 So I'm here from Orange Systems and what if you have a cable run that exceeds the maximum distance of 100 meters or 300 feet? Well, this cat 6 cable has no problem of course doing that 100 meters or 300 feet But what if we got to go a little beyond it? Yeah, I know it'll work and I say that kind of loosely because I've talked about out of spec cabling before on this channel And yes, you can usually go a little beyond the spec and I've dove into some of the reasons Why with Dan Brer and I can leave links to those very technical videos down below But let's just talk about a simple solution of putting a repeater in now I've talked previously and I'll leave a link to it of using the game changer cable for being able to break that 100 meter 300 foot limit, but what if there's an easier way when you have an existing run and someone says hey that run That's at that distance. Can it go? I don't know maybe another hundred meters. That's where this device comes in This is the Mikrotik Gper so I went ahead and bought one because many people had asked me about them and I actually was not aware of them So thank you to those of you that commented and I brought these up and tag me on Twitter pretty cool little advice It's pretty inexpensive here. This is not sponsored or endorsed any way by Mikrotik We bought these off Amazon links will be down below before we dive into the details If you'd like to learn more about me and my company head over to Lawrence systems calm If you'd like to hire sure a project there's a hires button right at the top network design and network consulting a lot of What people hire is for if you want to support this channel other ways There's affiliate links down below to get you deals and discounts on products and services We talk about a channel and yes, there's an Amazon affiliate link to get one of these devices Let's talk about the scenario. We have sit up here first We got about oh, I don't know just about 300 feet of cable inside this box here And I didn't have another half empty box or even 500 foot box We only had thousand footbox and stock. So it is linked together on an additional 150 feeding cable now for this test We've got this plugged into a usg poe switch and I got a camera unify poe camera, but I've also tested this with the Unify Wi-Fi now one of the things that Happens right away here is of course at this distance It breaks as in the poe light comes on when I plug this camera in but uh, no actual camera working So I'll get a little poe link light but camera never links It sits here for a long time trying back and forth and the drop off of this distance is just too great for it to Be able to be functional. No need to actually sit down and watch it try it doesn't ever solve the problem So that's where this device comes in and this is the gpr Gigabit passive Ethernet repeater. It's as simple as it sounds. Yes, it does gigabit Yes, it's passive. I'm probably gonna order a second ones I didn't realize until after we got this one that you can extend them a couple hops out I've had people tell me they put a more than that in there But their recommendation is well the gpr unit allows ethernet extended keel by an additional hop 100 250 meters for regular advice and up to 210 meters to another gpr unit So let me order another one if there's enough comments on there about that But either way a lot of times just getting at one extended because there's obviously still gonna be Loss when you start going that far some poe devices may or may not have enough wattage because yes the poe passes through the device That's an important factor here, but let's show it working right here They have a suggested retail price of $16 the other day when I looked on Amazon When we bought them they were like $25 on Amazon Prime. So they're within that range We did pick up this right here the IP 67 case as well So I have that we're gonna take a closer look at this briefly But there's just a waterproof case for this device There's nothing particularly special for but if you're doing this outdoors or an industrial area and actually I just kind of like the way It's made so for is inexpensive. This is also available on Amazon. Yeah, I would probably recommend getting this Let's talk about the connectivity the jumpers and yes, it does have jumpers So they have the connecting they do have what it supports, which is passive poe power 802.3 af at DC 24 to 57 volts It'll pass through whichever voltage is needed. Now. This is for passing through poe devices What if you want to hook it up to a non poe device? You want to extend it to a wide or no any other switch or just another computer that happens to be Further away than the distance of the cable. Well, it actually has these little jumpers you pull off and pretty simple You pop those off But you do have to force passive 24 volts to the system now if you force passive 24 volts through it and don't pull the jumpers off it'll still work But it'll also bring the 24 volts all the way across to the other side But if you pull the jumpers off on the poe outside Because it has an in and an out this will allow you to have passive voltage in but not pass any voltage out So let's take an overhead look right at the parts here. Now. Here's a closer look at the device itself There's those two little jumpers for the poe in and two little jumpers for the poe out They just kind of pop out. Yes, I'm using a dental pick because they're a Little tricky to get out, but