BVTech 8-Port PoE Switch with 2 Gigabit Uplink Ports – 96W High-Power Budget, Compact Desktop Design, Extended Transmission up to 656ft – Durable, Easy Setup for Office & Home Networks

Crapped out in 2 months

I bought this switch because of its spec - 120 total watts, all 8 ports are POE capable, no fan (for attic installation where having a fan is probably worse) and made in Taiwan (preferred over plain China). Will be using it with at least 6 Logitech exterior cameras. Did a one week stress test to verify that all components work together. Here is my result (passed).About the switch:There are 2 components - the switch itself and a power brick. The switch is very compact and light, no moving parts. It is made in Taiwan. The power brick is similar to ones used for larger notebooks. It is made in China.The ports:There are 8. If you use one for the uplink (most applications need an uplink), then you only have 7 ports for your POE devices. Not a problem, but please plan ahead.Hook up:There is no on/off switch. Plugging the power supply in turns the switch on. I recommend doing this first, then connect the POE devices one at a time. I did tried plugging-in/unplugging the power supply with all POE devices connected. There was no problem.Power consumption:I connected 6 Logitech cameras to the switch. At full load, with all cameras booting at the same time and infra on (they turn on during boot), cameras+switch used around 50w (kill-a-watt). With the infra off, cameras+switch used around 35w. For these reasons, I was not able to verify the 120w output claim.Heat dissipation:The switch was never even warm. The cameras did get HOT, but survived the test. The power brick was more of interest because it will be in a VERY HOT attic. It was normally warm. To stress test, I wrapped it in a towel and put all cameras in a dark room to triggered the infra. In a few hours, the brick got quite hot, but not bad. Left it that way for a day. Conclusion is that it should survive my attic.In all, very satisfied. I did encountered a problem which was diagnosed to be a camera issue, not the switch's. Basically, 1 of the cameras rebooted itself whenever I connected to it using the Logitech software. I blamed the switch at first, but eventually fixed the problem by removing the SD card from the camera and reformatted it, put it back, then upgraded the firmware. Camera seemed stable now.

With the proliferation of POE IP devices, the need for a 10/100, 802.3af/at POE 8 port plus 2 Gb ports is increasing. Sure you can use individual injectors, but the plug space alone for ea injector power supply is overwhelming.I used this with the Amcrest IP cameras and had a very successful installation in two separate projects. I did have an issue with an EAP225-Outdoor TKlink AP. It would not power up on this switch. It is a 802.3af/PASSIVE device, so this switch does not seem to support PASSIVE devices and they don't claim to. The TKLInk did work on a Cisco 3560 Catalyst POE switch. Eight IP cameras at HD and 30fps can hog a 100mbps network. Having the 1gb for backbone to the main network help eliminate this issue. While one 1gb port is usually sufficient, having a second can be useful for further expansion.This is designed as a desktop switch, but it would be nice to have a wall mount capability. There are no usable mounting points on the case. It required a zip tie mesh to attach to a backboard. For the price and the watts per port, this is a good buy at a thrifty price point. I would recommend.Update 3/1/2019: Still very happy with this purchase. Strike what I said about the TKLink not working. The BV-Tech is only a 10/100 switch and is what most POE devices require (including POE IP Cameras). The TKLink works best on a 1GB switch to support the wifi speeds it can connect at. I was able it into the 1gb port and use an external POE injector that supported 1gb. Worked like a charm, especially since the other 1gb port on the TKLink switch was used for uplink to a 1gb backbone switch. In this configuration, this switch is supporting WIFI 5ghz connection speeds at about 900 mbps.

I overhauled my LAN with this switch. Instead of relying on the ATT stock WiFi router, I am now running 2 TP Link PoE access points and 4 PoE cameras on this thing. I also got rid of all the Wifi hogging wireless cameras on my network.Now my home network is very stable and very reliable. Heck I was about to buy a new Roku TV because I thought it was broken, turns out the router just couldn't reach it well enough lol.It's $20 more than some of the cheaper options out there, but it works.

I purchased several of these and they worked great but today one simply went dark. I am going to see if the company will provide support. I can't tell what the warranty i but it's almost 2 years old so I suspect I'm on my own.

I have been using this POE switch 24/7 for 5 years. I only run three cameras on it, but wanted to room for future expansion. I have had no issues with it, it just does it's job!

At this point I think I have purchased about 20 of these little switches. They are very very reliable and supply POE out to phones on my networks.I will continue to buy them for my clients and have them in my inventory at all times.

I was needing a poe switch that had poe over all 8 ports. Most of the lower cost 8 port poe switches only do poe on 4 of them (which is what I had before this switch and now I need more poe for cameras). So I found this one at a good price that still gave out poe on all 8 ports. I also like this one over others because it has the "9th" uplink port. At first I didn't think I would like that because it reminded me of the old hubs that had a dedicated uplink port and it had to be used only for that. However when I thought about this more it meant I really had a 9 port switch since all other 8 port switches I would have had to use one of them as the uplink to my router and on this one I didn't have to which meant I could use all 8 for the poe function which was a big plus in my book.

Very happy with this device. All switches should be built to this standard. 10 ports every time. Perfect for surveillance.

Bueno

Regardless of what the picture shows, the unit I received does NOT have a separate uplink, so you only have 7 usable ports after connecting the unit to the network.Also, it came with an external power supply (52V). Not plugged directly as shown in the picture.