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Yeah, it’s a very cool trick that surprises a lot of people when they learn that only half the wires are used.


Not for gigabit ethernet and good luck picking up the pieces if you find yourself splitting a power-over-ethernet setup :)


Reminds me of the "REAL" power over ethernet: http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/


Hehe, I remember that page :) Thanks!

Some of the captions are quite funny.


using a splitter is usually a temporary solution, and i am unlikely to be sharing a port with a PoE device. nor do i care about gigabit speed when the only reason to use a splitter is to make up for missing wifi.




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