D-Link 5-Port Gigabit Smart Managed Switch —5GbE Ports —L2—VLANs —Web Managed —Desktop—Fanless —NDAA Compliant —Lifetime Protection (DGS-1100-05V2)

Works great. Easy to setup and administer.

I have worked electronic security for several decades, from legacy technology up and through the vast realms of technological breakthrough in various avenue of electronics. Installed over 500 Axis IP cameras, access control and on and on. However, given the limits of Network technology regarding distance, I have a customer that wanted cameras where no power was to be, almost 700 feet from his home in a vast yard. We installed buried CAT5e 14 years ago, in the yard to a tree. Now with items such as Veracity Longspan, POE and network activity can easily be accomplished at 700ft+, and with that delivery, items such as this Switch, are totally powered by POE, into and distributed by this D-Link switch. The POE powers this switch via Port 5, and then Port 1 and 2 can be managed to deliver that POE budget to a Wireless Access Point locally, Wireless Arlo camera communicates to this access point, and a POE splitter, powered by Port 2, provides 5vdc to keep the Arlo cameras powered continuously 700ft away. One CAT5e, delivers 54 Volts of POE and 10/100 Network function 700ft away, (Network Max typically 100 meters/ 324 ft) with NO other electrical source. Without this switch, it would not work, or be manageable via PC remotely. I have 4 of these, as they are basically priceless. If you know what you are doing, your only limited by personal limitation. Veracity, D-Link, Trend-net AP's, are amazing. Very happy customer that can keep an eye on his house and yard from Halfway around the world... 5 star indeed.

Muy buena calidad y compacto

In the end, I got three of these set up with multiple VLANs, but setup can be tricky. When you click "Apply" on a settings page, the changes are applied, but not saved. So if a change disconnects you from the unit (say, when you change the management IP from its default to your own), then you have to be able to reconnect to the device using the new settings. Otherwise, you're locked out with no chance to reconnect. When you reboot, your settings are lost. I suppose that could be a good thing, but you just have to plan your steps and don't plan to do more than one step at a time. I just found myself spending a lot of time changing the IP settings on my laptop just to get these over the finish line.

One thing to be careful of is that the mask is set to /24 by default, and I could not talk to it until I matched my desktop machine to that, meaning I needed to take it off DCHP, set up as static, configure the D-Link switch and then put everything back. The other way to configure it is using the D-Link phone app (why no windows app?). It was useless. It can (apparently) configure the switch, but all I got was strange "received data does not match sent" errors. Anyways, I replaced a TP-Link 24 port switch that was unmanaged with this unit. A $130 managed 24 bit switch is hard to beat, and I see that 10g is not really going anywhere (who needs that?). I don't really NEED a managed switch, but why not? Now I can talk to the switch, block out ports, whatever. Just don't expect deep packet inspection and Bob's your uncle. I haven't tried the SNMP apps, but expect to be using that capability as well. It probably runs quite cool as well, I haven't tested it because the Linksys box sitting on top of it can cook eggs. Finally, it was actually slightly smaller than the TP-Link it replaced. In general I have found the 24port stuffs works for me. I used to have a tree of switches, but having everything come back to a central box makes sense to me. That way, the switch is the only limit to speed. I have a moderately busy house for internet, and I have 17 of the 24 ports filled, so I would say this is the correct size for me.

this is for DGS-1100-05PD first off switch does not ship with DHCP enabled, and all are set to the same static address of 10.90.90.90 to access you need to set your computer to manual IP address or 10.90.90.9, mask 255.255.255.0 and gateway 10.90.90.1 then in your browser goto 10.90.90.90 login to switch with password admin goto system ipv4 and set to DHCP, do not power off the switch set your computer back to DHCP find the switches IP address using ip scanner or look in your routers DHCP lease table log back into the switch at its new address, then click save config at top left of web page, click apply, you can now power cycle switch and it will stay set to dhcp the POE pass through functions are also limited and don't play well with cisco switchs or work at all with POE injectors so my advise is avoid this switch, much better options are available

Good price easy setup does it work? Who knows. Could use a second cable though.

Initial review here was for the 5-port Smart Managed switch non-POE version. Purchased additional 5 & 8 port POE managed switches; found the 5 port POE switch does not include a power adapter! While the 8 port POE managed switch does include a power adapter rated for 54 volts @ 1.67 amps. As I speculated, the (8 port managed) POE switches use ~52-58 mA power while using no ports and subsequently connecting one non-POE uplink port. Nice metal case with large mounting holes, for wall mounting. Include a ground screw too! Has a web user interface supposedly on 10.90.90.90/255.0.0.0, but since I do not have my network configured for this address, have yet to use it. Albeit, I'd probably leave the settings at default anyways, as I just need a good switch of similar quality to Linksys/Cisco equipment.