TRENDnet 16-Port Unmanaged Gigabit GREENnet Desktop Metal Switch, Ethernet Splitter, Fanless,16 x RJ-45 Ports, 32 Gbps Forwarding Capacity, TEG-S16DG

It is easy to install, and just works with no issues or fuss! I'd buy it again.

This unit fixed years of unresolved issues that drove me crazy. Best birthday gift I ever bought for my wife to give to me.I have a demanding family home network that involves a combination of wired and wireless networked devices. I am running a Windows Server, a Network Attached Storage (NAS), 3 Multimedia (Movie)Streaming PCs, 3 Desktop PCs, 1 Laptop, 4 Netbooks, 2 DirecTV DVRs, 2 Gaming Consoles, 2 network attached Blu-ray Players, a VOIP (Internet) Telephone System, and 5 DROID X Cell Phones using Wi-Fi.All my equipment was fairly new. I had what appeared to be a simple and clean setup with a cable modem going to a simple 4 port wireless combo router. Attached to the router was a VOIP router and then two 5-port 10/100 speed switches that carried Ethernet to 3 other rooms. In each room is another 5-port 10/100 speed switch which connects to a combination of Multimedia PCs, DirecTV DVRs, Blu-ray Players and Gaming consoles.My High-speed Internet is the best offered in my location at 50 Mb/second. But none of this matters if your infrastructure is lacking. All I know is I had complaints from the kids and wife about how slow things always were. I constantly found myself restarting the cable modem and router which seemed to be a temporary fix. For years I constantly fiddle with connectivity issues, lost IPs, and choppy performance. My family finally gave up completely on trying to view the 2ND DirecTV DVR from the other room because it continually froze up.Enough was enough. Knowing that the cable modem and router were both fairly new, I started to suspect the 10/100 switches. All appeared OK, and function checked ok, but out of frustration, I still replaced them all. The two main switches were replaced with the TRENDnet 16-Port Gigabit Switch and the three remaining 5-port 10/100 switches were each replaced with the TRENDnet 5-Port Unmanaged Gigabit Switch (model TEG-S50g).Instantly all my issues were resolved for good. We can now flawlessly watch any DVR from another room. File transfers between PCs and the Internet are blazingly fast, and I'm finally seeing the 50 Mb/second Internet I've been paying for. Speed tests went from 20s and 30s to well over 60 Mb/second. I am one happy camper and highly recommend these devices.

After upgrading our broadband router to a model featuring 4 gigabit LAN ports, we decided to upgrade the rest of the network to get the performance benefits of gigabit wired ethernet.I have an extensive wired network throughout the house, but with the 4 ports on the switch, and 16 ports here, minus 2 for connecting them, that leaves me with 18 available gigabit ports. The switch has 32 GBPS bandwidth across its bus, so no problems squeezing data through the switch itself, the link, and status lights give you a myriad of diagnostic information, and the legend on the front panel clearly explains the meaning of that diagnostic information from the lights... Versatile mounting options include desktop, rack, and with a little creativity to a mount board.Unlike my old Netgear 10/100 ethernet switch, with a terribly noisy fan, this thing is nearly silent in operation (On or off I can't hear it, and my sound meter app can't detect anything...).The Green Net technology is a huge bonus to even if you only hug trees to figure out how many board feet are in them. You see nobody likes spending too much money on energy, and the ability for this to automatically power the ports off seems like it would help. Time will tell how reliable that is though.The only real problem I have with this switch, and several other folks have mentioned it as well, is the lack of the rack mounting tabs / ears / brackets whatever you want to call them. They really ought to be included. But for a top quality switch at the price of this unit. The lack of the brackets can be easily overlooked...One thing that DOES need to be mentioned. This is an unmanaged switch. I have seen reviews here and there complaining about the lack of configuration options in unmanaged switches. That is kind of the def9inition of unmanaged after all isn't it? If you need to hard set your speed negotiation / packet sizes etc... do so with your NIC driver / module, or bump up to a layer2 manged switch (at about 3x the cost of an un managed model...)

I am in the process of upgrading to a switch with Port Mirroring for network monitoring, I decided to double-check the capabilities of this model first, just to be sure it would no longer meet my needs. It will not. This is just a basic switch, with no management capability. However, basic does not mean cheap, short-lived, or not useful! I've had this in place for several years, running 24x7. I have rebooted it 2 or 3 times, and each time the switch was not the culprit. This guy dutifully passes traffic day and night, quickly, silently, and without fault. I run a business out of my home. I have 4 Terabytes of data backed up locally and to the cloud. We also have multiple smart TV's in our home, two Media Center PC's, ROKU, and a couple of Internet Radio players. I have brought our Internet connection to its knees on multiple occasions. We have much much more internal network traffic than Internet traffic. I do computer repair and am imaging computers almost constantly. That gives you some idea about how much traffic is pumped through this. It has never missed a beat and is still going strong. TRENDnet makes a quality product! I do recommend you upgrade your ethernet cables to CAT6. I could be just me, with too much data, but I have had issues with CAT5E cables. That's not a fault of the switch. CAT6 cleared everything up immediately. Now that I think about it, I seem to recall finding a damaged cable in the upgrade. It may have been one cable that caused the trouble. But this was all about 5 or 6 years ago. Naturally, my upgraded switch will also be TRENDnet!