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[Prime] TP-Link 8-Port Gigabit Switch - TL-SG108 - $35.24 Delivered @ Amazon UK via AU

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[Prime] TP-Link 8-Port Gigabit Switch - TL-SG108 - $35.24 Delivered @ Amazon UK via AUAffiliate
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Decent price for this el-cheapo 8-port Ethernet switch.

  • 8× 10/100/1000Mbps Auto-Negotiation RJ45 ports supporting Auto-MDI/MDIX
  • Green Ethernet technology saves power consumption
  • IEEE 802x flow control provides reliable data transfer
  • Steel housing, desktop or wall-mounting design

Edit [25/09/2023 4:28 pm]: The deal is for Amazon UK, but you can get one from Amazon AU for $36.43 Amazon AU deal expired.

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  • fruitloafer on 25/09/2023 - 07:27
    +2

    Unmanaged switch if that is what you're after. This managed switch from Netgear is good value for an 8 port unit:

    https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/aw/d/B077DFFZMY?psc=1&ref=ppx_p…

    • milobob on 25/09/2023 - 07:29
      +9

      Cheap for a managed switch. But most people (home use) probably don't need a managed switch?

      • zangbangapda on 25/09/2023 - 08:13
        +4

        Need, is the wrong criteria for discussion here.

        • rumblytangara on 25/09/2023 - 09:18
          +16

          Anyone who works in IT and can mange it. Wifi sucks for uninterrupted uptime.

            • rumblytangara on 25/09/2023 - 09:22
              +5

              @1st-Amendment: This is your question:

              Who is still using wires 2023?

              Haha, easily flustered much?

              • 1st-Amendment on 25/09/2023 - 09:26
                -7

                @rumblytangara:

                Haha, easily flustered much?

                Why do you assume I'm flustered? I can assure you that I'm smirking right now at the poorly thought out opinions on display…

            • howcan on 25/09/2023 - 09:33
              +9

              @1st-Amendment: Working in IT doesn't miraculously negate the cons of Wifi or bypass the laws of physics and radio wave propagation. It's suitable for some applications, for a lot of others, it's not.

              • smartblaa on 25/09/2023 - 20:15
                +1

                @howcan: This reminds me of the time an executive in my work thought by making everything wireless he'd not have to worry about all of those expensive comms rooms and cabling! Look behind the AP mate!

              • 1st-Amendment on 26/09/2023 - 08:46
                -4

                @howcan:

                Working in IT doesn't miraculously negate the cons of Wifi or bypass the laws of physics and radio wave propagation.

                But if you understand these things then they can all be quite easily mitigated, and hence are no longer a con.
                How do you think the entire Satellite/Cellular/Wireless world works? Smoke and mirrors?

                The idea that wifi cannot be useful for most people is just absurd.

                It's suitable for some applications, for a lot of others, it's not.

                For home users, it's suitable in almost ALL applications.
                I don't know anyone with a fully wired home network. Laptops, tablets, and mobiles are quite popular these days in case you didn't notice, not many wires there…

                • rumblytangara on 26/09/2023 - 10:15
                  +1

                  @1st-Amendment:

                  How do you think the entire Satellite/Cellular/Wireless world works? Smoke and mirrors?

                  By best efforts, with common failures, and lots of signal interference. Look at the problem of cellular blackspots being still being common across metropolitan Australia, let alone rural areas.

                  The idea that wifi cannot be useful for most people is just absurd.

                  Of course wifi is useful. Has anyone said otherwise? I'm sure everyone on this forum is using it.

                  But that's certainly backpedalling hard from your original question of

                  Who is still using wires 2023?

                  Somebody else's earlier comment of Dunning kruger is spot on. Haven't seen someone insist on failing so hard, so loudly for a while- this is a great little diversion.

                  • 1st-Amendment on 26/09/2023 - 11:23
                    -2

                    @rumblytangara:

                    I'm sure everyone on this forum is using it.

