Ubiquiti UniFi Flex Mini 5-Port PoE Switch

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Its robust build ensures durability, while its advanced management features make network monitoring and configuration a breeze. Power over Ethernet (PoE) switches are becoming increasingly popular for home networking, as they allow users to power their access points and other PoE devices over the same Ethernet cable that they use for data transmission. If you need to integrate other UISP equipment like point-to-point or point-to-multipoint radios, the UISP models make more sense.

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Imagine 30 people with 100/30 connections are using that speed test server and it has a 5gb connection and you come along with 2.If you would like to learn more about our brand awareness and social media presence, why not follow us on Instagram? If you can give up on layer 3, the MS120-8FP and MS130-8P and their various submodels are the closest alternatives. Generally, it is best to use networking brands to match with access points, but this is not a hard and fast rule. If your budget is a bit higher and your needs align with Meraki’s offering, there is no desktop-sized switch with layer 3 support.

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Everyone has their favorites, but we generally favor TP-Link for smaller home deployments and either TP-Link or Netgear for larger home deployments. If you go for anything other than the U6-Enterprise access point, you may as well keep your USW-FLEX-XG and power the access point off the UDM SE because they all have 1GbE links.I prefer to zoom out and look at the new Professional 8 PoE for what it is: something to fill a small hole in a big lineup. TP-Link has done its best to replicate the UniFi ecosystem, down to some similar designs and feature limitations.