Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Help on managed switch decision

Hello everyone,

I'm in the market for a managed switch to power my home-lab/home-network/home-working-network. What I need is:

  • VLAN support
  • 16-24 ports is a good amount, don't need more
  • Being able to aggregate two or three interfaces statically (no LACP) to my SG3100 netgate box, for the purpose of increasing the bandwidth upstream.
  • Being able to aggregate two interfaces to my NAS (dual GBe, Synology 918+). They will need to talk to the router (wan or other vlan) and to other 1gbe pc connected to the switch (same vlan)
  • L3 static routes would be nice, but right now I don't need them.. maybe in future
  • GUI with https .. possibly nice
  • good & reliable hardware!
  • possibly stay under 300€
  • I don't necessarily need SPF or SPF+ .. But I don't disdain
  • Cli would also be nice to have, as to experiment and learn apart from the GUI
  • I don't need POE, I don't have 10gbe interfaces

So far, these have made it into my list:

Model Price € PRO CONS Cisco SG220-26-K9-EU 177 It's CISCO no static routes? Bad GUI? Netgear GS724T-400EUS 170 static routes, https gui Bad GUI overall? Read bad stuff of Netgear? Ubiquiti ES-24-LITE 210 static routes, nice https gui not great hardware? HP 1820-24G 164 https gui, read HPE hw is good no static routes 

I've gathered the above from internet research (so take with grain of salt.. could be wrong!). I don't have experience with any of these brands..

Are there any other models you would recommend or which route would you take among the ones above?

Thanks a lot for your opinions!



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