TP-Link 16 Port Gigabit Switch Easy Smart Managed Plug & Play Desktop/Rackmount Sturdy Metal w/ Shielded Ports Support QoS, Vlan, IGMP & Link Aggregation (TL-SG1016DE),Black

Worked as expected. No issues but I am not saturating it with traffic

Great product.

Worked perfectly for my home application. I used the 16-port TL-SG1016DE Easy Smart for my rack and while the switch is a bit heavy in the rear for the rackmount extensions to handle, it still works decently if you push the rear up to bend the brackets and make it level. I suppose it's due to the fact that the L-shaped rackmount brackets are long and not very thick, so they warp a bit under the weight of the switch pulling down in the rear. Also, unless you have a 90 degree power adapter, you'll need approximately 8 inches of room, from front to rear of your rack, to allow for the power cable (this was installed in a small patch panel rack for my application).As far as how the switch works, I have had no issues so far. I'm using 12 of the 16 ports at any given time and the thing barely emits any heat. The software was pretty simple to install, just had to assign it an IP address that wasn't in range with the switches default, login and all settings were simple to configure. The default subnet is 192.168.*.* while my router uses the 10.8.*.* range, so other than giving it a compatible IP address, it would work strait out of the box with no configuration needed.To sum things up, I would definitely buy again and most likely will buy another as my network grows -- simple setup, quality appearance, high quality ports and leds, very low heat generation and most importantly: half the price of competitors!

TL;DR: Not recommended for businesses but adequate for home users.Pros: This is a managed switch with a fairly low price tag. All the ports can have separate VLAN tags with 802.1Q configuration. Testing the speed with iperf3 I was able to get 934Mbits/sec full duplex for over 5 min (this was through my entire internal network chain)Cons: The switch management IP is always available to all the clients connected to the switch regardless if VLAN tag. This is a problem because any device on this device can attempt to brute force the username/password and there is no log to check for failed login attempts. A mitigation to this is placing the switches ip onto a separate subnet than the clients on the switch (which can be done with VLANs). This would force, under DHCP configuration, the clients to route through the default gateway and allow the firewall rules to apply. Unfortunately a client could configure their ip/subnet manually and thwart this mitigation and there is no way to detect this if it does happen (this is why I would not recommend this for a business). If a user does change there ip settings to connect to the switch this device also has another problematic limitation: the username and password can only be 16 characters long. The password can have special characters so the number of combinations is still good with a strong 16 character username/password but there is nothing to prevent a device on the network from guessing all day with impunity.Conclusion: This is a great cheap managed switch for home users and with the subnet mitigation is relatively secure against most broad malware intrusion, however, this device should not be used in any business capacity where the users or the devices can not be trusted. I would also not recommend this switch for IoT isolation as these devices do not have an os preventing an ip/subnet configuration change.

Hardware:Arris BGW210-700 with IP Passthrough using DHCP-fixed config, WiFi and firewall disabled (basically all the unneeded stuff were disabled), and connected to an Ubiquiti ERPOE-5 router which in turn is connected to this switchA Dell Latitude e6320 with a built-in Intel 82579LM network card running Ubuntu 20.10 was used for the tests and connected to the TP-Link switchAll firmware are up to dateConfig:The switch was configured manually as there was no config wizard to useTests:DSLReports speed tests gave an A+ on Bufferbloat if the port connected to the router had its QOS bandwidth control set to 8192Mbps for download and upload. Enabled the switch port's QOS bandwidth control because could not use the router's SMQ due to that feature not being able to be hardware offloaded so its CPU spikes up to 100% and started dropping connections (when the switch's QOS was enabled. the download and upload speeds were 100-500Mbps, but disabled the download speed was 300-500Mbps and upload speed was around 930Mbps)AT&T speedtest which used Ookla's gave 15-18ms ping, 0-2ms jitter, download 800-900Mbps, and upload 800-920Mbps BUT if the switch's QOS bandwidth control was enabled, download and upload speeds were 300-500Mbps

Does everything I need it to do. Even does LAG (static only, no LACP).My one and only complaint is that I can't set the timeout time for the admin console screen. But that is really minor.

I have a heavily networked house. It's not your typical suburban home. Almost ever room has wired gigabit network, wireless mesh network, smart devices, cameras, and whole house music system. You name it we have it. We have numerous network switches throughout, but occasionally we need to replace one, or perform an upgrade.Enter TP-Link. I have come to rely on TP-Link switches and other products and they have become the new 'goto' standard. This particular switch is no exception. Recently, I needed to replace the switch in my AV rack. I chose the 16-port TP-Link managed switch. It was perfect for the location and the fact that it was managed made my son happy - as he is my personal IT guy. :) This particular switch has been working flawlessly (the way you want it to!), and I've been happy with it. It's made of light metal, and has enough ports this particular location.TP-Link is an excellent value. Good price/performance compromise and doesn't break the bank. You simply can't go wrong with TP-Link.