TRENDnet 12-Port 10G Web Smart Switch, TEG-7124WS, 8 x 10G RJ-45 Ports, 4 x SFP+ Slots, Ethernet Splitter, NDAA & TAA Compliant, Rack Mountable Housing, Lifetime Protection, Black

Great little switch. I just rewired my house with this as the backbone. I was expecting it would give me gig speeds, considering parts of my home were wired with Cat5e, and other parts are Cat6. But I was surprised to find that all of the ports are at 10G. Unfortunately, I only have one endpoint with a 10G NIC to do a proper throughput test. Here are some pros/cons I observed. Pro: Plenty of ports. Good balance between copper and SFP+ slots, which can be used with copper or fiber. Had no trouble negotiating with other switches and endpoints I have, which support 1, 2.5, and 10G. Runs cooler than other switches I have tried from a Chinese manufacturer. US manufacturer, so warranty claims and support may not be an issue (I hope). Easy and fast configuration, was up and running in minutes. Just the right balance of features (L2 and L3). CLI (console and SSH) and web-managed, so the options are great. Con: Fan noise, but it's to be expected. Mine is in the garage, so it's not bothersome. But its hard to see how this would work as a desk switch. But the fan speeds do change with ambient temperature, which is nice. For an expensive switch, it doesn't come with dust caps. Considering these get deployed in places where bugs can crawl in and set up a warm nest, it should have been shipped with dust caps. I bought some separately to cover the SFP+ ports. The spec sheet only mentions 1,2.5, and 10G speeds. But the graphics and interface include 5G, so I don't know if it can do 5G speeds as well. Will do some testing and update. Wish it had a link utilization graph on the interface. I know it has robust RMON and SNMP support, but it's faster for a quick glance. Most switches I have interacted with come with a ground on the switch body; this didn't. I guess it's not needed or expected that the rack be grounded. I was split between this and Zyxel, but the deal offering made this irresistible. It offered the same features with more ports and was slightly cheaper. Power consumption is hovering around 33W in my case, with low to no load, but sitting in the garage, where the fan seems to run continuously.

I bought this on Prime Day as part of my effort to bring my home network into the modern age; it was an offer I could not refuse. I'm not running anything yet which requires 10G, but it is an investment toward being future-resistant. So far, no issues aside from a router upstream not identifying it (although it knows its existence). I'll figure it out eventually; it is no fault of the switch and at my age, I'm in no real hurry anyway. I bought a 12U rack to install it & a few other goodies, and the rack currently sits on a desk adjacent to my work area. I do not find the fan noise particularly objectionable, even though it runs continuously; your mileage may vary. Overall, this seems like a quality smart switch. I'm glad I made the purchase.

My setup is straightforward, and I've tested the switch with two Linux-based computers equipped with Intel x540 pcie(note that this NIC are not supported on Windows 11) and a PFSense router with VLAN. The results have been impressive, with iperf tests yielding speeds of around 9.3Gbps. Additionally, I've noticed a significant reduction in ping times, from 2-3ms to 0.15ms, although this may not be noticeable for most users. TRENDnet regularly releases firmware updates, which gives me peace of mind - a key factor in my purchasing decision, as some cheaper alternatives don't offer this level of support. One thing to note is that this switch is slightly on the noisier side. It does produce a gentle hum that's audible in quiet environments. If you're planning to use it in a silent workspace or home office, you may want to take this into consideration.

I had a NAS die on me, and things started spinning out of control. The old NAS only had two 100 megabit ports. So I got a Synology DS923+ and saw that I was saturating the gigabit connection. That led to getting the 10 gigabit card, and I found that I was saturating the connection on my 2.5 gigabit switch. And then Prime Day happened, and I bought a DS1122+ with another 10 gigabit card. And if you're going to have two NAS devices capable of 10 gigabits -- you need a 10 gigabit switch, right? Realizing I was going way, way past overkill for home use, I decided if I was going 10 gigabit, I was going as inexpensive as practical. Since I'm adding to an existing network with different vendors and VLANs, having something semi-managed was essential, and fully-managed would be even nicer. Now -- there is a much less expensive managed 10 gig switch that's all SFP+ which I had considered, but I just didn't feel good about the no-name company that made it. Not that TRENDNet is top-tier, but they've been around long enough that I can count on them releasing firmware updates from time to time, and reasonably trust that there's nothing nefarious baked into the hardware. When this initially arrived, I was a little puzzled that it wasn't pulling a DHCP address. I had to go into the documentation to discover that this comes from the factory set to 192.168.10.200 and apparently, you're not changing it without a console connection or a device on that network. That's about 75% of the reason I docked a star. I guess you can make some argument for airgap security on a switch being a good thing, but I just don't see a use case for this grade of switch where that's necessary enough to outweigh the convenience of fast setup. Anyway. The GUI isn't awful All the functions you'd reasonably expect to need are there and easy -- maybe too easy -- to use. I kind of with things like ACLs could be set on a single page per port, and that doing things like setting up LACP could be done as "these three ports" instead of having to turn it on port-by-port, but I'm picking nits here. What is a bit annoying is that some of the pages show ports that the switch doesn't have, while other pages have you selecting ports off of a sketch of the switch. Consistency is not a priority to their UX team. That said, the GUI is extremely fast as switches go, and not every config change requires a reboot. The only other odd thing that stood out to me was when I used an SFP+ module to connect to my Cisco gigabit switch, the Cisco switch looked like the interface was flapping, and the TRENDNet switch didn't show a module installed at all. Forcing the port to gigabit resolved the problem, but I was a little surprised that it didn't auto set to max capability. (Though in fairness, the module is pretty cheap and may not report it.) All things being equal, I'd buy this again. The config annoyances are minor, and the speed is divine.

Great switch for a high speed smart home backbone.

Bought this switch from Amazon because it was the cheapest way to add 10GbE ports to my SoHo network to support a SAN and virtualization servers. My core switches are (2) Cisco CBS-350 class devices stacked using (2) 10Gtek SFP+ twinax cables. I was able to successfully create a LACP LAG (Cisco's term, TRENDnet calls them "trunks") using one port on each of the Cisco switches to (2) SFP+ ports on the TRENDnet to create a 20Gb uplink. 802.1q VLAN tagging works great as well, even on the LAG. The Amazon product listing describes the switch as L2+, which I guess is "accurate", even though I have never heard of that term before because this device is definitely not an L3 switch. You can assign a static (or dynamic) IP address to the switch using any VLAN, but as far as I can tell that's it... only (1) IP, so although the GUI has a screen to define static routes, you will need a router or a real L3 switch to route among the VLANs. While the GUI is not bad, it would be helpful to have some type of context sensitive help built in. I didn't find the documentation all that useful... for the most part you should be able to figure out how to use the GUI if you know what you are doing, but it wasn't obvious to me what the "VLAN Trunk Global Settings" screen did, and of course this screen is never mentioned in the documentation. All in all it seems like this switch will get the job done for me at a fraction of the cost of a Cisco 10GbE Small Business Switch, but I would hesitate to deploy one for a client because of the "rough edges".

One of the few that actually works and doesn’t take a ton of setup. Love this switch.

Works at full 10GBE speed, has extensive management capabilities