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This is my first post and I would LOVE some help.

I'm in a situation where the customer owns our intranet/"VendorNet", which is a VLAN that represents all the servers and devices to which I need to communicate (e.g. remote desktop into a server).

For various reasons, I am not allowed to use wireless APs to gain wireless access to ports activated on this VLAN and must be hard-wired directly from my computer into the port. My issue is that I am not able to reach where I need to go with the 100m cat5e restriction. The customer has permitted me to use a wired, 1-port ethernet repeater to extend my range.

So here are my questions:

Is it possible to plug an ethernet cable directly from my laptop's standard ethernet port into an ethernet repeater, then the ethernet repeater into a port capable of communicating over the network I'd like to access, and be able to remote desktop into a server on said network? What if this repeater is PoE/PoE+? Even if the repeater is IEEE802.3af/at (af class 1-4), will it still fry my port/network adapter?

For some reason or another, they will only let me use a 1-port ethernet repeater and not a dumb switch or anything like that. This has really tied my hands and made efficient work a genuine challenge. Any help would be truly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Adam

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short answer yes you could with no problem , repeater should work as a two port switch . i believe in that if this two port repeater is POE or POE+ just main that it will need extra power adapter to provide the host with this POE but not affect its data payload . so first of all test this repeater with simple ping .

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  • Actually, the repeater works as a two-port hub rather than a two-port switch. It is a layer-1, not a layer-2 device.
    – Ron Maupin ♦
    Jan 20, 2016 at 15:21
  • @RonMaupin Most of these so-called repeaters I looked at support full-duplex operation. So despite the name, they really are layer-2 devices.
    – richardb
    Apr 20, 2016 at 9:42
  • @richardb, yes, they can use full-duplex (they only have two ports), but they do nothing at layer-2. A layer-2 device will at least inspect a frame, and it uses a layer-2 address, but the repeaters don't.
    – Ron Maupin ♦
    Apr 20, 2016 at 14:22
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It is unlikely that the repeater will be a PoE device, except that it may power itself with PoE.

In any case, your laptop should have no problem because you can plug it into a PoE switch port and not fry it. PoE will not be sent unless the end-device requests it. This was a primary concern when the PoE standards were originally created.

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