so the first question you might ask me about this unboxing is lonus why are you
unboxing a network switch could there possibly be anything more boring to do
an unboxing video of and the answer that I might give you is a yes there is
something that could possibly be more boring to do an unboxing about and I'm
actually going to do one about this hard drive okay so so yes there could be
something more more boring and the other question of why am I doing an un boxing
of a network switch actually I don't know if I ever posed that question but
uh why am I doing this is because this is a green network switch so green Net
Technology reduces power consumption by up to 70% how does it do that well one
of the ways it does that is it uses energy efficient Parts okay so this is a
trend net te s8g it's an eight Port
switch one of the other ways it does it is even if you have only two ports
plugged into an older switch it's actually going to be powering all of the
ports this guy as part of their green initiative does not even send power to
the ports that are not being used or sends very very very little so you can
reduce power consumption that way by not actually powering the ports that aren't
being used you can build a high performance energy efficient gigabit
Network in minutes probably less than minutes probably about a minute if all
the computers are close together and you can like unplug your old switch and then
plug in all the other ones quickly uh it has a sturdy metal construction with
plug-and-play installation and it is powered by an energy star qualified
adapter for a better environment very nice okay so aha delivers less power to
unused ports they're going to explain it all for me delivers less power when
devices are off hey so if that computer's off it delivers less power
and delivers less power with shorter cable length look at that so if you have
a shorter cable length it will just deliver less power and if you have a
longer one hey it can deliver more power too whereas a regular switch will give
full power to every cable length that
you have attached to it so that is what Green net is all about let's take this
guy out and have a quick look at it I mean Trend net has a pretty good
reputation for switches so you can rest pretty much assur the performance is
going to be good and there's not much to worry about as far as that goes comes
with four little rubber feet that you can install on the switch should you so
desire here is your energy star qualified AC todc
adapter okay it is made by leader
Electronics Inc and it is capable of providing 1 amp at 7.5 Vols so there you
go here's a quick installation guide that probably shows you something along
the lines of how to plug a power plug in and how to plug an Ethernet cable in so
I don't think they're too interested in that and then we'll have a look at the
switch itself up so it's quite heavy because it does have a a metal casing I
really like the look of trend Net's new products I don't know if you remember their goofy old uh blue plastic ones but
these look much better you got a nice little green stripe so that indicates
Ates a green product from trenet regardless of what kind of casing it's
using if it's got that green then you know it is a green networking product
well here is the gigabit switch model number here is the power indicator here
is the link indicator for all of the ports on the back as well as an
indicator light to show you just what speed they are connected at so if they
use the standard scheme it's probably oh
I'm just guessing here but it's probably green for fasty EET and orange for gabit
Ethernet and I really hope that's right here's the overall specs by the way
guys okay I hope that was interesting all right then we have some a wall
mounting thing down here at the bottom then we have some ventilation holes on
the side some ventilation holes on the other side and the business end of
things so we have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 gbit Ethernet
ports 1 DC power in and that pretty much
covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
te s8g Green net switch from trenet
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