                    Yeah so take a chill pill. Everyone uses wireless, crisis averted…

                    But that's certainly backpedalling hard from your original question of

                    It was a bit of humour and you got triggered by it. ' OMFGZ… he doesn't know what wires are for!!!'

                    A wise man once said 'When in a hole, stop digging'… maybe listen to piece of advice…

                • howcan on 26/09/2023 - 13:44
                  +2

                  @1st-Amendment:

                  But if you understand these things then they can all be quite easily mitigated, and hence are no longer a con.

                  "easily" migitaged? Lol, yes, that's right, the easiest way to mitigate shortfalls of wireless solutions is to… run a cable.

                  How do you think the entire Satellite/Cellular/Wireless world works? Smoke and mirrors?

                  Satellite? Poorly, with poor capacity, periods of interference and higher latency than physical cables. And expensive.
                  Cellular? Poor again, ever tried to make a phone call in a basement or a big carpark? If it works it's because they most likely have a micro-cell or a repeater solution, connected with….cables.
                  Wireless? Go ask any NBN user on Fixed Wireless how pathetically slow and congested the service and the amount of dropouts they experience. Adding more capacity is hugely expensive.

                  The idea that wifi cannot be useful for most people is just absurd.

                  No one ever claimed Wifi is not useful for most people. From what orifice did you pull this from?

                  For home users, it's suitable in almost ALL applications.
                  I don't know anyone with a fully wired home network. Laptops, tablets, and mobiles are quite popular these days in case you didn't notice, not many wires there…

                  Duh - everyone would have Wifi at home in 2023, no one claimed anything about running a wired only network. But your ridiculous assertion that no one uses wires anymore, even at home, well go and ask any serious gamer or anyone else running latency sensitive applications what they're using, or anyone transferring large files on a regular basis over their home network. They're not gonna be sitting there putting up with shit Wifi signal, channel interference and jitter.

                  Your strange claim that 'someone working in IT shouldn't have too many problems' just shows you have zero technical knowledge of either networking solution and you think some IT guy can just click a setting and overcome all these issues.

                  • 1st-Amendment on 26/09/2023 - 15:27
                    -3

                    @howcan:

                    the easiest way to mitigate shortfalls of wireless solutions is to… run a cable.

                    Is it? I ran a mesh, that was easier for me…

                    No one ever claimed Wifi is not useful for most people.

                    So go back and read the thread form the top and see if you can work out where you went off the rails…

                    But your ridiculous assertion that no one uses wires anymore

                    It was humorous off the cuff comment which you and a few others got overly triggered by. Again, read from the top there's nothing controversial there, it's like a bunch of rabid IT nerds got offended becasue I defiled their deity…

                    well go and ask any serious gamer or anyone else running latency sensitive applications what they're using,

                    Go back and the thread all the way to the top. Your 1% use cases are completely out of context.

                    • howcan on 26/09/2023 - 16:06
                      +1

                      @1st-Amendment:

                      Is it? I ran a mesh, that was easier for me…

                      So you are everyone and everything?

                      So go back and read the thread form the top and see if you can work out where you went off the rails…

                      All I can see is you publicly embarrassing yourself….

                      It was humorous off the cuff comment which you and a few others got overly triggered by.

                      ….then desperately attempting to save face by claiming your post was humour. It clearly wasn't humour, as you've now doubled down on the same position trying to argue that it WAS correct. Pick a lane champ 😂

                      Again, read from the top there's nothing controversial there, it's like a bunch of rabid IT nerds got offended becasue I defiled their deity…

                      Ah that's right, now because you aren't able to argue the technicalities of your wild claims, everyone is an offended and rabid "IT nerd". Oh dear. It's been fun, but let's leave it at that 🤣

                    • rumblytangara on 26/09/2023 - 19:59
                      +2

                      @1st-Amendment:

                      It was humorous off the cuff comment which you and a few others got overly triggered by. Again, read from the top there's nothing controversial there, it's like a bunch of rabid IT nerds got offended becasue I defiled their deity…

                      You made what you thought was a clever joke, everyone else thought it was stupid, and then you scramble around like a hyperactive cat trying to come back and claim everyone else was triggered. When in fact we're laughing in disbelief.

