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The MS305 (pay attention to the model number when purchasing) is a fine addition to a home network, especially with moving moderately large amounts of data between devices (pictures, streaming, archives) internally or via the Internet.

- Full 2.5gbps speed on all ports! - It does the job without any compromise. I've saturated the 2.5gb ports many times and it performs well.

I hooked this up and all is going well. Very easy, lousy instructions, but works great for me.

Fits into the Ubuiquti ecosystem perfectly. Lowest price by far for anywhere near the quality and specifications for a NAS of this kind. 10 gigabit port. My Mac can format it APFS, just like an external drive. File sharing is a breeze. Security is easy to set up. Seven drive bays. RAID 5, 6, and 1+0 (with hot spare). Multiple volumes. Perfect integration into Ubiquity ecosystem.

An EggExpert Review: The purpose of a network switch is to allow you to add more wired ports to your router. Most home routers come with a five port switch built into them. By connecting one port off of your router to one port on this switch you have now added seven more ports to connect your wired devices. The TP-Link TL-SG108 is an excellent choice for a home network switch as it has 8 ports that operate in a 10/100/1000Mb per second mode for each port on the switch. Based on the color of the light above each port it will tell you if that device connected to that port is operating at 10/100Mbps or 1000Mbps. Yellow is 10/100 Mbps which is what most pc will communicate with the internet or you network most of the time. The 1000Mbps range would only be green and used for uploading or downloading files, or streaming data like watching a movie from your home server on your pc via your network. This switch could also be used for a small office. I stress small office or home use as this switch operates in Mbps not MBps. A business network often measure their network in MBps. The difference is speed. Mbps means Million Bits Per Second. MBps means Million Bytes Per Second. It takes 8 bits to equal 1 byte. Example: 10MBps = 80Mbps, 100MBps = 800Mbps, and 1000MBps = 8000Mbps. Other attributes of this switch are it has a small foot print and it is attractive, so if you actually had it sitting atop your desk it would not be an eye sore. Although you would want to induce cable management as you wouldn’t want Cat5e or Cat6 cables all over your desk.

If you need to put all your devices, (PC, TV, NVR, Laptops, Printer) on the internet than you need to buy this. Wire ethernet is much faster and more error free than wireless.

Small/efficient design Flexible PoE output

Hard to go wrong with this 8port switch since it cost just about the same as a normal run of the mill unmanaged switch. A straight out of the box the switch will work just like a dumb-switch allowing for plug and play of any device. So in reality someone could get this switch and use like a normal unmanaged switch and upgrade in the future to using its advance features such as VLAN’s. The overall appearance of this switch is nice. I have work with multiple other style of switches and metal housings are the way to go. No molded plastic housing’s that flex when you breathe on them. Moving onto the GUI you can find some nice and very useful functions and features there. Mentioned by another review is the cable test feature. Very nice feature for some quick troubleshooting, though I wouldn’t get to attached on this as nothing beats the good old physical inspection to ensure everything is in order. Though the cable testing feature allows for the manager to quickly tell you if there is a problem with the cable connected to a particular port. Just like all managed switches I have dealt with before this can handle trunking though TP-Link calls it LACP. It also supports port mirroring which is a big security risk in my opinion so be sure to secure your switch before enabling something like this. Though port mirroring allows for snooping of a port so that an administrator can view what is going over a port without having to be plugging into that port.

* Nice compact form factor * Included power adapter option is nice * Even nicer is being able to power it off PoE - one less wire/plug socket to deal with * Integrates well with the UniFi Network app, showing what devices are connected to it

I've had this running for about 5 months. Small size and easy to mount means you can put it just about anywhere. Software allows you to view statistics on each port, QOS stats, or establish VLAN's.

Super easy setup. Plenty of POE ports.

Easy installation. It is a "smart" switch and can provide basic information on port status and VLAN configuration.