Hi,
I bought a RB260GSP Switch for powering two wAP and a KNX to Ethernet Gateway. When I configured the hardware on my desk, I was able the power the wAP with a short (1-2m) Ethernet Cable. At the customer site nothing worked as expected.
Situation:
1m Patch Cable (Cat. 5e) <--> 40m Cable (Cat. 7) <--> 1m Patch Cable
The old switch (D-Link DES-1008P) was able to power up the devices with the same cables without any problem. The MikroTik switch was also not able to power a KNX Gateway on a 20m Cat. 5e cable. I tried different configurations of the switch (set manual POE on ...), but this changed nothing.
So my questions is: Is the MikroTik switch not the best candidate for POE or is my exemplar maybe defect?
Greeting Tobias