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Works Great!

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2024

Needed to make an upgrade and this product looked highly rated here. Easy install and all ports are working as intended. I expect this switch to last several years. It feels sturdy and doesn’t get too warm with over half the ports in use. Good deal.

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M. Paolini

I wanted to love it, but could not at least in Texas

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2024

The 5 port 10GbE fanless switch works mostly as advertised, and worked with everything I threw at it. HOWEVER, it gets incredibly hot during use with 10GbE. Like over 105F hot, and it functions as a space heater. Performance seems to degrade as it heats up - but it is wonderful till then.

Really wanted to love it and keep it.

Might be fine for winter climates, but here in Texas I don't see this this version as a viable 10GbE option. Shifted to a different brand with a Fan (from Monkerlink 8x10GbE managed switch for about the same price) - that one is loud for 2 mins, and then silent for a minute. It is annoying, but better than heating the room and dropping performance as well (and I'll probably replace the fan in the Monkerlink with a quiet after market, or just get some longer cables to move it further way.

If they do a version 2 with less heat issue, I would pick it up as I like TP-Link in general.

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Eric R

Works Great!

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2024

Style: UnmanagedVerified Purchase

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Haggerty

Works great, right out of the box!

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2024

Style: 8 Port | 10GVerified Purchase

There isn't a lot to say about an unmanaged 8-port switch. It works, it came with all possible required mounting hardware and a power cable, and it provides 10GBE links as advertised. I recently upgraded to 8 gigabit internet service, and needed a switch that could do 10GBE. Since it natively uses ethernet, I did not need to purchase any SFP modules or worry about fiber cabling. It works well both over 10GB link to my home server and for the 2.5GB links to 2 gaming PCs, and properly auto-negotiates the correct speeds. I wish it was a bit cheaper, but 2.5 & 5GB support are new, and a cost comes with new technology. It is a lot quieter and more power-efficient than using an old enterprise 10GB switch.

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Tomas Falschnamen

Worked perfectly for Google Fiber

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2023

Style: 5 Port | 2.5GVerified Purchase

It's quiet, plug and play, easy to use, a little larger than other 4-port switches, but overall smaller than most. It's quiet and doesn't get too hot. The switch did fail within a year, but it was under warranty, and the process to get a replacement was easy.

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Austin Powered

Finally, An Easy Way to Get More Than 1 Gigabit

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2021

Style: 5 Port | 2.5GVerified Purchase

Upgraded my home Internet to 2 gigabit fiber, and home fileserver with SSD storage, so I bought the TP-Link 8-port TL-SG108-M2 and 5-port TL-SG105-M2 to upgrade my home network to multi-gigabit speed. It was easy to swap my old gigabit switches with these TP-Link 2.5 giggers, using my existing ethernet cables.

Per-port lights made it obvious which ports run at 2.5 gigabit, 1 gigabit, and 100 megabit. I loved the fan-less design - zero noise coming from these TP-Link switches. I will never buy a fan-based switch again - they collect dust, and eventually die unless kept clean.

Speed:

Tested throughput extensively using iperf3 on the local network, and speedtest.net for Internet speed.

LAN (local network) bandwidth tests reliably 2.3 gigabit average between two computers. Same speed when 2 computers are on the same switch, and when they are connected switch-to-switch. This was a HUGE improvement over a gigabit network which maxed out at about 0.95 gigabits.

Was worried whether my investment would actually get close to 2.5 gigabit, especially switch-to-switch, but they did! Two TP-Link switches are linked with a 40-foot in-wall Cat-6 cable, and computers can get 2.3 gigabit between the two switches.

Internet speed tested at 2.0 gigabit download and 910 megabit upload with Google Fiber 2 Gig!

The TP-Links were fully backward compatible with 1 gigabit and 100 megabit devices and switches. Connected various slower devices including a gigabit switch (1gig), a Ubiquiti AC Lite AP (1gig), a printer (100meg), and voice-over-IP box (100meg).

Heat: These TP-Link switches get slightly warm but never hot.

Ethernet Adapters: Using Sabrent 2.5 Gigabit NT-S25G USB 3.0 adapters on all my computers, since none of my computers came with 2.5 gigabit as of mid-2021. I had some auto-negotiation issues on bootup, where the adapter would sync at 100 mbit or 1 gbit (not 2.5gig) when the adapter powered on. After boot, I would manually adjust the driver's speed setting from auto-negotiate to 2.5 gigabit, or 2.5 gigabit to auto-negotiate, which would re-sync at 2.5-gig with the switch. Contacted Sabrent support who also believed the issue was with the latest Realtek driver, a fix may be coming soon.

