I have the very economic and reliable 5-port version for more than 18 months in operation (wall-mounted), needed more ports and have therefore bought the 8-port version. After that, I have read many strange things about it and now even made some tests.
Caveat: I have not tested the device with a magnifying glass, externally it resembles the 5-port version pretty much. It can be mounted on the wall, it looks to the metal housing of reasonable and is relatively small (just so wide that 8 RJ45 connectors side by side can fit ...).
1. Note: 100Mbit and 1Gbit not be used simultaneously / Switch clocked down
I have a film with max cathedrals 6mbit to the TV (100Mbit port) streamed, and tested simultaneously between 2 Gigabit ports with JPerf throughput. The ranged between 0.88 and 0.93 at 10 Gbit streams. Since nothing has runtergetacktet. When Runtertackten I should have seen a drop in performance by a factor of 10.
2. Note: aborts the video on-demand look:
I had no crashes with max cathedrals with my Samsung TV nor Amazon Prime with my Sony BluRay Players
3. Power consumption:
The power consumption never was with me at all performance tests over 2.5W. However, I never had all the ports with the switched Gigabit ports simultaneously in operation.
4. Power Supply broken, switch locks up
My power supply is still (I have the 5-port switches continue to be used, has the same power as that of the 8-port switches. Suspended the switch has been also never, but I have even hung him, namely on the wall ,
My conclusion is therefore:
For me doing the 8-port switch with a very good performance - just as we did the 5-port switch, even with gigabit connections in mixed mode. I would buy it again.
Should I find something negative on the fly, I'm going to do an update.
