Back in the day, the white dome Airport Base Station supported Power over Ethernet, which allowed the station to be mounted far away from an outlet (e.g. on a ceiling) powered by just the ethernet data cable, great for preexisting buildings where running power for base stations might be expensive or impossible.The most recent Airport Extreme Base Stations have lacked this convenient feature, but MacWireless is now offering a PoE kit that works with the 802.11n AEBS. The $59.98 kit contains both an injector that plugs into the outlet and a splitter for the other end that goes to the AEBS, allowing both data and power to be sent over a single Cat5 cable up to 330 ft long. A shorter 200 ft range kit is $39.98.
[via MacNN]
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5-18-2008 @ 4:18PM
Tony said...
Is this 802.3af compatible? If it is it's quite a decent deal.
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5-19-2008 @ 1:57AM
michas_pi said...
Click on the read link; I think they have what you're looking for.
5-19-2008 @ 2:54AM
heretique said...
Almost $40 for just a few plugs? Nice bargain ;-)
Unless one is completely technically impaired, this kit could be made for $5. Or am I missing something?
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5-19-2008 @ 3:01AM
Mat Lu said...
You're missing something.
5-19-2008 @ 12:25PM
Ryan Trevisol said...
I LOL'd.