I can't seem to find much info on them but has anyone had any experience with them.
Ive just ordered a 16 port one.
Tenda Network Switches
Gros21 on 21/06/2023 - 01:19
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Been running a 8 (or 9) port Tenda POE switch for the last 18 months. Zero issues.
CCP on top of the preventative maintenance ey. Good to know.
4 port Tenda POE running for about 1 year. No issues.
8 port, unmanaged. Ticked the right boxes for me (all plugs on the same side). No issues with it.
Unmanaged switch?
A switch is a switch is a switch. Brand doesn't matter- they are cheap and incredibly reliable. As far as tech goes, they are about as commodity as sliced white bread.
Maybe if you're some kinda crazy enthusiast with a home lab then you'd look at stuff like backplane capacity, but otherwise, it doesn't matter.
Buy on price and form factor.
Backplane? Or backhaul?
Switches have internal backplanes which basically connect all the ports.
Backhaul is something else and not to do with switches.
while correct a dumb switch is pretty basic some may have limiting process power or not be able to saturate the full 16 ports. Which is unlikely going to be an issue for me. But from what i read they are not all created equal.
My network will be pretty basic just want to make sure its not a known troublesome unit wa slooking at getting a used 48 port managed one, thought id look at manual to see if it was simply to run it unmanaged and it was 1700 pages long
That's what my comment about backplanes was addressing. If you can guarantee that you'll have 80% of the ports all dumping a full gig at the same time, then you worry about backplane capacity.
But seriously, unmanaged switches are all much of a muchness. The big difference between 'serious' ones and generic knock about home ones is whether they can take fibre ports or what sort of maintenance support contracts you can get with enterprise ones.
If you want to buy a 48 port managed switch, especially used (i.e. old Cisco beast) then be prepared to pay hundreds a year in power. Some of those old Cisco/Junipers burn >200W idle.
For the purposes of a home user who is not running a lab/VLANs/PoE, yes, they are essentially all created equal. Biggest difference is probably something purely preference based, like whether they take AC power direct or have DC power bricks. There's bugger all to really differentiate them. Get the cheap one, or get the pretty one (I have bought switches purely for the nicer metal casing).
Tenda is recognised brand. Popular in parts of Asia and India. Nothing wrong with a Tenda switch because there is so little to go wrong with one.
I have an unmanaged 8 port one. If you just want a place to stick a bunch of Ethernet connected gear, it is fine. Haven’t had to touch it.