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Used for: More than a year
Passive power off the line means no socket at the midpoint
No weatherproof housing, so you provide your own box
Works exactly as described, but do not imagine you can simply leave it in a hedge. Mine lives in a cheap plastic junction box on a fence post and has survived two winters that way.
Used for: More than a year
Turned an unreliable long run into a reliable one
The documentation assumes you already understand passive power
Bought after a CCTV camera at the end of the drive spent a winter dropping off every time it rained. The cable had been run by somebody optimistic and the 80 metres of it were well past what that camera could cope with. Sitting this in the middle has stopped the problem completely and there has not been a single dropout since, wet or dry.
Used for: More than a year
It sits in a box on a post and is simply forgotten about
Three years in a fence post box and the link has never dropped
Used for: Less than a month
Straight into the middle of the run and the link came up
No mounting hardware in the box
The garden office had been on a wireless bridge that fell over whenever the trees were wet. Cut into the existing buried cable, dropped this into the middle of it, and it has been a proper wired connection ever since. Nothing whatever to configure, which is the best sort of product!
Used for: 3–6 months
No power needed at the midpoint, which was the whole problem
You have to supply your own weatherproofing
The point of it is that there is no socket halfway down a field, and it solves precisely that. Four months of rain later, still passing a full gigabit
Used for: More than a year
Solved a run that was too long, and quietly
You will need an enclosure for it
Cheapest solution to a very long cable run, by miles
Used for: 3–6 months
Cheaper than fibre and far easier than digging the garden again
Getting the passive voltage right takes some reading
Used one to reach a summerhouse at the end of a garden where the cable was already in the ground and about 20 metres too long to work reliably. This fixed it for the price of an afternoon. The only part that needed thought was the power. Passive injection is not the same thing as the standard sort, and you do need to check what voltage you are putting down the line before you plug anything into either end.
Used for: 6–12 months
A wired link to the barn with no power supply out there
The run to the barn is about 140 metres and it never worked properly on a single cable, which is exactly the problem this is built for. Dropped it in halfway, took its power off the same cable, and there have been nine months of full gigabit since!