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I wrote about Netgear Nighthawk RAXE300 Yesterday I completely ignored this interesting little switch.
As WiFi 6 becomes more mainstream and WiFi 6E becomes more and more popular, the demand for multi-gigabit Ethernet is also increasing. Using a 160Mhz wide channel makes it easy to saturate a gigabit connection, and WiFi 6E makes it easier for our family to achieve this.
Although 2.5GbE unmanaged switches have become very affordable, managed or POE switches are not.
You can pick up 5 ports Zyxel MG-105-2.5G It costs less than £100 on Amazon, but if you have an access point with a 2.5GbE port and you want to power it through POE, the options will be more limited and expensive.
I wrote an article about How to provide 2.5GbE POE for WiFi 6 access pointYou can use a 2.5Gbps compatible POE injector to accomplish this in a semi-economical way, but it is not ideal. Some access points can use DC in, but this is a messy solution.
The two best/cheapest options are TP-Link JetStream TL-SG3210XHP-M2, the price is over £300 or excellent EnGenius ECS2512FP About 630 pounds.
Both switches have active cooling, so you need to place them outside of your work/living environment.
Therefore, when I saw that Netgear MS108EUP is not only a 2.5GbE POW switch but also no fan, my interest was aroused!
It may be the perfect solution for any home/SOHO/small business that has no space for network equipment.
However, this switch has a warning. It is not particularly cheap.
Its price is more than 400 pounds, and each port is 50 pounds. TP-Link has a 240W power budget + 2 additional 10GE SFP+, each port is 37.5 pounds (ignoring SFP+). However, Engenius is more expensive.
Netgear is only intelligent management, not cloud management like the other two. Some people may think this is positive.
POE is limited to 60W on the first 4 ports and 30W on the last 4 ports, but this should not cause problems.
