Can't Power Network Switch

[SlippingRelic]

Hello everybody, so I just moved into a new house and it is wired with ethernet. The patch panel is in a closet and all the rooms have cat5e jacks leading to it. In the patch panel itself the ethernet cables are just hanging out of the wall with the plastics ethernet plugs at the ends of them. So one room is going to have a computer wired another, a router, and another, a modem. The modem and router are in different rooms because it is a cable modem thus needs a cable connection which would be a little impractical for where I am going to place the router. Now that the background is out of the way lets get to the dilemma. As I said above I have a computer, a modem, and a router I need to connect them together through the patch panel, to do this I would use a switch but there is not a single power socket insight in the closet. So how in the world am I going to power the switch. I thought about using PoE but I'm not sure how that really works and if there are switches that work with it in the first place. Sorry for making you read all this but if you could help it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[USAFRet]

The sequence needs to be:
modem->router->switch->devices.

You can't connect the modem and the router through a switch.

 

[corroded]

Get a POE switch and Power it @ the Router end
I believe this one can be powered by POE:
http://www.amazon.com/HP-J9449A-ABA-Procurve-1810G-8/dp/B002NJUJ6G

 

[corroded]

also found this: NETGEAR ProSAFE GS105PE 5-Port PD Pass-through Gigabit Web Managed (Plus) Switch (GS105PE-10000S)
http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-ProSAFE-GS105PE-Pass-through-GS105PE-10000S/dp/B00J8NAWZ8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459120890&sr=8-1&keywords=poe+powered+switch

 

[jsmithepa]

Whoever wired that closet and not think about power, shake head., and it would have been nice that the coax junction is in there too, everything centrally located as it should, but NOOOOOOoooooooooo.

 

[SlippingRelic]

I know right, and the telephone connections are in there too.

 

[SlippingRelic]

This is to USAFRet, okay, if I put the router in the closet there is no way to power it. And if I put my router, modem, and computer in the same room, the signal from the router can't quite cover the whole house.

 

[USAFRet]

This is to USAFRet, okay, if I put the router in the closet there is no way to power it. And if I put my router, modem, and computer in the same room, the signal from the router can't quite cover the whole house.

However it gets powered, and wherever they are, that is the chain of devices it must be.

 

[jsmithepa]

OK this is what you do:

Have your modem/gateway in the room with the coax connection. Have one small switch here with enough ports to cover this room, PLUS 1 more port to take the ethernet signal to the junction. Then there is a second switch at the junction which drive the rest of rooms.

The ethernet switch at the junction needs to be POE'ed by a POE feeder at the modem's room.

Otherwise, if this is your own place, cutting sheet rocks and patching them back up is no big deal, to me, to wire a new power outlet.

 

[SlippingRelic]

OK this is what you do:

Have your modem/gateway in the room with the coax connection. Have one small switch here with enough ports to cover this room, PLUS 1 more port to take the ethernet signal to the junction. Then there is a second switch at the junction which drive the rest of rooms.

The ethernet switch at the junction needs to be POE'ed by a POE feeder at the modem's room.

Otherwise, if this is your own place, cutting sheet rocks and patching them back up is no big deal, to me, to wire a new power outlet.

Okay, thanks, but if you don't mind can you recommend some switches that can by powered by PoE that have 5 ports or less (I really just need two but it's good just in case if I wanted to add something in the future) and are not too expensive it would be great, thanks... again.

 

[corroded]

Look at what I posted above... I listed a couple.