It works exactly as advertised. I got it for $18 on sale which is a great deal for a 8-port Gigabit switch. It has a very solid build quality.
I have six of the GS108's and decided to try the GS308 for a printer setup - worked right out of the box.
- Solid build quality. Steel housing. - PoE standard is 802.3af (too bad not 802.3at PoE+) and delivers 55W across 4 ports. For a business solution, maybe you'd need more, but for an 8-port switch it is pretty good. PoE does have port priority and overload arrangement. - Managed switch, L2 switching features: Link Aggregation, Port Mirroring and VLANs. - Fanless design. - Seems to power my UniFi UAP-AC-PRO with no problems. - So far so good, excellent performance on my Gigabit network. Transfer speeds are saturating at ~1Gbps.
This is a non-blocking (i.e. bandwidth between any pair of port is independent of other pair), full duplex 5 port Gigabit switch with nice sturdy metallic construction and supports jumbo frame support. There are 2 LED per port, one green (Gigabit/s) and one orange (100Mbit/s) to identify port speed. There's a green power LED as well. It connects flawlessly with laptops, desktops, and other ethernet switches. It does not heat up, stays lukewarm even when all ports are operational.
Provides power Looks Good Feels Solid
Works like a charm. I have it hooked up through a D-Link DIR-655. The devices on this switch are my Panasonic DVD, QNAP NAS, and occasionally the PS3. Works great!
* 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
My favorite part about this is the QoS feature. I have my PC set to the highest priority, followed by my PS4, then my PSTV and XBox 360, and then my TV is on the lowest priority. I know the QoS feature works because I ran speed tests on my TV and my PC and there's a good 10mb/s difference between their connection speeds. I also like the colored lights. If the device the switch is hooked up to supports 10/100/1000 LAN, the light is green, otherwise orange. This is on a per device basis, so that you can easily see which devices you can safely give a lower priority to since they can't take advantage of full gigabit LAN anyway.
Small - can be put anywhere Long chord - can be away from the desk 4 ports - just in case you get something new there's extra ports
The addition of the TP-Link absolutely added speed to my SOHO network which is a mix between Ethernet, wireless, IP surveillance cameras and powerline. The smart features solved bottleneck issues. Noise is important to me because of the equipment room location and this is a quiet unit. That was a factor in my purchase decision.
Nice switch and setup pretty simple
-Metal construction -Ease of setup
No setup, just connect all device and ... that`s it!
-Whisper quite -Many Features -Web GUI or phone app to manage it -You have to know what your doing or at least read the manual.
- Full 2.5gbps speed on all ports! - It does the job without any compromise. I've saturated the 2.5gb ports many times and it performs well.