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Anyone can recomm cheap POE switch?
Go to your local Officeworks store, if you are lucky, there might be some on clearance for less than $50. Old D-Link models though, not sure whether they are good or not.
If only need PoE-in (i.e. Switch powered by PoE) then UniFi Flex mini is probably the cheapest (surprise!)
For PoE out or passthrough, TP-Link and Netgear both have some models that are cheap but just works. (SG1005P or SF1005P, GS105PE, etc.)
If you have been thinking to get one or a few of these small networking products you could make a mini rack out of the 'make a bracket' products from Bunnings.
Perfect, picked up too as well. Cheers OP
I moved into a new house, and I have no idea where the Ethernet ports on the wall are connected to. I looked on the wall and in the wardrobes, but cannot find any wall plates with multiple ports. Any suggestions?
Garage, master bedroom closet, lastly… Roof
Failing that ask the builder for the drawings, council gave them to me and the builder for free.
We moved into a new house too but points were in the garage
Thank you for the suggestions! I checked everywhere…. Contacting the council is a great idea.
Got a horror story for ya.
House had single ports in most rooms.
Searched everywhere for the comms box.
Grabbed a cable tester and … they were all daisy-chained from the connection outside.
Meaning I could connect my NBN "modem" to any port and it would work but then the rest of the ports were absolutely useless.
I even opened it up to confirm. There was a Cat 5e cable from room to room and only two pair connecting it all vomits in mouth
Sounds like Cat5 was cheaper to buy than two-pair phone cable…
At least you can reroute it and terminate all the rooms in one location in the ceiling, so that's something of benefit
Bought two of these last time they were on sale, very happy with them.
I wish this 1GB ethernet, technology older than 20 years, would finally die.
Any good buys for 2.5GB and better?
Unfortunately nothing near this value.
Once you start paying $40 per 2.5Gbe port, you might as well fully commit to a 10G fibre network for the same price. Get a bunch of NC5552SFP adapters from eBay, fill in short runs with SFP copper cables and the rest with some OM3 fibre and paired transcievers, and you're basically still price even for a small network.
Can I attach 2 of these together to create a 9 port switch?
Absolutely
This works well if you have a long run between two groups of devices, since if you have everything close together you would generally go for a bigger 8-port or more combined switch, but this would still work fine.
Can someone confirm that this effectively becomes 4 extra ports once you plug in one port from the modem, right?
Correct.
Best way to remember is that a 'router' has fancy features inbuilt like the firewall, DNS, sometimes VPN endpoints and wifi - all stuff that requires configuration to work.
A 'switch' will not have any of these features, and acts as a dumb splitter just adding extra ethernet ports. If the description specifies 'switch' instead of 'router' then you're golden.
Thank you.
A couple more questions:
1. Since a switch comes off one LAN port (say gigabit) does that mean that if you get an 8-port switch then 7 ports on the switch are sharing the bandwidth of the routers port you plugged it into?
2. I am after an 8-port hence the question above, is it worth spending any more than $25 (like on the LS1008G) for something better?
1 is correct, yes. For example, a 50mbps NBN connection is shared between all your PC's and phones - even if you have a gigabit home network. The single point becomes a bottleneck if saturated. The same principle applies anywhere else in the network. However, the effect is a lot less when your upstream connection is the same speed at the rest - like having your port 8 being connected to your router.
Because of the above, your query 2 means it generally isn't worth spending more, no. You won't get any benefits until your go for commercial features like SFP fibre ports and the like, which are well beyond 95% of users. $25 is a great price
Lovely, just what I needed - bought 2