                      This is a thread about a deal for an ethernet switch. You are surprised that half the people paying attention are IT nerds and use know how to use ethernet switches? That's like being surprised at a deal for beer being full of people who like to drink.

                      On the other hand, you clearly know nothing about the subject matter, so you fail to be a nerd (I have the sneaking suspicion that you don't even know what a mesh network is, given the way you describe other wireless technologies) and you fail to be funny at the same time. It's just all around fail, but it's certainly been amusing to watch you alternate between "it's just jokes" and "I desperately want to be technically right1!!"

            • Pwoar on 25/09/2023 - 09:51
              +4

              @1st-Amendment: Dunning kruger effect on show here.

        • Dsiee on 25/09/2023 - 09:21
          +11

          Who still thinks wireless is better if wired is an option (in 2023)?

          • mit on 25/09/2023 - 09:52
            +1

            @Dsiee: So true.

            But the real question is, what dumbass doesn't either Google their question before asking or ask it in a more constructive manner? The number of people that just don't think before doing things is astounding. They say Google trained us to be this way but they don't even google…

            • rumblytangara on 25/09/2023 - 10:35
              +3

              @mit: In hindsight, I don't think the question was asked in good faith. It was asked in order be a smartass, but the questioner doesn't have the faintest clue about the area in question so it all went very amusingly sideways.

            • 1st-Amendment on 26/09/2023 - 08:48

              @mit:

              what dumbass doesn't either Google their question before asking?

              I hope you googled this question before asking it lol…

              • mit on 26/09/2023 - 10:00

                @1st-Amendment: I don't need to. You already answered my question eventhough it was rhetorical.

                • 1st-Amendment on 26/09/2023 - 15:30
                  -1

                  @mit:

                  You already answered my question eventhough it was rhetorical.

                  And at no point did it ever occur to you that mine was too?

                  Upstairs for thinking, downstairs for dancing…

                  • mit on 26/09/2023 - 20:32

                    @1st-Amendment: You didn't ask a question but ok.

                    • 1st-Amendment on 27/09/2023 - 08:48
                      -1

                      @mit: You:

                      what dumbass doesn't either Google their question before asking

                      Also you:

                      You didn't ask a question but ok.

                      Here's my question that you replied to but now claim never existed:
                      https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/14334645/redir

                      As someone once said:

                      The number of people that just don't think before doing things is astounding.

                      🤣

        • MagnamoniousRex on 25/09/2023 - 09:52
          +8

          What do you plug your wifi into champ

      • browser on 25/09/2023 - 09:14
        +2

        Managed switch does come in handy, was able to setup port mirroring to capture the recovery email from a device that I otherwise would have to factory reset.

        It wasn't the original intention, at the time I thought $20 more for a managed switch why not, glad I did.

        Possibly can do the same with WiFi, but will have to deal with additional encryption wasting a lot of time. Ethernet plus Wireshark is much easier, or happens to be the method I know.

    • howcan on 25/09/2023 - 08:07

      Doesn't seem like any special price anyway, can grab cheaper at MSY/Umart ($49) if a store is nearby.

  • madturbo123 on 25/09/2023 - 07:36
    -2

    Exactly what I needed after setting up my Openwrt and tidying up my overkill(ports) 10/100 48port switch.

  • caviar on 25/09/2023 - 07:47
    +6

    Got this on the weekend for $31 through the good guys commercial page (access through Australian retirement trust)

  • check on 25/09/2023 - 08:15

    Where would you put this?

    Does NBN modem feed this then toTPG box, or does the TPG box feed this?

    • pr0o on 25/09/2023 - 08:24
      +5

      NBN to TPG router -> TPG router to this switch -> Use the switchports to connect multiple devices through ethernet cable.

