SKS3200M-4GPY2XF

Edit: After a little bit more Googling I was able to figure out that settings are applied instantly; however, you have to go into a different category and menu to actually save the configuration for it to persist a reboot. I understand the thought process here but the Ui should guide the user towards that . After saving the config the switch seems to function as a basic switch but I haven't tried out any of the advanced features for now. Minus one star for bein unintuitive and I will try to update this review after I set up some VLANs on it. Original 1-star review: After jumping through the hoops to manually set your client IP address the access the management IP/interface and configure your settings, none of the settings persist through a reboot or power loss. Which means anytime you lose power or relocate this switch you’ll have to configure it again. This think is useless — spend your money elsewhere.

There is ZERO documentation included on how to access the management. In face it's not mentioned anywhere in the single sheet of paper instructions included. I tried a few random addresses I saw used for other similar configuration managed switches, and none worked. THANK YOU to the Japanese reviewer who provided the IP address and userid/password! It's 192.168.10.12, and the userid/password is admin/admin. Switch works fine, management is fairly limited but a nice feature considering I only paid $45 for this switch after the $15 off coupon.

Sadly it only lasted a tiny bit more than a year of almost no use before it died. It powers on but won't boot up and no ports work anymore. Before it died, it made a nice litle desktop switch for testing a few devices now and then. I probably got to use it about 5 times over the year. I am looking for a replacement from a different brand. I assume it was probably just poor quality flash memory for the management system.

I have bought two of these and while they first appear to be a great value buy, they are more of a pain to deal with. The settings do not persist a power outage. Yes I have saved my config and it will persist a reboot. It will not persist a power outage. So whenever you lose power it will revert back, then you have to deal with getting your settings backup reapplied to it. I should have returned them before it was too late.

Haven't put this switch through it's vLAN/feature(s) paces yet, but needed to get this out for anyone else having issues setting the switch to DHCP and then signing in again (that's right...I could FIND the GUI just fine!). Even as an I.T. SysAdmin this process was driving me crazy! Everything was setup correctly but I couldn't log back in after I made the change. Even when I set it to DHCP and left the default username and password alone! Well...It had to do with my browser's cookie retention. Once I flushed my cookies for the IP the GUI was able to sign in properly after the change. This may help someone else struggling. Now that I'm satisfied with my network and security settings I will be begin to actually use it. Just goes to show you that no matter how many years you have in the I.T. space, these Chinese switches can still be a bit tricky. I feel for anyone that isn't familiar with networking as I could see someone troubleshooting their subnet/firewall/etc setups for a very long time and not getting anywhere. I knew everything was setup correct on my end and accessing the GUI wasn't the issue, it was just the signing in part! Never experienced anything like that before...and I've setup a lot of equipment let me tell ya! Hopefully I'll get around to updating this review someday so I can leave a better review of the switch itself. Have fun with your homelabs everyone!

I found no real validity to negative reviews. Web access? Look on label on bottom of switch for IP, user & password. Not 10 Gbps? That is raw speed similar to unformatted versus formatted disks. Unfortunately real Ethernet has overhead including things like blank space between packets and variable packet collision down time (the biggest factor if more than 1 active port is transmitting) . Typical Ethernet throughput on moderately busy segment is 70-80% of raw speed -- depending on how much background broadcasting interrupts actual data transfer attempts. I saw no promises that uplink/downlink ports would be compatible as general use Ethernet ports. Uplink and downlink ports on hubs and switches were originally designed only for daisy-chaining the main units of a given vendor together (otherwise known as stacking). These uplink/downlink "Ethernet" ports were often optimized for speed and thus proprietary or "streamlined" (missing normal Ethernet features). Recent device uplink ports are much more interoperative and standard between vendor devices, but I would not assume 100% general use Ethernet port and IP compatibility. Compatibility for use beyond switch to switch connectivity still tends to be specific to vendor NAS or other devices. In my mind, dual uplink ports are a bit more suggestive of intended use for daisy-chain switch application...unless a NAS vendor like Synology says their switch has 10G ports intended to attach to specific models of their NAS.

The Xikestor/Seekswan SKS3200M-4GPY2XF is quite a nice 4x2.5G+2xSFP+ lightly managed network switch. Both RSTP and EEE are disabled by default, so I enabled those. Administration is bound to VLAN 1, so if you want to secure that, just use another VLAN for non-admin ports. The default IP address is 192.168.10.12/24 which you can configure or use DHCP. Jumbo packets to 16383 bytes are supported and the default. I paid the premium over competitors to have better support, and the AC adapter has a UL rating with a valid ID number. The Xikestor website is English and the Seekswan is Chinese but one can translate the pages with any web browser built-in translator (right-click in Edge or Chrome). Firmware downloads are available from the Seekswan website. I suspect this switch is targeted at the Chinese market as it isn't shown on the Xikestor website, though the switch's web GUI supports both languages. WARNING: I don't recommend using more than one 10G copper SFP+ module because of the power draw and heating with passive cooling. Using the right-side SFP+ cage nearest to the edge of the case and the ventilation slots is recommended! With a QSFPTEK QT-SFP-10G-T multi-rate 10G copper module, the exposed module temperature is 54°C, which can cause third-degree burns in a few seconds!