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[Weaver]

Does anyone have any experience of using TP Link switches? I'm thinking about getting another one.

I'm also thinking about Netgear as I've had a trouble-free experience with one for many years.

I did also think about HP, but RevK, of AAISP, has just bought a bad HP unit, which has put me off. If I remember correctly one contributor to kitz suggested HP.

[loonylion]

I've had netgear gigabit switches (unmanaged) in my network for years now, never had any issues.

[Weaver]

Yes my Netgear switch is unmanaged, and as I said earlier, no problems. The TP link switch which went weird was managed and had a lot of incomprehensible and poorly documented functionality which just got me into a lot of trouble.

I would like to be able to control QoS and maybe exploit some VLAN features, I don't know, but it would have to be documented to such a level that it is comprehensible to a complete idiot. 

[kitz]

Mine was an unmanaged Gbe Netgear which served well for many years.   
It was only retired due to me downsizing my network and getting rid of as much cable as I could on to wireless.

[roseway]

This one looks quite good.

But more seriously, Ebuyer have a fair selection: http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Networking/cat/Switches/subcat/Switches---Managed

[kitz]

 

[Weaver]

Another nice touch,  "people who viewed this item ultimately bought" and then there is a £37 keyboard!

[Chunkers]

I have unmanaged Gb switch on my network :

TP-Link TL-SG1008D 8-Port Unmanaged Gigabit Desktop Switch

Works fine and is 'invisible' i.e. I switched it on and forgot about it.  Sounds like you are looking for something a bit more fancy though ....

I also use TP-Link Homeplugs and find them to be as good as any others, I also have a TD-8980 modem-router I use as a WAP ....in general the TP-Link gear I have is reliable and functional

C

[guest]

I have a few TP-Link around the place - they all work fine.

I think I once did a test on the main (edit - this is a TP-Link rack unit) 16-port switch in the garage (32Gbps claimed) & got about 23Gbps but that's probably more to do with clients & possibly my dodgy wiring (there's something amiss on one segment which causes it to drop to 100Mbps now & then, not got annoyed enough to check it yet).

I used Netgear for years (so far back they were called Bay Networks) then they had some QC problems mid 00's so I looked around & found I'd been paying over the odds for mediocre products (in reliability terms - I was buying the business/enterprise stuff). Not used them since other than for ADSL2+ routers.

HP - probably wouldn't consider them for unmanaged as they cost too much for what is a basic switch.