PoE on WiFi discs

[Hat322]

We've got EE's Smart WiFi package arriving tomorrow and, because we're currently having work done on the house, we're talking to our electrician about positioning the router etc. He's proposing to use PoE (power over ethernet) for the Smart WiFi disc - does anyone know if this will work?  

[Chris_B]

@Hat322  Is that to power the disk ?  Because that will not work as the disk is powered via a jack plug on the disk and a wall socket.     He’s an electrician not a network engineer,  you’re not trying to power the disk from the router.   The disk is very much like a Wi-Fi repeater and it’s not hard wired to the router.  

[XRaySpeX]

If you mean powering the disks by PoE from the router instead of powering them from the mains, the EE Smart Router does not provide PoE.

Never talk to a house electrician about networking 😉 ! 

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