Zyxel 16-Port 2.5 Multi-Gig Switch | Cloud/Smart managed | PoE++ @180W | 8 x PoE++ (60W) | 2 x 10G SFP+ | Rack mount [XMG1915-18EP]

Great switch for the money, easy setup and friendly GUI interface. A lot of LVL2 functionality for advanced users. Great choice for SOHO and Home users.

Have had for a week now, works great, very quiet. For awareness, even though it shows GS1900-24HP on the switch itself, it truly is GS1900-24HPV2, which has both reset and restore buttons on the front vs just reset button (I originally thought I received the wrong product).

I'm a Sr Network Engineer and have had plenty of experience with managing network gear from different vendors. I used a Juniper EX3300 switch at home for years. Read up on Zyxel and decided to give it a try. Needed something to future proof with 2.5mgig and PoE++. Great speed and throughput thru these switches. The initial setup is a little odd but not hard. Every vendors UI is different and the terminology on some menus can be odd. I would definitely recommend this switch for home or small office. I would also recommend using the setup wizard then going back in and fine tune settings. Great quality for the money.

Obviously, this is a SOHO/SMB switch company. It's not designed to be a HA, dual PSU enterprise grade aggregation switch with a well known CLI. There are compromises that the purchaser needs to be aware of and do their research first, before slamming someone's work, as if they were intentionally deceived. If you want near enterprise grade, spend the $1200+ for that type of switch. You'll get what you paid for, and it'll last for many years without issues. For example, the GS1900-24HPv2 from Zyxel is 24 ports of active PoE, with a 375W PSU to back up all the ports, and so on. So many of the reviewers can't seem to do the math for TOTAL PoE / ports (130W total power for all PoE ports, using 802.11at; is 12.95W ea @ the device), total power isn't sufficient for all ports to be lit with ~13W of PoE on a 24 port switch at one time. This should be obvious to anyone in networking, or someone that can read the specs on the vendor's website. What attracted me most to this switch is that it's convective for cooling (fanless) as opposed to using fans. It sits right next to my office desk. My former switch was fan based and gave me headaches for months, so it had to go. This Zyxel 1900-24EP switch is a fine 'smart' managed' switching product for SOHO as my "aggregation" switch with plenty of capacity to power my access points, my IP phones and my cameras (8 total PoE devices). It's at a decent price that a technical worker can afford, and is reasonably configurable with a decent GUI and a frankly terrible CLI (like I said previously, not an enterprise grade device). The backplane seems fast enough that I noticed a slight bump in network responsiveness replacing an old Cisco SMB switch with this device.

I use this switch for the core of my home network and it is really great. Feature packed and I use the POE to power my access points with no issues and power to spare. This is a high quality managed switch. The management software is feature rich and does not disappoint. The speeds I get are full wire speed on all ports that I use so I am good with it. I have not extensively tested it or anything but every port I use works full speed. It is solidly built and fits well in my rack. I wish I could have two :)

Great switcher.

Very fidgety with VLANs and saving the configuration was oddly complicated at first and led to some headaches. Honestly VLANs on non enterprise switches just have some weird options in general.

Fast switch, easy to setup. One issue I had was I have an old device that only does 10Mb ethernet. This switch does not support 10mb. I had to add a small switch to support my old device. Pulled my hair out trying to debug why my old device stopped working after switching to this switch.

Smaller footprint than most switches with poe+ and sfp ports.

This product does NOT come with UK Kettle power leads, they are supplied as EU leads so have to be ordered seperately

Dieser Switch ist fast baugleich mit dem NETGEAR GS110TP, welcher bei mir schon seit Jahren leise dahin arbeitet. Die Anschlüsse sind faktisch identisch. Lediglich in den Abmessungen ist der Zyxel deutlich kleiner. Das WebGUI ist, wenn man jahrelang Netgear gewohnt ist, eine Umgewöhnung. Doch grafische Oberflächen sind sehr persönlich zu bewerten, was das Aussehen betrifft. Objektiv ist auch in Zyxels WebGUI alles drin, was drin zu sein hat und nach einiger Eingewöhnung findet man sich gut zurecht. Ich will gar nicht weiter auf technische Aspekte eines Vergleichs hinaus. Der Switch ist grundsätzlich ein gutes Netzwerkgerät. Habe ich ihn behalten? NEIN! Grund: das Netzteil ist extrem laut und störend. Ein sehr unangenehmer Pfiepton drängt sich sogar durch den Netzwerkschrank in den Raum hinein. Da dieser gerade nur einen Raum neben meinem Bett steht, ist das Gerät keine Option für mich. Ich weiß nicht, ob ich ein Montagsgerät erwischt habe, oder ob es die gesamte Serie betrifft, doch ich habe den Switch so leider zurückgeschickt und mir dann doch wieder einen teureren Netgear gekauft (den höre ich wie erwartet nicht). Fazit: das Billignetzteil passt so gar nicht zum recht wertig verarbeiteten Switch. Schade!

mein erster managed switch. Logische Inbetriebnahme, sauber verarbeitet, Preis/Leisung ist sehr gut.