29 Mar
2022
29 Mar
'22
4:30 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 1:12 PM Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
So if you want the $100 test to eliminate PoE electrical effects, get a pair of media converters and run fiber between them. Put the CPE on the far end. Optimize as appropriate if you have SFP-capable switches.
Sure--that would shoot down the "leaking non-existent PoE across a motherboard and out another NIC" theory, but I was more thinking along the lines of something like PoE causing RF interference or something. I mean it's DC not AC so...it wouldn't be putting out a modulating signal that interferes? ...honestly that's outside my knowledge domain. -A