TP-LINK TL-SG1008D 10/100/1000Mbps 8-Port Gigabit Desktop Switch, 10Gbps Switching Capacity..
Special Price TP-LINK TL-SG1008D 10/100/1000Mbps 8-Port Gigabit Desktop Switch, 10Gbps Switching Capacity By TP-Link
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111 of 119 people found the following review helpful.
By J. Bair
I wanted to hard-wire the network for my home theater setup. Most notably, an Xbox 360 (100Mbit), a PS3 (1000Mbit), an AppleTV 3rd gen (100Mbit), and the television itself (LN52B630, unsure about speed). Previous, I had the Xbox plugged in directly to my Airport Extreme over CAT5e, and used the wireless on the PS3/AppleTV. However, I wanted to hard-wire the AppleTV for airplay mirroring to speed things up a bit. And if I was going to split the one gigabit connection into more than one, I figure I might as well wire up everything, and a 5 port gigabit switch was exactly what I needed.
Looking around Amazon, this guy had really top notch reviews. Online research showed NewEgg reviewers giving this little guy glowing reviews, with a few nags here and there. There are a few neat hacks people have done to make this switch even more useful, but I won't get into those. I figured for $20, this little guy should do the trick. Plus, Amazon has a great return policy for faulty products, so why not give it a try. I've been burned by high quality names dying out on me for no good reason, so I figured I'd give this little guy a go.
So far, fantastic! I wasn't able to do a very good test to max out the line speed, but the speed did not change between no switch and the switch over the same wire. I checked all ports and they all worked at 1000BaseT just fine, and latency was consistent across all ports. Also, I confirmed that mixed modes caused no issues, as noted by my above devices. Of the 5 ports, 2 are gigabit (uplink to the Airport Extreme and the PS3), and the AppleTV/Xbox are 100Mbit - the TV is most likely 10BaseT, but it may be 100BaseT. Everything is working together flawlessly, though since it's for a home theater setup, it's not being taxed heavily.
If it dies on me or if things end up not working out, I will be sure to come back and update this review. But I figured I'd toss my two cents for other people running into my situation.
63 of 69 people found the following review helpful.
By Bubba Guppy
I needed another switch and I bought this one because it was inexpensive, was supposed to be energy-saving, and was well-reviewed across the net.
It works very well, and it runs cool - barely warm to the touch.
Compare that with my Cisco 5-port gigabit switch which is always HOT to the touch.
Heat is wasted electricity and ultimately challenges component reliability.
I would recommend this product to anyone.
26 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
By William Hefner
When it comes to unmanaged home gigabit ethernet switches, there isn't really much these days that would set one brand apart from another. Gigabit switches pretty much just sit there and do what they are supposed to do without notice, if they are built right. The specs for gigabit switching haven't changed at all over the years, so manufacturers have had to find other ways to set themselves apart. The battlefront these days seems to be who can build switches the smallest, the cheapest or use the least amount of power. TP-Link seems to have settled on the latter, with the release of it's 8 port TL-SG108 gigabit ethernet switch.
So, the question is... Did TP-LINK actually build a switch that uses less power than other models? Yes, they did. Although the tests I conducted were not under sterile, laboratory conditions, they are certainly accurate enough to show that the TP-Link switch uses significantly less power than switches sold just 2-3 years ago. Running idle (no connections or traffic) the TL-SG108 barely draws any current at all. Perhaps 1 Watt, at most, which is most likely consumed by the LEDs it displays to indicate that it is operational. This is a tad better than switches made a generation ago, but consistent with most other desktop switches made these days.
Under a full network load, the most power that I saw the switch consume was about 4 Watts. I used a consumer Kill-A-Watt brand power meter for testing purposes and set out to test some other 8 port desktop gigabit ethernet switches that I had at my office. Using the same ethernet connections on the same network (representing a similar network load) a handful of the newest switches I tested consumed roughly equal amounts of power. Specifically, I tested models including the TrendNet TEG-S8g, TrendNet TEG-S80g and Zyxel GS108B. All of these models have similar form factors and features and are from the latest generation of each company's products. All seemed to fluctuate between 2 to 4 Watts of power, depending upon the network load at that particular moment. In this sense, the TP-Link TL-SG108 doesn't really stand out above the rest, but it definitely hangs in there with the best of them. The other models I tested also boasted consuming "less power". I suspect that most current models sold these days would be similar in power consumption though.
Compared to previous generations of gigabit ethernet switches, the TP-Link TL-SG108 fared much better. In particular, I put a switch that is still active on our network to the test and the results were impressive. In particular, I tested a 3COM 8 port OfficeConnect model 1670800a gigabit ethernet switch and found that it consumed anywhere from 4-8 Watts under the same load. That's close to twice the power consumed by the TP-Link. Similarly, a Netgear GS605 5 port gigabit ethernet switch (definitely not one of their newer models) had a pretty constant load of about 7 Watts under the same conditions. With fewer ports and close to same size, I expected the Netgear to do a bit better, but the meter doesn't lie. I suspect that the Netgear switch is probably about 5 years old. I didn't have any other, older gigabit ethernet switches left to test, but I suspect that the results would have been roughly similar.
What it all boils down to seems to be that if you are using an older, gigabit ethernet switch you could save 50% (maybe more, maybe less) on your electricity costs by switching to a TP-LINK TL-SG108 or a similar model based upon recent advancements in technology. In real-world terms, we are talking about 5 Watts max. Over the course of a year, this would amount to (at most) about $1 in savings as of this writing. Obviously, if you have an older gigabit switch in place, running out and buying a new one isn't going to pay for itself anytime soon and will just consume more landfill space, if you care about that sort of thing. If you need to buy a new gigabit switch anyway though, the TP-Link TL-SG108 is definitely one of the lowest power-consuming models you will find on the market these days. It compares very favorably to similar models that sell for higher prices. It seems very solidly built and considering the fact that it contains no moving parts, one should expect it to last longer than the amount of time it will take to make gigabit switching technology obsolete.
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