
I now have several of these in service. One has been running for over 4 years now. They work as advertised, are inexpensive and allegedly consume less power. I like that they have a metal housing too.

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.

- Solid build quality. Steel housing. - PoE standard is 802.3af (too bad not 802.3at PoE+) and delivers 55W across 4 ports. For a business solution, maybe you'd need more, but for an 8-port switch it is pretty good. PoE does have port priority and overload arrangement. - Managed switch, L2 switching features: Link Aggregation, Port Mirroring and VLANs. - Fanless design. - Seems to power my UniFi UAP-AC-PRO with no problems. - So far so good, excellent performance on my Gigabit network. Transfer speeds are saturating at ~1Gbps.

Purchased for my Plex home network main switch. I have 7 hard wired machines and I was able to stream uncompressed 1080p videos on all 7 effortlessly on this. It has been running flawlessly for a week now and I could not be happier. The price was great too.

Super fast switch Simple connection

