Your low power PoE Switch recommendation

[+DS_DV+]

Hello Folks,


i own a netgear 8 port manged switch because it was below a 100 bucks and is managed.

Sadly the vlan segmentation on ports dont work like expected (at work we have those huge backdoored cisco hardware).

Can someone recommend good managed poe switches which have economical power consumption?

with kind regards

[Vilhonator]

Sadly any good switch is going to cost you a bit.

I would recommend checking Cisco Catalyst 1000 which are cheapest catalyst switches out there or SG-350 series (stay away from Meraki)

[Vilhonator]

Also CiscoCBS220 8G 2SFP PoE 67W smart switch is decent price. But depending on the size of network you're going to connect it to, you might be better off with 16 port model.

What you should check (especially when using VLANs) is switching capacity on of the switch as well, 20Gb/s (which CiscoCBS220 8G 2SFP has) is enough if you're using it at home and devices connected to it never reach even close to 20Gb/s speeds, but connecting it to for example NAS with 10Gb/s NIC or having 20+ clients connected to VLANs can easilly be too much for it.

Also Cisco uses bit different terminology (for example trunk mode is one which you don't find on many other brands switches), so with other brands, you sometimes need to read manuals to setup VLANs etc.

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Cisco 2960L are at the end of their lifetime but decent gear, still in support now, and - most important with 21st century Cisco - a perpetual license and patch updates without a smartnet contract. Can frequently be bought refurbished, e.g.

https://www.tonitrus.com/de/netzwerk/cisco/switch/cisco-catalyst-2960-l-switch/?p=1&o=2&n=12&f=409

[+DS_DV+]

thank you for your input.

maybe i just look for managed 8 port switch and use a poe injector for my Access point.
i understand that its costly but 450€is more than most of my Homelab combined ... thans in no relation.

i stumbled upon the https://mikrotik.com/product/crs112_8p_4s_in but even that is 250€.

The Cisco CBS220 looks nice tho that definitively gets into the closer circle. Even tho i rather buy linksys equivalent just to not own a cisco product :'D for me Cisco is like Nestle ^^

[Vilhonator]

thank you for your input.

maybe i just look for managed 8 port switch and use a poe injector for my Access point.
i understand that its costly but 450€is more than most of my Homelab combined ... thans in no relation.

i stumbled upon the https://mikrotik.com/product/crs112_8p_4s_in but even that is 250€.

The Cisco CBS220 looks nice tho that definitively gets into the closer circle. Even tho i rather buy linksys equivalent just to not own a cisco product :'D for me Cisco is like Nestle ^^

Well there's good reason why most companies use Cisco network gear. Cisco is best that money can buy (though you need to spend quite a bit of money. Cheap models are utter garbage). I used Catalyst 2960 48 port model released in 2007 till I decided to switch to new one, though it still works like a charm with stock coolers and all, it's just *ahem* SLIGHTLY dirty ^^.