POE splitter as repeater?

Does anyone know whether a POE splitter like TP-LINK TL-POE10R can be used as repeater? I have laid an ethernet cable from my friends house to mine and it's almost 150 mtrs. I would need a midspan device which would work as a repeater. Reason to ask is that it would be cheaper and would have smaller footprint (it would be easy to hide the device in the plain sight)

Sure, in theory you'd be able to. I wouldn't swear that it can actually hit spec of 100 meters, but it claims/seems to comply with all of the relevant 802.3 specs, so 100 meters should be doable.

Since you are going to have to put this in an outdoor enclosure as a repeater (I realize you said you already laid ethernet), it would likely be cheaper, easier and more reliable to have done this with fiber. Especially since outdoor rated cat cable isn't really cheaper than fiber from what I have seen.

A transciever on either end with SFP module is pretty cheap (can be had for less than $100 for 2 transceivers and 2 SFP modules and used could probably be had for less than $50).

Fiber

@azazel1024, thank you for your reply. Fiber penetration in India is quite low and the equipment including the fiber itself is not so readily available.

We stay in a gated township of 700 apartments so we used cellar communication ducts to carry the cable. So it's just that we don't want people snooping around our devices.

I'd deffinitely consider some network security on both sides since the connection appears like it would be easily accessible other than possibly security through obscurity. At the very least I'd do ACLs on both sides so that only the MAC of the switch/router port on each side can connect to each other (this is rather more secure than MAC filtering on a wireless network).

I'd also consider RADIUS server and credentials for everything thing going between or a VPN.

Call me paranoid, but if my wired network is physically accessible to others, I wouldn't trust it without many layers of protection.

Fiber might be more expensive, but it is rather difficult to just splice in to without quite a bit of skill and devotion, where is tapping an ethernet repeater is mindlessly simple, even tapping in to the cable itself is pretty darned easy to do.

Point taken!

Point well taken Sir! Thank you for your kind advice. . I will continue to post updates.

Reply from TP-LINK

Here is what TP-LINK says about using the splitter as repeater.

The POE splitter is not intended as a Repeater or Booster, but we have seen people using it that way. The theoretical max distance of Ethernet is 100M and is possibly being exceeded by 50M with this setup. The splitter should allow for the connection to be made, but it may not be the best quality signal.

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Appreciate your update Tim.

If you already have the Ethernet in place try it. I have pushed CAT5e 444 feet using an enterprise Cisco switch at 100 meg.

In the old days more than 20 years ago my neighbor and I liked to play computer games. Our kids both teenage girls stayed on the phone all the time so we could never get enough game time. This was back in the modem dialup days. There was not any DSL or cable only dialup. I strung CAT5 cable to my neighbor’s house so we could play computer games. I just used regular CAT5 indoor cable which I put in the black plastic cheap water pipe you buy at HomeDepot. I buried the plastic pipe and we used that connection for years.

Sorry for the delay reply. Yes, the ethernet cable is already in place. 135 meters is mighty long. That gives me some hope. So I ordered TP-Link Injector and Splitter combo. Hopefully we will get to test in next few days.