethernet speeds are limited to 100Mhz, as the four extra wires are not
 passed from one side of the splitter to the other.

 There could be models, that do.

 > Haven't tried it myself -

 I did.

 > but that might be one way to solve what you would like to achieve.

 Who knows.

Kees

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