Web Managed Switch Recommendations? (USED)
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The ubiquiti switch looks great, the reason I went with the zyxel is it looked like it offered the most features at the lowest price point.
The ubiquiti switch looked to me like it offered:
- Less PoE budget
- Less PoE ports
- Excellent customer support
- Better GUI
- Better brand name
Ultimately I was already going over what I wanted to spend by getting the Zyxel so I didn't want to spend $10 more.
It seems like the zyxel checks a lot of the boxes and offers a lot at a great price point. Right now I only "need" the one PoE port, but I'll be moving relatively soon and probably adding another AP, and in the future probably 1-2 IP cams and possibly VOIP. My network will eventually outgrow 8 ports but for now I thought having >4 ports of PoE might last me longer. And even when I outgrow the 8 ports I'm thinking I could just connect to a larger switch and use up to 7 of the ports as PoE?
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Having POE on your switch is not a requirement for AP, Camera's, phones - etc… You really should be able to just use injectors..
That switch is only poe, not poe+ right? And doesn't do passive 24v that the non pro models of the unifi AP use. So your going to just add Pro models? If your talking budget the unifi lite models are better price point.
While sure using POE makes for cleaner look, and less power plugs needed by your switch. Its not normally something you go for when budget is of concern. If were going for a poe switch would make sure it support at and af, and then passive 24 would be icing on the cake if using unifi. If was me I would of gotten the 200-300$ 8-16 port poe switch from unifi. Does 802.3af/at and passive on all ports with 150w available..
But does look like a very reasonable price point with way more features than the tplink that is for sure.. Let us know how it works out once you get playing with some of the other features like rmon and snmp and syslog support.
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It says it supports at and af, I didn't see anything about 24v passive though.
I was planning on adding AC Pros, but honestly I didn't research the PoE compatibility. I just got lucky and the pro works on it.PoE want initially something I cared about, but when the TPlink didn't really work out for me I wanted to replace it with something that had a few more features.
It was nice taking away a power cable and an Ethernet cable :) but yeah certainly not a necessity. -
Ah the wording on the amazon page was a bit hazy.. But from the spec site it does show both
https://www.zyxel.com/products_services/8-10-16-24-48-port-GbE-Smart-Managed-Switch-GS1900-Series/
IEEE 802.3af PoE (GS1900-8HP/10HP/24HP/48HP)
IEEE 802.3at PoE plus (GS1900-8HP/10HP/24HP/48HP)But on the amazon site it just says
High-power PoE+ support IEEE 802.3at (70W Budget)Looks like a pretty good choice.. Have fun with it!!!
