D-Link 8-Port Gigabit Smart Managed Switch | 8 GbE Ports | L2 | VLANs | Cable Diagnostics | Web Managed | Desktop| Fanless | NDAA Compliant | Lifetime Warranty (DGS-1100-08V2)

I have worked electronic security for several decades, from legacy technology up and through the vast realms of technological breakthrough in various avenue of electronics.Installed over 500 Axis IP cameras, access control and on and on. However, given the limits of Network technology regarding distance, I have a customer that wanted cameras where no power was to be, almost 700 feet from his home in a vast yard. We installed buried CAT5e 14 years ago, in the yard to a tree. Now with items such as Veracity Longspan, POE and network activity can easily be accomplished at 700ft+, and with that delivery, items such as this Switch, are totally powered by POE, into and distributed by this D-Link switch. The POE powers this switch via Port 5, and then Port 1 and 2 can be managed to deliver that POE budget to a Wireless Access Point locally, Wireless Arlo camera communicates to this access point, and a POE splitter, powered by Port 2, provides 5vdc to keep the Arlo cameras powered continuously 700ft away. One CAT5e, delivers 54 Volts of POE and 10/100 Network function 700ft away, (Network Max typically 100 meters/ 324 ft) with NO other electrical source. Without this switch, it would not work, or be manageable via PC remotely. I have 4 of these, as they are basically priceless. If you know what you are doing, your only limited by personal limitation. Veracity, D-Link, Trend-net AP's, are amazing. Very happy customer that can keep an eye on his house and yard from Halfway around the world... 5 star indeed.

One thing to be careful of is that the mask is set to /24 by default, and I could not talk to it until I matched my desktop machine to that, meaning I needed to take it off DCHP, set up as static, configure the D-Link switch and then put everything back.The other way to configure it is using the D-Link phone app (why no windows app?). It was useless. It can (apparently) configure the switch, but all I got was strange "received data does not match sent" errors.Anyways, I replaced a TP-Link 24 port switch that was unmanaged with this unit. A $130 managed 24 bit switch is hard to beat, and I see that 10g is not really going anywhere (who needs that?). I don't really NEED a managed switch, but why not? Now I can talk to the switch, block out ports, whatever. Just don't expect deep packet inspection and Bob's your uncle. I haven't tried the SNMP apps, but expect to be using that capability as well.It probably runs quite cool as well, I haven't tested it because the Linksys box sitting on top of it can cook eggs.Finally, it was actually slightly smaller than the TP-Link it replaced.In general I have found the 24port stuffs works for me. I used to have a tree of switches, but having everything come back to a central box makes sense to me. That way, the switch is the only limit to speed. I have a moderately busy house for internet, and I have 17 of the 24 ports filled, so I would say this is the correct size for me.

I mean not much to say about this switch. It works and the management interface is functional. And for this price what’s not to like

Top end,D-Link Routers and Switches handle collisions, weak and reestablished connections better than the others.Seems to self recover when the others just quit working.Plays well with other D-link devices and various end point devices, resulting in optimum throughput.

At first I was questioning going away from Netgear when looking at network switches, but after receiving this one and just plugging it in I am very happy. I This was the first time I was going to use a switch as I had recently ran Ethernet throughout my house to get the best connection on major appliances, so I was not familiar with switches but after some research I decided a managed switch was what I wanted. The price of the Netgear managed switches with 6 ports minimum were pretty high and I did not really want to get another brand as all my network system is the same. I took a chance and boy am I happy with the outcome. It was plug & play and all my devices quicker when that are all in use. Great product for that mid to high grade category I think.

this is for DGS-1100-05PDfirst off switch does not ship with DHCP enabled, and all are set to the same static address of 10.90.90.90to access you need to set your computer to manual IP address or 10.90.90.9, mask 255.255.255.0 and gateway 10.90.90.1then in your browser goto 10.90.90.90login to switch with password admingoto system ipv4 and set to DHCP, do not power off the switchset your computer back to DHCPfind the switches IP address using ip scanner or look in your routers DHCP lease tablelog back into the switch at its new address, then click save config at top left of web page, click apply, you can now power cycle switch and it will stay set to dhcpthe POE pass through functions are also limited and don't play well with cisco switchs or work at all with POE injectorsso my advise is avoid this switch, much better options are available

Opens up a world of advanced interconnectivity at a decent price. The software is not updated often, but it is not neglected and received some minor patching for the v2.00 firmware. You should look at the datasheet and compare the models. I think this model in the updated A2 revision covers quite a lot, even things like link aggregation, powering off idle ports and all lights even, or logging to servers.Mainly I got this for its VLAN support, which is necessary to practice building clusters with Hyper-V and experiment with protocols for the edge or hybrid cloud scenarios, which is allows me to do.You shouldn't move devices around to different ports, or should try cold booting if it is not behaving as expected after rearranging settings/ports.

It does what it says on the label. Just plug it in and connect a pile of Ethernet cables. Runs at full gigabit speed.