This is a decent unmanaged switch. My only gripe is that it MUST be paired with a managed switch with VLANs in order to be practical. Otherwise, any PoE devices like IP cameras will have access to the Internet and all other devices on your network.

We needed an unmanaged PoE switch and this fit the bill at a reasonable price.

Oh the prosafe switches... how we keep running into each other even though you're terrible. At first you seemed nice because you offered VLAN support, but as time went by.... I've become aware of your problems. Your top top top most features, VLANs, are janky at times and leaves you to be very insecure.... but when you get rebooted between settings applies, you work just fine; expect for listening on all VLANs for your management interface...I recently found you again when I was standing at best buy... I needed a PoE switch and didn't want to wait months for Unifi gear.... So I tried you... Having been recently bloodied by a battle on my desk, I was aware of your new http UI tricks vs the old Air tool... I was ready, but were you?After a few days, I again I find my self in the same spot I've been many times with you... waiting for you to reboot after changing a vlan tag... no matter what, you have to be rebooted before this works. Would unplugging/plugging in the target ethernet also work? sure does, but I'm all the way across the room... I want my setting to apply when they're applied. If you need time to apply the settings I can wait, but you trick me into thinking you're working. I review the 802.1q advance config settings and see that everything is tagged/untagged correct (and I always google tagged/untagged vlan definitions to make sure I didn't get them backwards (I didn't)) and everything appears good.......but then I remember. I have that voice in the back of my head remind me what the problem is... it's always clear as day and I can never remember it...rebootOh hey, it's working.Btw, the 8 port poe switch is powering on of my unifi ac pros without issue; I was shocked too. No over power limit. (Wish I could get stats on the PoE, but at least the ap works..)

Installed by someone with average technical skills. It was plug and play since it is not managed switched.

Coming from a mostly Cisco-inspired world, it was a little confusing to set up the tagged VLANs on this. There is a separate setting for PVID and Default VLAN (unlike Cisco where a Native VLAN defines tagging for both ingress and egress). It took about 10 minutes of trial and error along with a bit of googling, but everything is playing nice now.It is very well constructed and feels solid; the power supply is a huge brick. I have yet to test PoE but I'm confident it will provide the rated output.

Used as a router to expand voip network. Works as expected.

The specs were not clear as to how big it was defining length width and height!

A very good PoE switch at a very good price

I really love this little switch. I have a server, mac mini, and some lab equipment I wanted a gig connection for. This thing was a breeze to setup and had POE, so I could run some phones.The switch itself takes a management address from your existing home network, and doesn't enable VLANs by default. The setup is very simple, all gui based, and has enough featuresPros: Really easy to reset, if you ever lock yourself out of it. PROSAFE utility is really neat, but requires you to plug directly into it. VLAN Management is great. QOS settings are kind of pointless, but you can rate limit specific ports which is really nice (eg: throttling an access point for the kids or guest VLAN)Cons: Not really something you can leave out, if you were going to use this for a business. Anyone with enough working knowledge of NETGEAR products could probably hack this in minutes if it was unsecured. It does not appear to support MAC address sticky, even if you lock down the other ports.