Quote Originally Posted by J View Post
Are you talking about a powered switch? Or something else when you say multiport adapter?

Powered switches work great for anything PoE. Cameras, phones, some WAPs even run great from them.
Not PoE...

Ethernet over power utilizing power lines in the house. Plug into an outlet w/ an adapter and an adapter on the other end acts like the other end of the line. Essentially piggybacks the copper in the wall and an adapter decrypts it and gives the data to the other end.

Like this:

https://www.amazon.com/ACTIONTEC-Pow...+power+adapter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-line_communication

Basically, I'd have a multi-port adapter coming from a wall outlet (power) | 4 patch cables >>>> 1 switch to converge, and then 1 patch cable from switch out to router.

I'd totally do PoE instead, but that would require running cable, different cameras, etc. I'm trying to avoid that and use existing electrical line copper and cameras on-hand.

Main thing is just I've never had a switch converging my signals in the mix. I dunno how well that might play w/ the adapters.