Buying the proper switch for my home network - eviltoast

My wife and I are building a home and we ran ethernet to every room and a few camera locations outside. In total, there are 16 cat6 cables in our network hub and an additional cable coming from the Verizon ONT. The 3 cameras will be PoE as well. I found this switch on amazon that seems like it will do everything I need but want to confirm prior to purchasing. Is this a good buy or are there other brands I should be looking into?

  • af_cheddarhead@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I’d recommend a 24 non-POE switch with POE injectors for those few devices that you are going to run using POE. That way when the POE on a cheap switch dies, and it will, you don’t have to replace the entire switch. Or buy a cheap 5-port POE switch for the cameras and daisy chain it.

  • mlcarson@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I’d recommend using two switches – one for managed POE and the other as an unmanaged non-POE switch.

    Trendnet TPE-P521ES - $64.99

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H28VLFZ

    Trendnet TEG-S17D - $69.99

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WGYKFSQ

    The switch that you linked was unmanaged and you might want management on those camera ports.

    If you want a single switch to do it, I’d suggest the FS.Com S3250-16TF-U 16-port managed PoE+ switch @ $209. If you need 24 ports then that S3250-24TF-U at $299.

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    1 year ago

    I recommend a managed switch to place devices into VLANs (IoT, cameras, PCs, etc).

    I use the TP-Link Omada infrastructure at home.