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Cake day: November 8th, 2023

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  • So sounds like you need 4 PoE ports.

    You can get a silent 24 port switch and you can get a silent 8 port POE switch, but a 24 port POE switch is designed for 350w (at least, more if its POE+) of consumption, so you’re going to be dealing with active cooling, and considering most are designed to be rackmounted, that means small high RPM fans.

    If you care about noise i’d just get 2 switches, one for POE and one for non POE.

    Also, a house is not an office building or a hotel. You might have cat 6 in every room, but most people dont randomly plug and unplug in hardwired network devices in different rooms in their home. As someone whose had a home network for over a decade, i find it perfectly fine to go upstairs and connect a new patch cable when I plug in a new device to a previously unused port. So instead of sizing the switch for every possible connection you might make, size it for what you need now + a little margin, and who knows, maybe by the time you need the rest of those ports, 10G switches and network devices will have become more common and affordable.