Edimax GS-5416PLC, Long Range 16-Port Gigabit PoE+ Web Smart Switch with 4 Rj45/Sfp Combo Ports, Up to 30W per Port (Total Power Budget: 330W) for powering PoE/PoE+ Enabled Devices, Supports SNMP v3
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Good value managed PoE switch with some quirks
I was looking for a step up from an 8 port unmanaged PoE switch and this switch seemed reasonably priced for the specs. The interface is reasonably easy to navigate but the manual is not very helpful; it doesn't provide much additional details than what you can read from the interface. After my initial issue with the trunk ports not routing my VLAN traffic everything has been working great.So my initial issue was that all of my VLAN-tagged traffic coming from my access points plugged into this switch was getting dropped. I couldn't get IP addresses via DHCP, etc. So out of the box its trunk ports will drop all tagged traffic by default. I had to go in and add the two VLANs for my Iot and Guest networks, then I needed to go to the port configs for the ports where I connected my access points and the uplinks to my other unmanaged switch and my router and add in the VLAN IDs manually for the VLANs for those other networks. Then all the traffic was routed correctly and everything worked!Hope that helps someone else out there who is struggling with this interface and that issue.I'll report back if I find any other quirks or my overall experience changes but for now I'm pretty happy with this switch for the price I paid.Found a couple more minor things of which to be aware. I bought a couple SFP/SFP+ DACs to connect to the SFP+ ports on another managed switch from a different manufacturer (MikroTik). The Edimax switch would not auto-negotiate the speed and the link wouldn't work until I went into the other switch and set it manually to 1Gb. Once I did that to both ports, set them to Active LACP on both sides and updated the VLAN membership everything worked great.One more thing is that you need to manually save the configuration from RAM to NVRAM. After you get everything the way you want it if you power cycle you'll lose everything including the DHCP option if you don't save the running config to the startup config. It was a bummer to need to set up a static address again and go through the config a second time but it helped me get really comfortable with the UI.
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