looks the business, and works the business too
Very professional looking piece of kit. built out of metal casing, and is as big as one of those rack computers themselves. The power cord is a standard PC power cord, and plugs right into the case (this means the power supply is inside the case). I also have the 5 and 8 port versions, which are made of plastic casing, and the power supply is inside the plug itself. This means the 24 port version looks very sturdy and professional, whereas the 5/8 port versions look more flimsy. Having said that, they all work flawlessly, unlike the ZyXel, which costs more and blows up only after half an hour's use (I did have a replacement from EBuyer, which seems to work without any further problem so far).
what could possibly be better than this? Brilliant
I bought this 16 Port switch to connect up my growing connected home, which was previously lashed together with two basic 4 port 10/100 mbps switches.
I have connected up a BT Home Hub v3 (also acts as a WiFi access point), Microsoft Windows Media Centre, Xbox360, Freesat Box with BBC iPlayer, Five additional Ethernet ports in other rooms, and a second Wifi Access Point (TP-Link TL-WA701ND 150Mbps Wireless Lite N Access Point ) = 10 Ports used in Total.
All plug and Play. As I have two wireless access points I just had to make the TP-Link access point get its ip address from the BT Home Hub's DHCP server so that ip addresses were not duplicated.
The TP-Link 16 Port Switch has a solid metal casing that gives it a feel of huge quality compared with the plastic casing on the TP-Link WiFi access point BUT both products work very well indeed and are priced very well.
Good value, good quality
Nice switch. Not over-sized, but pleasantly surprised to find rack mount ears included. Simple, no configuration, working fine with our other switches and router.
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