I currently have an old Cisco Catalyst 2960. I’m limited by the 100Mbps speed and it’s starting to really bothering me. I was thinking of maybe switching to a Mikrotik CRS112-8P-4S-IN but i’d like to you know what you folks are using.
Ubiquiti/UniFi USW Pro HD 24
10 gb fiber go brrrrrr
I have an older Zyxel, been thinking of upgrading at some point too. Will probably just get another Zyxel, they’ve been rock solid IMO.
One thing to keep in mind, and I don’t know how much you care about this, a lot of these managed/smart switches nowadays try to force you into cloud management. You would need to create an account on the vendor’s website just to be able to access the management features of your own network switch… I’m not into that so personally I rule out any switch that has mandatory cloud management features.
Oh I might check Zyxel then.
Yeah i clearly don’t want any cloud crap
Just double check the specs when you buy :)
Zyxel has jumped onto the cloud crap bandwagon with their newer switches. But AFAIK they do not force you to use it (most/all of them can still be run standalone) so at least they’re doing it right.
I’ve been tempted by the sodola line due to their price, but I’ve been hesitating pulling the trigger.
I have a mikrotik 10gb switch and managing it is super frustrating. The mikrotik cli just makes no sense imho
I gave it a ip and enabled snmp for metrics, then have never wanted to go near it again.
Is the syntax that horrible?
As someone is very comfortable on Cisco / Arista / juniper, yes. It’s the only platform I’d push someone to use the web ui on.
Ubiquiti isn’t perfect, but it’s what I’d recommend over mikrotik.
After having uses both a ubiquiti dream machine pro (not quite just a switch) and a Cisco catalyst 3850 both (ws-c3850-12S and the ws-c3850-24XU) whil got both insanely cheap (12S for 10€ and the 24poe+ 10gbit for 60€) because of there EOL this or next year they are insanely power hungry 100w for 12Sfp+ 10gbit ports and 300w for 24 poe+ ports both on idle mind you I don’t really use them in my homelab. I personally find iOS really clunky and the bar to actually do something is quite high compared to the prosumer ubiquiti stuff.
If I had solar or cheap power (Iceland,USA levels of cheap) id probably run the poe Switch because 10gbit on all ports and poe is really cool and nice to have its not 657€ levels of energy costs level of cool
I have a ubiquiti 2.5g mini flex, one of their 8poe port switches, and a zyxel GS1100-16 unmanaged. The 2.5G is mainly for my NAS and some servers to communicate, I don’t have an ISP that can support that speed, nor can most of my devices.
