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Works as intended. No special setup required. Plug in power and cables. Pairs well with my TP-Link VPN router.

TP-Link makes great networking products that often cost a fraction of the bigger names out there like Netgear, D-Link, and LinkSys, but I've found they're very competitive when it comes to functionality, features and reliability. Build quality can seem cheaper sometimes, but not in this case. +This unmanaged switch is well built. Made of metal and all the RJ-45 jacks are quality metal casings as well. +RJ-45 jacks have link lights on the back, cheaper switches will not have them and might just have a single LED indicator per port. More useful for diagnosing bad connections. +Full-Gigabit connectivity, not shared, so this has non-blocking architecture that can give up to a full Gigabit per port (ie. copy from port 1 to 2 and download to port 3 at same time). +Performs as an unmanaged switch should, just plug from your downstream source (router) and connect multiple devices or clients and everything autonegotiates. +Additional software and UI if you need to do anything more advanced, like set up static IPs, port forwarding, firewall, subnets etc. +Even though I've moved a lot of devices to wireless connections, I still find I have a lot of tethered devices, like consoles, extra desktop PCs, NAS units, powerline adapters etc. I never thought I would need a switch again, but there's just too many things to connect! +Uses very little power and runs extremely cool. Only ~5-8W under load with 5 ports occupied.

8 Ethernet ports with Gigabit speed which should be enough for a normal home use, or to extend the capacity of existing router. I have used a few of similar gigabit switches and performance wise they are all neck to neck with each other. To test the transfer speeds I manually monitored file transfer from my file/storage server (smb server on running on linux mint) to couple of windows 7 machines. Also I monitored transfers between different windows 7 laptops using their gigabit LAN ports (wireless disabled). I have raid 0 on my file server which allows me to get crazy read speeds from the server there by having the potential to achieve gigabit (1Gbps = 128MBps). I was able to get 107 MB/s transfer speed while transferring few videos totaling about 4 GB in size. Transfer speed dropped to 58 MB/s while transferring 89 GB worth of video files from my server. 58 MB/s is still very impressive. When transferring files between my laptops I got around 30MB/s transfer speeds which was mainly limited because of slow write speeds of the laptop HDD (5400 RPM drives). I did simultaneous transfers between 5 different computers and the transfer performance was about the same. Build quality of the switch is very good. It is has a metal housing which makes it very tolerant to abuse, it is not going to break easily by being dropped or stepped upon. This feature is a nice upgrade to my previous TP Link 8 port Gigabit switch which has a plastic housing. IEEE P802.1p QOS should help with VoIP if you often use skype or have a dedicated VoIP telephone service. 5 years warranty is very adequate and makes the price quite reasonable.

Low price, metal case. works just fine. My internet provider speed is about 300 for downloads and this switch / splitter seems to handle it Ok down stream.

- It does what it's supposed to do. - It's small/light/wall-mountable - It looks good

* Nice compact form factor * Included power adapter option is nice * Even nicer is being able to power it off PoE - one less wire/plug socket to deal with * Integrates well with the UniFi Network app, showing what devices are connected to it

Fast performance and PoE+/++ out of the box! Small footprint and overall a performance beast for my network

Small foot print, managed, and gigabit.

Managed, Gigabit, very reasonable price for the features

- 8 gigabit ports for those of us who just can't get by with 4 or 5 ports anymore. - File copies with simultaneous downloads from other devices were fast and flawless. - Solid construction. The case is metal, not plastic. And the weight should keep the switch in place should you snag/pull a cable. - A slew of advanced features that you won't find in cheaper models however most home users (including myself) probably won't use most of them. - Following up on that, if you're into network administration or want to learn, this is a great switch to get and start with. - Port mirroring. This feature was one of the ones I enjoyed using. You can basically 'snoop' on where traffic is going. This is a great way to make sure applications aren't sending information to places they're not supposed to or to see what the kids are up to in the middle of the night when glued to their laptops. - Lower power use which translates to low heat. All in a fanless design.

The switch has a very heavy and quality feel to it. POE+ works great with my cameras, and wireless access points.