TP-Link 24-Port Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Switch | Plug and Play | Desktop/Rackmount | Fanless | Limited Lifetime (TL-SG1024D)

Exactly what I wanted, works fine, delivered next day. Reviews had warned of the same product having different hardware versions (with/without fan) so I contacted two sellers about this. Helpful response from Lee at Digital Systems same day + provided tel number. Got straight through to him and he opened the boxes of the different versions to check & explain spec. Decided which one was right for me and & he looked out for my Amazon order to make made sure I got the right one. Excellent! Not the cheapest advertised on Amazon but then I didn't know what I was going to get form the others and I never had a response from my other email to LambdaTek ComponentShop. Happy to pay £10 more on a relatively big purchase like this to know I'm getting the right think and a helpful service - Thanks Now in loft providing network/internet to whole house. Virtually no setup involved - just plug in the cables and power - takes less than a minute - brilliant

Seems to do the job just plug and play. Disappointingly it came with a non-UK plug so loses 2 stars as it's useless without an adapter or spare cable.

I have used TP-Link switches in the past and was surprised at the size of the box this one came in. This switch is smaller than previous models and can be used as a desktop switch or with the option rack ears, converted to a rack mountable switch. The my installation I did not need rack mounting so the compact size was beneficial. Even with the smaller cabinet size this switch still has a standard 110VAC power cord and internal power supply. That's great since it can be hard sometimes to find room for large wall wart power supplies. There's no software or network settings needed when using this switch. It auto navigates between 10/100/1000 Mbps speeds and front mounted LED give you visual confirmation on the connection and speed of your devices. For the Price ($75 @ time of review) it's hard to find a better value for a gigabit switch. I've installed more than a thirty TP-Link switches to date and so far they're all still running and performing as expected. I would recommend this switch for residential and business users.

Come with extender to fit in 19 inch rack

These switches fit the bill perfectly: unmanaged, no fan, lots of ports, 2 Gbps per port. Also, although there are no photos or text to suggest this on the product page, they do come with an excellent pair of rack ears powder coated to match the slate gray of the switch itself. I bought two of these to replace several 5-port Netgear switches I had scattered around the house, often daisy-chained. I've been having issues with my network, some of which have been cleared up by these switches; mainly not obtaining proper IP addresses, or machines connected to them not obtaining proper IP addresses. This TP-Link switch is incredibly fast and I've never had IP issues with them to date. After you turn them on, they only take a second or two to initialize and obtain an IP address; in other words, almost instantly. I've never seen a switch come online that quickly before. The Netgears often would take 30 seconds or more, and sometimes even then, as I mentioned, would fail to connect properly to the router if I turned them on too soon. This TP-Link switch doesn't seem to have any of those issues. You can power it on or off any time you like relative to your router; as soon as a link is available, it will connect. It works like a switch should, meaning hassle-free; you turn it on and it switches packets. Something else I noticed, which I've also noticed when upgrading other network equipment like my wifi router, is that it makes everything on the network snappier. I'm talking about LAN, of course. For WAN, obviously it isn't going to speed up your Internet connection; but you will notice less latency, resulting in faster loading web pages, and shorter times for connecting to a VPN server, or any other WAN activity that requires establishing a connection. Just as your CPU will affect web-speeds, so will the equipment you use on your internal LAN. Everything from switches to the NIC, CPU, RAM and drive on your computer, to your router to your modem will affect your 'Internet' speed. None of this, again, will improve the speed of your Internet service; but the better your equipment in each of these categories, the snappier things will connect, cache, load, route, switch, et cetera. It all adds up - or subtracts if you have poor equipment. I purchased two; one is in my garage server cabinet and feeds the house from the main router; the other is in my home office and disseminates connections to the various computers and devices in the office. My old Netgear switches were always full; now I have more ports than I will probably ever need for expansion. These offer a big improvement over the small 5-port switches given the 2 Gbps dedicated to each port. I can do Steam in-home streaming from my home office PC to the livingroom while my wife streams videos from the wifi router and neither will affect the other; as they shouldn't, since one is a WAN activity and the other is a LAN-only activity. However, in the past, the smaller switches acted as a bottle-neck in the LAN, with the result that heavy LAN use could affect WAN use and visa versa. If you have these issues, this switch will probably clear them up for you. I also opened these switches up to look inside. I'm no electrical engineer, but they appear to be quite well built: clean traces, good quality capacitors, solid components overall and well laid-out. They also didn't over-engineer the case: just a handful of screws to open it up. The case is well-ventilated and solid. The powder-coating is well done and the color is quite attractive. I know this is a minor detail, but I really like the LEDs on the front as well: they are small, rectangular and quite bright, and organized into both 10/100 and Gigabit categories so you can differentiate traffic quite easily at a glance.

Instructions lousy (they forgot to mention you need to re-boot routers) but item is excellent. Very solid metal construction. Great.

Easy installation and sturdy product