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I routinely wish someone had designed a power outlet shaped switch that runs on POE.

But some brands would run too hot for an enclosed space and a Netgear one would burn your fucking house down.

I've been pretty happy with Unifi's "In-Wall" AP (e.g. https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/wifi-wall/products/u6-iw): PoE powered, has four downstream RJ45 ports (one with PoE itself), and is a side-firing WiFi AP as well. Like the sibling comment said, they're made for hotel rooms, but I've never been in a hotel fancy enough to use them (possibly because the RJ45 sockets aren't particularly discoverable, being on the bottom). It doesn't live in a power outlet, but it's meant to be mounted at the same height. Worked great for my home office. (I'm not associated with Unifi, just happy with their gear)

Yeah surface mounts aren't bad. Combined switch and Wifi is good.

Seems like for discoverability you'd have to mount it backward or upside down somewhere so that people can see the ports, and then what about the wifi signal? I see what you mean.

I've seen some 'in-wall' access points that might be kind of what you're looking for. Designed for hotels, etc, they have an ethernet port on the back with poe-in, and usually two ethernet ports on the front, and also do wifi.

I have no experience with them, though.

There are modular jacks that can expose 6 or 8 different connectors on one outlet. I just figured the hotel ones were a slightly more sophisticated version of that.

There are some depending on the number of ports you're after. I'm not sure if it would run directly on Poe, but maybe PoE could be converted to USB power to run something like a GL-iNET device or something that sized.

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-b3000/

A bigger issue with ethernet presently and for the last while is unreasonable prices on 10GbE both adapters, switches, etc.

Sticking with other mediums for now for 10GbE

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