Zyxel 24-Port Gigabit PoE Switch | Smart Managed | Rackmount | 24 PoE+ Ports with 170 Watt Budget and 2 SFP Port | VLAN, IGMP, QoS | Lifetime Warranty [GS1900-24HPv2]

Great switch for the money, easy setup and friendly GUI interface. A lot of LVL2 functionality for advanced users. Great choice for SOHO and Home users.

After an absolutely unacceptable experience with Cisco, I decided to give something different a try. I had a GREAT experience with Zyxel network gear and now use their switches and WAPs exclusively. I have several different buildings all with very different loads and demands. All of them are loving their network and I love the fact that you don't need extra controllers or dongles to manage everything from one cloud console. Everything about this equipment is mint and is every bit as good as Cisco...and this stuff makes Ubiquiti look like an absolute joke!

Have had for a week now, works great, very quiet. For awareness, even though it shows GS1900-24HP on the switch itself, it truly is GS1900-24HPV2, which has both reset and restore buttons on the front vs just reset button (I originally thought I received the wrong product).

Obviously, this is a SOHO/SMB switch company. It's not designed to be a HA, dual PSU enterprise grade aggregation switch with a well known CLI. There are compromises that the purchaser needs to be aware of and do their research first, before slamming someone's work, as if they were intentionally deceived. If you want near enterprise grade, spend the $1200+ for that type of switch. You'll get what you paid for, and it'll last for many years without issues. For example, the GS1900-24HPv2 from Zyxel is 24 ports of active PoE, with a 375W PSU to back up all the ports, and so on. So many of the reviewers can't seem to do the math for TOTAL PoE / ports (130W total power for all PoE ports, using 802.11at; is 12.95W ea @ the device), total power isn't sufficient for all ports to be lit with ~13W of PoE on a 24 port switch at one time. This should be obvious to anyone in networking, or someone that can read the specs on the vendor's website. What attracted me most to this switch is that it's convective for cooling (fanless) as opposed to using fans. It sits right next to my office desk. My former switch was fan based and gave me headaches for months, so it had to go. This Zyxel 1900-24EP switch is a fine 'smart' managed' switching product for SOHO as my "aggregation" switch with plenty of capacity to power my access points, my IP phones and my cameras (8 total PoE devices). It's at a decent price that a technical worker can afford, and is reasonably configurable with a decent GUI and a frankly terrible CLI (like I said previously, not an enterprise grade device). The backplane seems fast enough that I noticed a slight bump in network responsiveness replacing an old Cisco SMB switch with this device.

Great switcher.