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DIY Power Over Ethernet

I got fed up with the power cable trailing in front of the bathroom door to my ADSL router so I rigged up this simple power-over-ethernet thing. 100Mbit ethernet only uses two of the four pairs in the cat5 cable so I wired the other two to carry the power (see diagram).

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Uploaded on August 2, 2008
Taken on July 31, 2008