TP-Link TL-SG1005D
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Price: £12.99
Brand: TP-Link
Description: 5 Port Gigabit Desktop Switch. TP-Link TL-SG1005D - shop the best deal online on appliances4.me
Category: Computer Components
Merchant: Hughes Direct
Product ID: TPL-TLSG1005D
Delivery time: 1
Delivery cost: 3.99
MPN: TL-SG1005D
EAN: 6935364091804
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Author: Mark turbotek
Rating: 5
Review: Does everything it says it would and plug and play makes it the easiest installation ever and up and running in less than 3 minutes fantastic product would highly recommend
Author: Alec
Rating: 3
Review: There are A LOT of 5 star reviews for something which has no scope to excel in. It is a network switch (a standardised term) for standardised (that TBASE we see around) 10/100 links with the ability to figure out the type of cable (apparently this used to be an issue, since the year 2000 it's never been an issue anywhere) It does this as well as any other switch. -------Specific switch review---------- The power connector is a little tough, I was worried I may break it by pushing harder and it JUST fits into the inset on the side, which is why I was reluctant. The activity LEDs are somewhat dim/small and flicker really fast. Home users will tuck this away somewhere and in a dark room may find the slight light (in a dark room dim sources somehow do this I find!) slightly annoying. They're really close to the connections so tape would be hard to apply. This is a bit unfair though, activity lights have legit uses (letting you know stuff is working, is connected and such, you'll have a hard time finding a switch without!), unfortunately this isn't standardised, so how they show speed and activity, or even the colour varies hugely. The fast flickering I found really strange though, seriously. [Typically there's an "activity blink" triggered by anything happening followed by a hold off where it stays lit regardless of activity for a short time, until that elapses it will not trigger again] It also has no feet (little rubber pads or something), but this'll be tucked away somewhere probably held up by the cables connected to it, so it doesn't need them. The flat surface (it has no raised rim to hold the bottom face off a surface) will scratch easily, again probably doesn't matter. The indication lights I don't believe indicate speed but I don't have any reason to test a 10megabit connection in it (and I can't be bothered to force a device to present as one and see what happens, why would you want to? Answers in a comment please!) This has clearly been designed to "look good" - even the matt plastic shroud it came in, but also pragmatically, like lacking feet, it's so light any cable will hold it off a surface anyway and doesn't need them. This is sensible really. It does its job and should be enough for most people. As this is PURELY a switch I see no need to mention extra things some switches have (from gimicky crap to worthy of being called "managed", even if where they will end up has no need of the features) that this does not. It doesn't need them. -------WHY MIGHT I WANT CABLED CONNECTIONS?----------------- For those of you (in familiar if not technically correct terms) looking to share your internet connection via cables from your router will almost certainly be fine with this, most home routers already have a block of 4 "LAN" or network connectors on the back (another may be labelled WAN and another DSL, one of these connects to the internet provider) If you have exhausted those connections you can connect this in one of those LAN ports, then connect 7 devices to this (6 if you had maxed out the router's LAN connections, having to unplug something to then plug this in) and you can close your eyes. Why might you want to? Cabled connections never go down (if they do, the reason is almost never attributable to the cable, like if someone cuts it, you blame them not the cable!) and are EXTREMELY reliable. The connectors almost never come loose, and connectivity never drops for a few seconds for seemingly no reason. I've seen some laptop designs that have the port with clip at the bottom, this sometimes gets pressed accidentally if they're very thin - again not the cable's fault) Wireless networks have none of these properties, we accept their flaws because IT'S WIRELESS! Wireless devices must be exceptionally polite in the face of loads of other near by networks, devices trying to transmit at the same time in earshot of each other, all kinds of stuff, this backing off is the source of many of our problems and why, still in 2020, we must sometimes restart routers. This will be fine. The maximum theoretical throughput you'll see is 12.5 megabytes a second (~12.5mib/sec, there's a tiny difference) in practice you'll see 12 readily. Internet connections are usually not this fast and wont saturate it. The switch is able to deal with up to 8 things sending the full rate in both directions between each other just fine, note if you connect this to your router (or another switch) the connections between them will be limited to 12megabytes/sec in each direction as the cable linking the two is the bottleneck, you cannot connect a second cable. If you planned to use this to allow file sharing between computers, or allow you to stream from other computers it'll be reliable and largely okay, but keep in mind this limit, circa 12 megabytes per second down any one cable. ----------------going further--------------------- Any cables you buy (I've never seen one without in my entire life) will have the full 8 pins needed for a 10x faster connection, so called "gigabit ethernet" (because it's 1000mbits/sec, = 1gibit/sec) this is 125megabytes/sec in each direction per port max. This would be better if you plan to copy large files between devices, you'll already have cables for this as I said, and any device which you can connect to your network with a "LAN port" will support gigabit or not need to (eg xbox 360s have no need for such data rates, and are "only" 100megabits / sec ~ 12.5megabytes/sec, BUT THE CABLES AND (GIGABIT) SWITCH WILL STILL WORK FINE WITH IT) These are only slightly more expensive. I wouldn't bother with a "managed" switch without good reason, and those who could benefit know already. As I said at the top of this review, the terms are standardised, LITERALLY ANY "GIGABIT SWITCH" will do. Both this and a gigabit switch support cables of up to 100 meters long and any cable you buy will be able to do this, since gigabit is old (before 2000) you wont see anything else, and nor have I.
