G+_Jared Twomey Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I can promise you that POE works fine at 100 meters, and those POE extenders work great to extend it twice that. They say you can Daisy chain them together to get more distance but I've never had the need to. You may have to put a larger POE injector in at the beginning of the run though. I work for a WISP and we run POE microwave radios all day off 100 meter runs of outdoor shielded Cat5e Cable, with no issues. And we occasionally use those extenders to get us past the 100 meter limit if it is an exceptionally long cable run. Most of the time we will use a larger power supply if it's closer to 200 meters. For example a lot of radios come with a 48V 1A injector. If it's a really long run we will use a 48V 2.5A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Peter Hanse Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I came across this site in looking for POE distance and had good info on distance and types of POE poe-texas.com - Multi port Passive POE Injector solutions high density fanless 802.3af and passive injectors and splitters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Perry Posted April 21, 2017 Author Share Posted April 21, 2017 Jared Twomey?, thanks for the info. I think you just sold me on using the anchors for the support wire to run an aerial line. Here's a question I have been thinking about, do I bother trying to use the support wire to keep the network cable from sagging if I am using an aerial cable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jared Twomey Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 I probably wouldn't use the support wire as long as you can get the messenger wire tight enough that the ethernet isn't swinging around in the wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Perry Posted April 21, 2017 Author Share Posted April 21, 2017 Jared Twomey?, With a PoE run that long should I be using cat6? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jared Twomey Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 I wouldn't bother, I would just use decent quality cat5. If you were getting close to 300' maybe, but you should be fine with Cat5. What kind of radio are you installing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Perry Posted April 22, 2017 Author Share Posted April 22, 2017 Thanks Jared Twomey?. The radio is a Trango M900S. I want to see if I can upgrade since the radio is old and I am going to all this trouble. The radio is currently on the house which is at the bottom of the picture and it will be moving in between all those bins on the right hand side. There isn't a short run in this entire project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jared Twomey Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 Gotcha, I used to install those all the time, we have since pulled all the Trango unlicensed stuff off our network. I would definitely see if you can upgrade if possible, you can get much better speeds out of the newer equipment available. Also, the trango radios use a non-standard poe wiring, so if you do need to use an extender, you would have to flip some pairs around in the cables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Peter Hanse Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Jason Perry non standard POE similar to our EnGenius we always use their POE adapters so we did not have issue. Jared Twomey it may come down to if is ISP or other end of link can also be upgraded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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