STEAMEMO 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch | Smart Managed with VLAN/QoS | Plug & Play Desktop/Wall-Mount Network Hub w/ PoE in Design | Sturdy Metal & Energy-Efficient(Includes Power Adapter)

This was a great find. I was skeptical because it was cheap but it's definitely not cheaply made. It has a good weight to it. Comes with the a/C plug. It has a place where you can hang it. Works great. No loss of speed. It also has lightning protection. It's a Great buy!!! Very happy! It works way better than the brand name I had for way less cost. This was worth way more! Would definitely recommend and definitely buy again!

I will update should I need to. The switches came fast, very quick shipping. They arrive in simple packages in perfect shape, which was nice. They include the power supply. Very easy to setup, they arrive with DHCP enabled so a quick advanced ip scan and they were easy to find. Once configured I noticed firmware was different and reached out to their support. They were fantastic, worked with me to identify what was needed and sent the firmware and instruction to apply in sequence. I tested port shutdowns, very simple. Although they aren't overly advanced they are perfect for a simple managed Switch. You have the option of cloud or local manage on 16 port and 8 port versions and the value is amazing.

It works very good

I bought this and after a bit of struggle have successfully set it up. Note that purely on price there is no way you can get anything comparable. But the instructions are a bit unclear. The app works but takes a bit of time for the device to be available on the cloud. Initially it kept saying device offline. Best way is to download their windows app (not mentioned anywhere). Find the IP of the switch by going to the router and then logging on to it via the browser. Then the device worked on the app. So if f these steps are unfamiliar I would suggest don’t buy the switch for managed capabilities. Unmanaged I suppose it would still be fine. But I don’t know. Did not test.

Plug and play. Just works. Extends my wired network with this and added more ports.

Take a load off your wi-fi router and connect your dedicated pc via ethernet

This was a huge waste of time.You have to contact the company (as another reviewer pointed out) via email to get updated firmware so you can actually have local control over the switch (as opposed to cloud-only via a phone app). I knew this going in and firewalled off the switch itself from the outside before even putting it on my network for good measure.What you won't find out until setting it up is it has no options that any other 802.1Q capable switch has for setting up tagged VLANs. Tagging is *the* core feature of 802.1Q.It also has no options for assigning 802.1Q PVIDs to ports, something all of my other switches have (and it's fairly important for preventing your non-802.1Q devices from falling back to the wrong VLAN).I asked the company how to set up the switch with a specific (fairly common) example VLAN config that I'm already using on multiple other switches and my router and their terse response was: "Our switch only supports TRUNK and ACCESS."I asked if there was possibly a language translation problem as "access" doesn't make sense in this context (exact question), and received no response.I returned it to Amazon. There are many more out there that are far better with much better support (I have several).Shop around and look at screenshots of the menus.

I have several of the 5 and 8 port versions of these switches. Also have GOALAKE branded ones that are identical except for the faceplate.Some came with firmware version 6.0.240427. This version has cloud management always on and will constantly phone home.Ones with newer firmware version 6.0.240816 have a toggle on the login page that will disable cloud management. It stops the constant 5 second requests to the cloud server.If you send an email to afterservice at sscee.net (printed on the label on the bottom of the switch) they will send you firmware version 6.0.240817. Filename GS108-240817(Patch6).bin for the 8 port switch.They recommend a factory reset after updating the firmware. System Management\Manage Configuration\ResetAll the 5 port switches I have already had 6.0.240817. The GOALAKE 8 port came with 6.0.240427. The STEAMEMO 8 port came with 6.0.240816. I have update all my 8 port switches to 6.0.240817.EDIT:Also, the RESET on the login page is a true reset. It will remove the existing password if you forgot it. You need the ID from the label on the bottom. It is the really long alphanumeric number. It says digits, but it is alphanumeric. The reset from within the configuration menu will not reset the password.Note:When upgrading firmware. The file selection defaults to displaying only files with no extension. Change it to show All Files to select the .bin firmware file.Note 2:With 802.1Q VLAN you must have at least 1 trunk port. It will not let you create a VLAN without one.Trunk port is also a management port. If you loose connection to the web interface plug into the trunk port.Trunk port is for all VLANs, you can't select specific VLAN per trunk.