IT Answers » Power over Ethernet http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers Fri, 24 May 2013 16:44:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Changing Duplex on a POE Cisco 1231 WAP http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/changing-duplex-on-a-poe-cisco-1231-wap/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/changing-duplex-on-a-poe-cisco-1231-wap/#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:50:02 +0000 Flame On a network I am working on I have a Cisco 1231 WAP that is powered via POE. The Duplex is currently set as “Half”, while the rest of the WIFI network (3 more 1230 series WAPs) is set as “Full”. This is causing the device to throw an error once per second. All the WAPS, including the half duplex 1231 are working, but it is making for useless error logs, as important notices tend to “scroll off” the log file before I can get to them. If I want to change Duplex on the device, I get a warning that since I am using POE, there could be problems during the necessary reboot to set the device to full duplex. I could power the device via a regular wall wart and reset it that way, but the problem is getting to it. It is installed high up on a wall, above a large press, the maintenance guy said it would take most of an afternoon to get to it using a man lift My question is this, has anybody ever reset the duplex on one of these while using POE? While I’m thinking I’m going to be spending some quality time high above the ground soon, I’d like to avoid shutting down a press and jumping though all the other hoops to get at the WAP if I don’t have to.

Thanks!

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What do you think? Is there any benefit to going with Power over Ethernet now?

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