that's all they have there We went there went one and then we can pop the other one out And that's all you have to do to put it in passive mode to put another device in there But they do have a note in the documentation note Which way the jumpers go they go this way and not this way across so no big deal there now from an overhead look on it There's nothing really on the back side and we just have RJ45 ends on each side now as I stated this pile of cable right here Exceeds the distance that this camera will work so we're actually gonna set the camera up right here and Get this plugged in and it's just on a 3d printed stand Someone will probably ask if I will find the link that we 3d printed this stand for this unified camera This is now our little lab camera that we do for testing But we're gonna go ahead and plug this in and we find the end here of this cable And we're gonna take this little jumper so to give you an idea of the distance first we went the 300 feet 100 meters on this box here We're gonna take this and PoE in because the PoE out is here So it goes in through the box over to here and we'll go to PoE in all right Nothing lights up and I want to point that out right away in case you're wondering if it's broke unless you're forcing the PoE in nothing lights up until You plug in a PoE device at this end or you force passive 24 volt into this device So now we're gonna plug it into our extra 50 100 150 200 we have 200 more feet of cable right here Yes, it's been kind of just put together with this is also some prefab cable with just a few connectors But hey, don't worry. We tested this for a while It's been running since the other day and it works perfectly fine This does get slightly warm now. Let's take a look again at the overhead and we see the first light come on After a moment when the camera lights up, I just heard the camera go click I'm pretty sure it won't pick that up in a second. You're gonna see the other light that confirms it negotiated and is now passing through the power needed to run this camera and Yep, there we go now. It's passing data. So that's it. There's nothing no other lights on this There's no lights on the end of it. The only lights are right here But it's actually really handy having them in the middle right here, and there we go The camera is working. So you see me moving the camera. It's pointing at the studio and point it back at me There's a little bit of a delay We can have it looking down at what it's connected through and That's really it. It's that simple to get that extra range It's it's a dead simple device out of the box No configuration really to do and if you want to put it in a Waterproof thing we're gonna show you that next so this is kind of proof And like I said, we ran this test for a while to know that it works And this only gets ever so slightly warm not anything that I would be concerned with in terms of heat But now let's talk about the actual container that you can put it in for water proofing it The device by itself comes with this little bracket that will clip on like that to hold it so you can put it in the wall mount it to something an Anchor and a screw and we have these devices and these little ends here This is where that gets a little bit more clever. So this is The actual take these little ends off Show you the inserts you put these inserts in here run the cable through put the ends on the cable And there's one on each side that this comes apart So each one of these comes apart drop these in here you'd run the cable through it and then this Comes apart right here And as you can see this fits right in just drop this in so you'd Push the cables through pull them through clip that in there now This is where I think this is clever these little clips right here the ones that would hold the device by itself Will also clip on here. They're all the same the one that holds the unit itself They made this the same so this would go here and now you can mount it outside to a wall or however you want So now you can you know have a mounted outside to very Actually, I think I have it upside down there you go Clicks in there pretty good So it stays pretty sturdy there's a little click on there And then you just end up with one extra one in case you drop someone somewhere where you're doing it outside But they cool that it has that but overall It's a pretty simple device the only thing of note is when you shove these in here this gets stuck in there And you have to push it back out That it jams in there pretty good pretty tight But leaves a little bit of an air gap around it when you're looking through it But overall I think this is a pretty cool solution a lot of people had said they really like these I've talked to a few of my tech friends who have used them And of course some of you Comment it on them as where I discovered them as one people had watched a video me talking about the game changer Cable which I'll leave a link to it I still think that's another solution But if you want to take something like this you have this extended area you got to go through and you want to go that extra Distance and have the POE go through I think this is a pretty cool solution for that So I want to turn a few people on to it This is Tom Lawrence and you can find me over in the forums or comment down below on what you think of this or maybe Tell me about your use cases you have for it. 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