Another reviewer here believed the TP-Links are responsible for auto-negotiate issues, it may be a TP-Link issue but I'm not sure. When I connected my TP-Link 2.5 gig switches to each other, they always synced at 2.5 gig. Same with the Google Fiber router's 1/2.5/5/10 port which always auto-negotiated at 2.5 gig. Only my Realtek-chip adapters would sync at lower speed on initial power-on. I figured out that by plugging my 2.5gig adapters into always-on USB 3.0 ports via USB 3.0 hub, kept the adapters locked at 2.5 gigabit even after the PC rebooted.

When my adapters did sync at lower speed, a quick re-sync of the driver would fix it. On Windows, Network Connections (Control Panel), double-click the adapter, Configure, Advanced tab, Speed & Duplex, switch it to "2.5 gig full" or "auto-negotiate", either will trigger the adapter to re-try its link to the TP-Link. On Linux, after boot, run: ethtool -s enx002341234567 autoneg on advertise 0x80000000002f (replacing the enx002... with your device name)

Ethernet Cables: My rooms have Jadaol flat Cat-6 cables that range in length from 1-foot to 25-feet, all worked with 2.5 gigabit. My home had professionally-installed Cat-6 in-wall cabling, with some cable lengths up to 40 feet long, all worked with 2.5 gigabit.

Is this worth the price:

If your Internet speed is more than 1 gigabit, then yes! If you transfer files between computers that have SSDs capable of more than 125 megabytes per second, then yes! Otherwise, no. One gigabit is plenty fast for nearly everyone's needs. If you do buy one, you can keep your existing 1 gig switch for your gigabit devices, and plug your multi-gigabit devices into one of these TP-Link 2.5 giggers.

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Darwin's Dilemma

Works well, but one annoying feature...

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2024

Style: 8 Port | 2.5GVerified Purchase

As a switch it has worked very well. Good fast connections. I also like the indicator lights, they clearly show if you have a 10/100, Gigabit, or 2.5 Gigabit device connected. What I absolutely hate is that they put the Ethernet connectors on one side and the power input on the opposite side. So, with the way many people (including me) use it, you have a really hard time managing cables and getting it to fit into a clean installation. I am actually going to replace it for that one stupid reason. Otherwise it's a great switch.

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Delbert Matlock

Works good, and a metal case

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2023

Style: UnmanagedVerified Purchase

Bought to replace an 8-port switch for my home's main network concentration point after outgrowing the old one. No need for a managed switch in my simple home environment, so this one does the job. What I like about this switch is the metal case (vs. plastic for many desktop switches) and holes for wall mounting. It has been in place for a couple of years now and has had zero issues. Of course, home only has about three dozen devices so the switch isn't being pushed too hard. Many of those devices are connecting via WiFi mesh pods (half a dozen hung off the switch) and three sub-switches in rooms that have multiple hard-wired devices.

The only issue I've ever had is a packet storm from a malfunctioning device. The switch has no way to detect and block this type of event so one device flooding its connection can shutdown the entire network. Most likely, no unmanaged switch will handle this type of event though.

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William H.

Simple, Reliable, & Inexpensive

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2024

Style: 5 Port | 10GVerified Purchase

This switch replace my gigabit switch simply by swapping out the hardware. It has had no issues, and delivers top speed as advertised. TP-Link is an excellent brand, and I was happy to find it on sale.

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Psycho Dad

Well made, dependable name

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2024

Style: UnmanagedVerified Purchase

I ordered 2 of these after having some issues with older equipment.

I like that they are made in a metal housing, not the plastic some use. After buying 2 of their 8 port models, I decided to go with this 16 port model. My one 8 port was already filled and felt it just made sense for expansion as I prefer hardwired device speeds over the WiFi type and no interference from all the wireless signals I have.

Not a ding as I don't believe it's the ports vs older cables had hardened over time and therefore hard to get the cable locks to set. Hence why I swapped out the old cables for newer Cat8's as well.

Overall, yes, my speed went back up into the range I expected. Decent price on these unmanaged 16 port switches. Do the connections, power em up and nothing more to be done short of a speed test

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Mat B.

Has a 3 year warranty and works great.

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2024

Style: 8 Port | 2.5GVerified Purchase

Connect your router to any port and it should work. Not just the 1st or 8th port. I only needed 4 ports but got the one with 7 (8) ports so I can run a cable to every room in the house. I use my phone with a usb-c to Ethernet adapter because wifi is not as secure as wired. And since the wifi with att router only hits roughly 750-950mb/s this allows me to maximize the 2 gig bandwidth. Will you need it? Probably only for your computer so just get a 1 gbit port switch unless you have multiple computers or servers running. You can get one for around half price for 12-16 ports. You really don't need this much switching power but I'm not complaining. May be overkill but it's future proof as more and more devices exceed the 1 gbit/s barrier. Highly recommend this brand and product.

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Amazon Customer

Super easy to use

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2024

Style: UnmanagedVerified Purchase

Plug and play. Super easy to use. Almost too easy. Thought I had missed some instructions... Nope, none needed. Literally plug them all in and done

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