Ubiquiti NetworksNetworks UniFi Switch 8-Port 150 Watts, White

I wanted to post some information I gathered on most of the UniFi switches to help people purchase the right unit. I have been using Ubiquiti products for quite a long time but the UniFi switches are something I'm just getting into for my home and a couple smaller work sites. I mainly deal with HP 2920 series PoE switches at work, which are excellent and support is very good.First off, the ugly truth is that if you want a PoE switch you have to deal with it either being hot or listening to some fan noise. I'm forever on the quest for the unicorn quiet PoE switch with a fan. That said here are my thoughts:8 Port 12W - a great little unit, especially in my case where I have larger PoE switches deployed. If I have a location with a single network cable that needs more outlets, plug it in and done. Works great as a stand alone too. At home my office has a single network port, so I'm using this with the POE passthough to a Hikvision cube camera. Fanless, so quiet and with only 12W not overly hot. It's almost impossible for me to not want one of these on the shelf at all times.8 Port 60W - I don't think I've tried this one, based on it being essentially a high output/more PoE ports than the 12W, I'm sure it works just a well, fanless quiet but the laws of physics says 60W should be hotter than 12W.8 Port 150W. I really want to like this switch. 150W, SFP slots and rack mount, also a nice size for the desktop. I don't like smaller desktop switches when they don't have enough weight to them and the cables pull it around. Two things keep me from loving this switch. The first being that I'm spoiled by working with the HP 2915. It's not a fair comparison as the HP is $575 but budget permitting this is my favorite fanless POE switch for now. The second is this unit gets AMAZINGLY hot. There are lots of theads that explain that the temps it runs at are OK while others disagree quoting that the hotter electronics are, the worse it is. 150W with a fanless design has to get hot but I'm sure it was designed accordingly. I have not seen any posts about failed units and I haven't had any issue with mine even with the exterior case temp at 125 degrees when my garage ambient was well over 100. There is a lot to love here but the case temperature must to be part of your buying equation.16 Port 150W. This switch hits the best balance of fan cooled but quiet enough to be in an open office. Full rack sized with 16 ports. Nothing but good stuff here. I'm rather envious of this unit at work as HP does not make a 16 port 2920 PoE. The HP 8 port is great as I mentioned, while the HP 24 port is too loud for office use.24 Port 250W I have this unit as my core switch at home, a full UniFi system, Cloud Key, USG Pro, 5 UAP-AC plus hikvision PoE cameras. This switch makes some noise, too much to be around office workers. Mine is in a tripplite enclose in the garage. Not the coolest place to start with but even when setting idle in a 70F room its no quieter. Going back to my first statement about PoE being a balance of heat verses noise, this was the right switch for my situation. It's in a hot environment so I want as much fan cooling as I can get. Being in the garage and in a metal enclosure, I can deal with the sound level. I could have gone with the 16 port as I currently don't have that many devices but as you'll quickly learn that you can never have enough ports. For roughly $100 more, I got 50% more ports and wattage to be somewhat future proof.I don't have any experience with the 48 Port models but given their port density and higher wattage I can go out on a limb and say they are fairly loud as well.Ubiquiti gets a bad rap sometimes because people are so used to spending a lot more money for the devices they sell. I was spending $800ish for Cisco wifi access when I first found UniFi, "how good can the UniFi AP be for $200?" My overall experience with their switches and really all the UniFi family has been very positive and I really appreciate them putting 'not quite enterprise' level equipment in our hands so affordably. Any of these switches should service you well, I hope this helps you pick the unit that best fits your needs.

This 8 port (technically 10 port with sfp ports) is fantastic. I set this guy up at my home and it is a perfect solution.Pros:First, the build quality is top notch. The metal housing feels like it's coated in some kind of finish that almost sparkles in the light. The build is sturdy and nothing sounds loose whem you give it a shake.Second, I love that the power supply is built inside the frame on this unit. I owned the 8 port 60 watt model for a few weeks, which I returned in favor for this model. The 60 watt model has a power brick on the included power cable, but this model doesn't have that. It makes cabling more tidy.Third, the included sfp ports are nice if you need just a couple more ports. With copper gbic sfp modules, you can add two more rj45 ports. Or, if you want to bring fiber optic right to the switch, you have that option to install a fiber optic sfp module.Fourth, having all 8 copper ports capable of pushing POE+ (802.1af AND 802.1at POE standards). This is nice to push more power to your Unifi APs and some Unifi cameras that can take advantage of the 802.1at POE+ standard.Fifth, I love the Unifi controller software. It works quickly and is simple to setup. One main attractor of why I choose Ubiquiti was the unified controller for all of my gear. I love having one place to configure and view status of my home network.Con:I can only say that 200$ for an 8 port switch is steep. However, $200 for an 8 port + 2sfp + 802.1at + ubiquiti Unifi software switch, I can justify the price.Keep up the great work Ubiquiti. I would love to see more features on the Unifi controller, like native vlan configuration per port, dhcp snooping, Switch port Mac security, and lldp support when connecting non ubiquiti devices. With some of those extra features, I would be more likely to setup ubiquiti for my business networks. (See Update 1)UPDATE 1 - 4/11/2018Ubiquiti has provided frequent software updates for the switch and the unifi controller. They have included some great features I wished they had at the beginning of my review.Switchport Profiles - This allows you to configure a profile for a certian switchport purpose. I.E. Uplinks, POE ports, AP ports, Phone ports, Camera ports, etc. You can now assign a native vlan for trunked ports, and permit only certain vlans. Other advanced options are now available like 802.1X Control, manual link negotiation (duplex and speed), storm-control( multicast, broadcast and unknown unicast flooding!), manual LLDP configuration, and rate limiting! It is very nice to see some of these more advanced features available on the controller now!!! If the software keeps advancing like this, my 200 dollar investment is looking great.

I use this switch at my home for running numerous PoE devices (Raspberry Pi, UniFi APs) and connecting up wired computers. I purchased this switch alongside two Ubiquiti Gigabit Copper SFPs to make use of the two additional ports. These switches are easy to set up, provide many powerful features which are perfect for networks small and large, and have proven to be quite reliable. Regular firmware updates are a plus, not that they're needed since the software is generally solid out of the box (I install them mostly for the security content). The only thing worth noting is that the 8 port desktop switch can get a bit warm due to the lack of fans, as do the SFPs installed within, but so far this has not caused any issue for the switch or the SFPs. Heat simply concerns me for longevity. For home installs, this would work great in a cooled closet or in a basement, where passive cooling is key and where vertical mounting can be accomplished.

I deploy a lot of network gear for work and home and completed a long overdue upgrade to ubiquiti (have had one of their access points for years and it was always rock solid). Added these swtiches and they function beautifully (replaced some older trendnet gear that also works but these give a ton of additional information to the controller). I can't believe the price - they have features that (in my experience) exceed a lot of professional enterprise gear and they are priced for consumers. Very easy to install - just plug them in and adopt them on the controller and you see your whole network topology, speed of links etc from the controller, POE status. nice.