  • megadeth on 25/09/2023 - 08:46

    Weren’t the TPlink 5- and 8-port switches on Amazon special cheaper a few weeks ago or are these different models?

    • Master Bates on 25/09/2023 - 08:51
      +1

      Without checking the older posts, it was probably the cheaper plastic body versions that were cheaper, rather than the metal body versions here.

      3x Camel seems to indicate this is the cheapest this model has been in a while.

  • bazingaa on 25/09/2023 - 08:52

    I think I got same one a while ago for $26 or so from CentreCom. Still similar models are available for $26

    https://www.centrecom.com.au/tp-link-mercusys-ms108g-8-port-…

  • Jaspa7 on 25/09/2023 - 09:22

    guessing this doesn't have PoE.. how common is unmanaged switch with PoE?

    • Namidairo on 25/09/2023 - 10:22
      +1

      Fairly common, just calculate your power budget beforehand as some of them don't have the best combined port power output. (The TP-Links have ones with 65W total, 40W total etc.)

      Hasivo might also be a more cost effective option if you're heading into 2.5gbe or higher too. (Albeit with pretty crappy shipping costs, warranty, power adapter needing an adapter if you don't get inbuilt one with IEC plug…)

  • JustAnExPat on 25/09/2023 - 10:16

    Good price for now, staticice shows cheapest from the 'regular crowd' is $45.
    Managed to get one for half price at Catch in March, didn't need it but at $23.50 I just couldn't resist
    (still sits wrapped up somewhere on a shelf in my office)

  • Ragna123 on 25/09/2023 - 10:42

    I recently got a NAS and I am transferring files over wifi from an external HD connected to a laptop. It is taking ages. Is this where a switch would help? Laptop and NAS plugged to the switch and the switch connected to the router?

    • WSDtightwad on 25/09/2023 - 11:05
      +1

      What kind of NAS?

      Plug External HDD into NAS.
      Log into NAS admin page from Laptop via wifi. Transfer from External HDD directly to NAS.

      Or yes, External HDD plugged into Laptop. Laptop cable connected to switch. NAS cable connected to switch. Switch connected to router/modem.

      • Ragna123 on 25/09/2023 - 11:45

        Hi, thanks for the help. It is a Synology DS423+

        • WSDtightwad on 26/09/2023 - 20:06
          +2

          So that's a 4 bay NAS I think.

          It should have a USB port for your external HDD, and a html admin page you can log into, that has a file browser allowing you drag files onto the Nas from the HDD.

          Or leave the HDD in ur laptop as above.

          But also correct as per below by Rumbly. If ur router has spare ports in the back, you can plug both ur laptop and your Nas directly into your router. You only need the switch if u need more ports for more devices.

    • rumblytangara on 25/09/2023 - 11:56
      +2

      From the way you describe it, this is a one-off thing?

      If so, you probably have spare switch ports on the back of the router. Get 2 ethernet cables, plug the laptop and the NAS direct into the back of the router, do the copy over those cables instead of wifi, and it should run much faster.

      (Home routers are effectively also switches.)

  • digitalaxon on 25/09/2023 - 11:14
    +5

    I recently upgraded to a 16 port managed + 2.5Gb switch, but for those who are thinking of getting this switch I'd recommend going for the local version so in the event of an issue you don't have to possibly have to send it back overseas and that it comes with an AU power plug (not sure if it comes with a series of power plug ends).

  • kuwahshi on 25/09/2023 - 11:37
    +1

    Thanks for sharing. I'm struggling to find the "Amazon AU for $36.43". Anyone got a link for that?

  • tommy2209 on 25/09/2023 - 21:51

    Wondering cuzz i do have 2 machines connected by ethernet cable but dont wanna get change cable to desktop everytime do work on other machine.
    Is this for mine ?

    I need only 2 ports then

    • check on 26/09/2023 - 12:36

      Yes - I am using mine to do the same.

  • kuwahshi on 03/10/2023 - 14:31

    For others thinking of purchasing in the future. It came with UK plug only.

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