

Effortless set-up & start-up

Nice small form factor. LEDS on every port. Metal construction feels solid. Low power consumption and runs cool. Unmanaged - plug and play. I replaced a Linksys 8 port gigabit switch with this one and tested the TP-Link's speed against what I was used to with the old switch. I transferred a 3.7GB file from my WHS11 box to my PC in about a minute. This was a second or two faster than the old switch (roughly equal), but that is what I was hoping for. It would have been a problem if it had been slower, but that was not the case. I also saturated my LAN with video streaming on a PS3, music on a second PC, and transferred a large file on a second PC and everything worked great.


Small, inexpensive, simple setup

Don't cloud register and you can manage it just fine via an admittedly nice web interface. The switch takes a long time to boot, likely vestiges of the cloud integration, but it is quad SFP+/10GB ports and 48 gigabit... and its silent. Does LACP trunking, multiple vlan tagging, IGMPv3 snooping, lldp (never wonder where your AP is connected to again).



Provides power Looks Good Feels Solid

Quality build - in a full metal case the build quality is excellent. Size - at just over 11 inches long and a height of just under 1 inch it can be mounted underneath or on the back of your computer desk. No wasted space - the case is only slightly larger than the area for ports. Easy to mount - a couple of screws to mount it


Worked as it does out of the box Money well spent, I have a 6 year old ASUS M4A78TD/USB3 AMD 870 motherboard with a dying Ethernet Controller. So got it this morning installed it and now that I have this it is the best I have used. I would never use onboard again!




