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skopje ◴[] No.45663732[source]
PoE is awesome. My custom home security system is all CCTV PoE with a gstreamer backend running on four-core fanless linux box. Way to go. Complete control. No batteries, no wares spying on me, no personal data getting scraped by big guys. (Cloud connectivity sucks because I have segmented mp4s and jogging through them hurts but I only care for events after they happen, not while they happen.)
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1. benoliver999 ◴[] No.45665193[source]
What switch do you use? I have PoE wifi APs throughout the house, but I bought an Aruba switch and it's super noisy tbh. Fine for me because it's in the basement, but I couldn't recommend it
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2. skopje ◴[] No.45665266[source]
some netgear 8-ch poe switch. i don't recall. it's been on and running for about 8 years with no issues, way up near the ceiling of my garage, covered with dust. its plugged into a wrt1900 router i bridged via wifi to my main router.
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3. ssl-3 ◴[] No.45665315[source]
At one of our offices (it is not a large office), I have a 24-port Netgear POE switch running the show. If it has a fan inside (it may! there's cutouts for fans on the sides of the chassis but I have not looked inside), I've never heard it.

It fit the price-performance curve for our needs several years ago when we eventually outgrew the previous Netgear POE switch...that was also apparently fanless, and that I installed in 2007.

IIRC, it is a GS724TP. It's running a dozen cameras and some access points, and almost all of the rest of the ports are filled up with computers and printers and other Ethernet stuff. No issues at all to to report so far.

(A used enterprise switch with serious fans may be cheaper and/or more featureful and/or more reliable, but do we need that kind of noise at home? We sure don't need it at that small office.

I've also installed some fanless Cisco POE switches with big heatsinks (and dual power supplies, each fed from different sources) on some high-dollar projects where ultimate reliability was kind of a big deal, but... sheesh.

If one of these installed Netgear switches dies in one of these low-risk environments, I'll just patch things up for now and get a replacement coming under warranty.)

4. debian3 ◴[] No.45667270[source]
GS308EP or EPP if you need more power budget.

Netgear are hard to beat in terms of reliability/price. They also have a 5 and 16 ports fanless version.

I also got an old Juniper EX2200 24ports and replaced the fans with quiet noctua. It run quite hot, better go with Netgear.