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T**M
An easy plug and play switch with POE
Buying a budget POE switch isn’t as easy as it seems. I chose this product because I needed a Poe 802.3af switch for 4K cctv cameras and possibly a POE powered access point in the future. Most of the budget switches are only 10/100mb which isn’t fast enough for 3 4K cameras. From my research this product was the cheapest gigabit switch at the time of buying.The switch itself works great, just plug and go. It’s been in the loft for 3 months and I haven’t had any connection drops and I haven’t needed to restart it. 4 of the ports are Poe and there is a light indicator on the back side to show when Poe is in use.This product isn’t rack mountable and unlike most switches the lights are on the opposite side to the plugs, this means depending on the orientation of the switch you have to turn it round to check if it’s connected, however it does look neat if it’s on a table with the cables passing down the back. It should be noted this doesn’t support POE+ so anything that is power hungry may struggle.
I**L
Does what it says
This does exactly what it says on it's sturdy metal tin. It's an 8 port switch, four of which support power over ethernet (PoE). It's completely 'plug & play' with no configuration at all. I'm currently using it to power my wifi access point, which has PoE, and my broadband modem (using a PoE splitter).I initially tested it with a Scatterbox PoE splitter and that worked perfectly. Then when I tried a TP-Link splitter, it refused to work. Oddly, this turned out to be a problem with the ethernet cable, and all other cables I tried worked perfectly. I've no idea why this one cable caused an issue. Maybe the power wires were crossed over and the Scatterbox could deal with reversed polarity, whilst the TP-Link splitter couldn't, but that's just pure speculation.Apart from that one weird cable issue, it works absolutely perfectly. I'm really happy with it and would definitely recommend.
S**E
Small but sturdy
My ISP box is located in an awkward place; the power sockets are on the opposite side of the room to where the cable comes into the house, but it is in the perfect position to run a wire upstairs to my computer without being too obvious.Rather than running a thick power cable across to it, I have this POE switch upstairs by the computer, and power the router via POE and a splitter, basically making it a low voltage, one wire system, that I can hide away anywhere.I have other small, wifi enabled, switches around the house that I can hide in book cases and simply run a single cable for both data and power, thus cutting down clutter. Running a single Cat6 out into the garden for a Wifi access point is a lot simpler than having to run power as well.Just make sure you get Gb compatible splitters; I had older 10/100 boxes, which obviously throttled the bandwidth.
A**N
Tiny for what it's capable of
This thing is small which works out for me in my limited space for networking gear. It's currently powering my MikroTik CSS326-24G-2S+RM (With a passive Ubiquiti 24V 0.5A injector) and a Raspberry Pi 4 B and potentially some CCTV cameras in the future. Temperatures are good which surprised me, especially with how compact it is.I've only been using this for 3 days but I'm so far pretty impressed. Obviously if there's any issues or if/when I get some CCTV cameras set up, I'll edit this review with an update.
H**E
Good switch, Would be nice if it did 802.11az and consumed less power.
Quite happy with the switch. I needed a POE switch to power some CCTV cameras and also wanted it to be gigabit so I can hook it up to my NAS and my CCTV DVR. I'm pleased to say its functioning just fine and I've had no problems with either POE or with regular gigabit networking on it. I can easily max out the gigabit port on my computer pulling 110MB/sec from my NAS to my workstation. My only gripe is the external power brick as I'm not sure why it could not have been incorporated into the switch itself. But thats a minor issue. It's 8 port and 4 of the ports are POE capable.Pros:Sturdy metal constructionTotally silent operationGood switch bandwidth (16 Gigabits, so each port can do 1Gbit in full duplex)Cons:Consumes a fair amount of powerIt doesn't do 802.11az (green / efficient ethernet) which in 2015 is a bit disappointing.Big external power brick adapter
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