The setup that doesn't work looks incorrect. PoE is mostly about wiring rules. I can't fit the class into this small space but in short, on PoE each device is a home run to the PoE switch.
This is what I need to do. I ran one Cat 6 line to an office room. This room needs 5 phone lines. I purchased a PoE switch with 8 connections. There is an existing network. When I cabled the new PoE switch to the network, and plugged in the Cat 6 line to one of the PoE lines the phones did not work. When I place the PoE switch in the office room, and added lines to each phone, and ran a ethernet cable in each PoE jack it worked. What am I doing wrong? How to I get the PoE switch to work in the server room, and not run so much cable?

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