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Do you know anyone who actually uses power over Ethernet? Every motherboard I've ever bought supports it, but I don't know anyone who uses it.
Although the inverse, networking through your power line certainly used to be a thing. It looks like people still do it sometimes.
PoE is amazing for certain devices. Cameras (including video doorbells), and WiFi equipment.
I use it on every phone handset at work... I guess it's the switch PoE not the pc mobo but the effect is the same. If you are talking pc mobo PoE I guess it could be handy if you had a PoE camera...
I use a powerline network adapter to this day
That's Ethernet over power
I know, I was responding to him saying that used to be done