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I have a situation that is probably going to become more and more common. I have a large house that was originally wired with cat5 cable to every room for phone lines. There are no longer wired phones in the house and we are trying to figure out how best to leverage all of the wall ports in all of the rooms to make our wireless stronger in all corners of the house. (BTW I know that the ports need to be changed to Ethernet keystone jacks... easily done).  It seems like all "home solutions" assume that the house is not hard wired with home runs and hence utilize a mesh architecture relying on wireless extenders.  Wireless access points are a consideration and work fairly well but sometimes have issues with hand offs or connecting to a weaker AP.

Does anyone know of a more seamless consumer priced solution for my current set up? 

Thanks for everyone's help. I found a solution based on your advice and it works perfectly so I thought I would share it with the forum. I got a POE injector (which adds PoE) for the run that goes to the side of the house.

TRENDnet Gigabit Power Over Ethernet Plus Injector, TPE-115GI, Converts Non-Poe Gigabit to Poe+ or PoE Gigabit, Supplies PoE (15.4W) or PoE+ (30W) Power Network Distances Up to 100 M (328 ft.),Black 29.99 on AMAZON.


and then used the:

TRENDnet 5-Port Gigabit PoE+ Powered EdgeSmart Switch with PoE Pass Through, TPE-P521ES, 1 x Gigabit PoE+ Input, 2 x Gigabit PoE Output, 2 x Gigabit, 18W PoE Budget, Managed Switch, Wall-Mountable 59.99 on amazon.

to split the wired connection on the side of the house.

Thanks again.

[a network switch that uses PoE as its power source]

I need to install an unmanaged network switch in a location that has no power available (on the side of a house)... I have already tried solar with battery backup but with sub optimal results. Does anyone have any experience with a network switch that uses PoE as its power source. Ideally something reasonably priced. Google/amazon searches have been all returned PoE switches where the switch provides the power. I need the opposite where the switch uses the PoE for its own power......
Thanks in advance...