Real HD 8 Port 2.5G Ethernet Switch Unmanaged Network Switch with 8 x 2.5 Gigabit | 1 x 10G SFP+ | Work with 10-100-1000Mbps Devices | 60G Bandwidth | Plug & Play | Fanless Quiet Metal Internet Switch

Works excellent. Fast, Future Proof, Plenty of Connections. Used as secondary Switch for an AT&T Fiber Router. Great Value. I highly recommend, as I expect this item to be a good backbone for the Ethernet parts of my system for a long while. No noise and barely gets Warm. Plug and Play. Shaped right and ports are in correct locations. This is a very fast QoeS switch.

Works very well. Silent and doesn’t get warm, even under load. The SFP+ port is great for both uplinks and downlinks, and supports 10 gig ethernet or fiber adapters.

The adoption of network speeds above 1GB from ISPs combined with the inclusion of 2.5GB NICs from OEMs seems to be the catalyst needed to bring down the price on 2.5GB switches. A new ISP in town is bringing 2.3GB fiber optic service out this fall, so I thought now is the time to make the jump to be ready. I have a one-level house that is really long that makes WiFi unattainable throughout the whole house without employing several access points or a large mesh to cover the distance. The challenge is extended by the demarcation point for service being located at the extreme end of the house. The really nice feature of this switch is that 2.5GB speed is possible with CAT 5e or higher cabling. That means you can simply drop this switch in place of your existing 1GB switch and have the capability of 2.5GB. I can upgrade my wired network to 2.5GB for a fraction of what it would cost me to install a mesh network that would cover the entire house and have higher throughput as well. Another very nice feature of this switch in addition to the robust 60Gbps switching capacity is the inclusion of the 10GB SFP+ port. This is an attractive feature for layouts like mine that involve long cable runs between rooms with multiple devices. This makes it easy to run a high bandwidth link between locations with the added benefit of being able to run fiber optic to avoid interference. I'm looking forward adding another of these switches to the network to achieve 2.5GB end-to-end throughout the house. 3 of my PCs already had Killer 2.5 NICs, so replacing the switch is all I needed to get up and running. A few more NICs and a couple more switches and I'll be all set.

review of - Real HD 8 Port 2.5G Ethernet Internet Switch Unmanaged 8 x 2.5 Gigabit Ports | 1 x 10G SFP+ | Works with 10-100-1000Mbps Devices | 60G Bandwidth | Plug & Play | Fanless Quiet Metal Switch - headline: excellent - stays reasonably cool - provides full bandwidth throughput - may purchase more - installation: easy, just plug in ethernet cables from multiple computers - temperature: the switch seems to stay reasonable cool. The previous 2.5G switch I purchased heated up and throttled. - conclusion: This switch is good enough and economical enough that I may purchase several of them and cascade them.

These have proven to be reliable, though in retrospect it is unfortunate to only have one SFP port.