today's unboxing is an eight Port gigabit switch from linkis and since
pretty much you know everyone knows you know
what links this is and what their value at is and since you know everyone pretty
much uh knows that there's not a whole lot of variation when it comes from
switch to switch and other than basic Al power consumption and reliability I'm
just going to talk about more than anything else what you really need a
switch for so first of all let's see what lyus has to say for themselves
plugin play I certainly hope so 8 gbit
ports okay up to 10 times faster yes than 1000 and qos enabled okay that's
kind of neat and power savings so yes this is more of a like a green smart
power switch so smart power for short cable runs uh which basically turns down
the transmission power when it detects a short cable and auto power down disables
unused Port so that does help you consume less energy with your switch
than you otherwise would Port status switch gives you control over LED lights
neat okay Auto sensing ports work with 1 100 networks they better and you get
award-winning 24/7 support for the first 90 days so if you plug in your switch
and you're having trouble with it at least there's someone to call other than
me you can call Cisco and they can help you you'd be surprised how many people
like message me me and ask me like stuff like you know my switch isn't working
what do I do and I'm like I don't know man I don't know your network I don't
know like what you're trying to do I don't know what kind of switch you
have yeah anyway comes with a power cord
comes with this quick start guide comes with a product information
thing yeah I guess I wasn't really expecting much more to be included with
this it's uh so what do you need a switch for so a switch is basically a
way of splitting in a more intelligent
manner a network connection so um I here perfect example is right
here actually my okay my main Network Hub is in the other room so like one
room over there and uh what I have there is I have my modem from Shaw then I have
my router which has four ports and then I have a switch and that switch plugs
into the power line kit that's going downstairs it plugs into the two
computers that are in that room I have a spare coming off when I need to plug
something in temporarily I have one that goes into the room on this side for my
Windows Home Server and I have one that comes actually here check this up right
over here I have one that comes in through the wall Very elegantly by the
way that runs to this wireless router
right here now I'm no longer using this for its wireless capability I've
actually turned off the routing and turned off the wireless and I'm just using it as a switch because it's a four
port switch so that way I have one incoming I have one going out to the
test bench and then I have one going out to my work laptop whenever I'm doing
work work from home uh in this room so that's what a switch does you basically
take one gigabit backbone and then you run that out to a bunch of other gigabit
things so the way that these computers or devices are going to communicate with
each other is let's say your your uh connection to the main Network your main
gigabit network is through one that means that computer plugged into a
computer plugged into Port two can communicate via gigabit to that Network
however if you have three computers in ports 2 three and four and they all need
to communicate with something on the other side so through here then you're
going to be limited to Total gigabit speed with three so that is sort of
theoretical 333 megabits per second however computer 2 could talk to
computer 4 at full gigabit speed so what you're doing is you're you're creating
like a sort of a a sub gigabit Network that then has one gigabit link to the
rest of your in theory fully gigabit Network okay so this is the se2800 it is
a pretty plain looking little box it's got a Cisco logo on the front it's got
some ventilation holes all the way around the outside of the chassis it's
got a power indicator as well as power in and the ability to turn the lights on
and off in theory okay it's got eight ports these are all gigabit as I've
covered several times so far and it has ventilation on the bottom so we got
little feet here so that it sits a little bit off the table or floor or
wherever you put it and then you're going to have natural convection drawing
air through the bottom and then out the side so thank you for checking out my
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