Binardat 4 Port 2.5G Web Managed Switch with 2x10G SFP+ Slot, Ultra-Mini Size, Support Trunk/LACP/VLAN/QOS, Metal Multi-Gigabit Desktop/Wallmount Network Switch

Worked with 10gb spf+ connections and 2.5 gb rj45 right out of the box. Really very, very small. Spf+ connectors will not fit but reach “outside” the units front. Not a Big thing, but beware if you think it goes all the way in. Cheap too. Like it a lot.

Perfect for the price. I would have supper impressed if the os was the same as it bigger brother where I can define its IP per VLAN.

Let me be clear, it is exactly as advertised in the sense that you can absolutely vlan off all 4 2.5 gig ports also I can if I wanted bond them all or any combo to achieve up to a total of 10gb via the 2.5gb ports... I think these LACP features were the primary reason for me going with a managed version vs an unmanaged version, the truth is I would rather just have a transparent switch that is also capable of aggregation on those ports but also alows me the full bandwidth pass threw of the sfp ports because the plan was to add this into a low cost 10gb sfp+ enabled homelab setup that is just an amalgam of various systems of a variety of specs and one of those NAS systems that is ultra low power with super low wattage archive smr drives is a always on target that is only equipped with dual 2.5gb nics and uses large capacity nvme solid start targets for write caching but not at crazy speeds just better than the slow SMR drive speeds especially when not in a stripped array and I thought perhaps this will enable me to tie into the in place sfp+ network and also give me a few slower options so I can retire one whole system that is acting exclusively as networking fabric with hot copper 10gb nics and similar quad 2.5gb nics that end up taking to many pcie lanes and power but that system also has dual 1gb nics onboard that provide my "management" network for all the servers in the rack but iv only recently upgraded from unstable copper 10gb ethernet that is running more that 30m to my rack with a 2.5gb backup but now the same copper that was the 2.5gb backup can be used as a dedecated management line while the cat7 copper can be downgraded to either 2.5gb or even 5gb which all my 10gb hardware can do 5gb and 2.5gb and at 5gb that 30m copper is more than enough and my new 10gb sfp+ network is stupid stable with some low cost mellanox connectx 3 nics so i dont have a need for a 10gb copper backup so i was going to instantiate a 5gb copper network for the allways on ring of my homelab and reserve the sfp+ network for when my hypervisor based container orchestrator determins that HPC is needed for the task...This is all well and good but I need a switch that is low power and can transparent to my firewall provide these different tiers of network and all be in the same subnet as the master and this switch seems to be setup more like a firewall or DHCP device than a transparent switch but an unmanaged one won't have the same LACP features I need and many of this same port spec ones iv seen don't enable the use of both sfp+ bridged so one can be the uplink and the other simply a pass threw with the switching bandwidth to also provide all 4 2.5gb nics with there max bandwidth of course at the cost of bandwidth to the client sfp port when the slower nics are fully utilized... Perhaps I'm the dense one and there is some other layer level that would better serve these needs... But also at what cost, if it's cheaper to keep the low cost n300 mini itx system in place that serves this exact application well than that is what I shall do...I am also going to purchase the exact same switch but the unmanaged version so I can test it against my very asscentric usecase lol...I actually was considering purchasing 2 more of these to see if I can bond all 4 ports on both and get basically a 4port sfp+ switch going that is considerably cheaper than any low port count sfp+ 10gb switch iv ever seen and short cat6e cables are super cheap so... Ya ... Just a curiosity......but I'm also addicted to buying s#!t at this point so it's probably still going to happen even if they end up in a box after never to see the light of any of my blinking lights weird servers setups again lol...but no if I did that I would certainly use them as these switches are ultra low power realtek based and are far cheaper than mini PCs simply for networking lol... That basically why I ended up with so many odd ball systems in my homelab to begin with, just me opting for cheaper pcie nics than shelling out hundreds for dedecated switching with the added bonus of more compute and memory and storage to nievly offer up to the misunderstood container master in an etempt to win favor and maybe eliveate some of my troubleshooting tribulations ...but alas more systems of a varity of archetcturs and performace capabilities with some being required for basic communication is an exacerbation of my troubles... Who could have thunk it...Lol

Works fine; easy to set up

It performs well especially for the price. This test was on short runs of a cheapo cat5e cable and a improper aluminum cat7ish cable, so far from ideal. I also ignored the instructions to ground the thing, but its taped to the bottom of a desk, not in a server room, sooo.```iperf -c 192.168.0.50------------------------------------------------------------Client connecting to 192.168.0.50, TCP port 5001TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)------------------------------------------------------------[ 1] local 192.168.0.8 port 49648 connected with 192.168.0.50 port 5001 (icwnd/mss/irtt=14/1460/459)[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth[ 1] 0.0000-10.0220 sec 2.77 GBytes 2.37 Gbits/sec```

I was shipped a an used unit that was missing parts.

Funcionó perfectamente, tengo 2 servidores con conexiones de 10 SFP+ y se conectaron de inmediato, ademas llegó a tiempo y la calidad del equipo es muy buena. Se siente confiable, es metálico.

I have purchased at least 4 different brands of fiber/ethernet switches and brands I have come across for my particular. application. My fiber network is runs with all Netgear switches as Netgear is the best brand for my budget.The remaining fiber/ethernet switches could be replaced with RJ45 SFPs, but I preferred to try the cheap Chinese knock-offs. I get the impression that most of the Chinese equipment has designs shared amongst many companies or families as the software interface (on manages switches) are almost the same and are all a pain in the ass to master. Oh well. You get what you pay for. I have finally settled on Binardar 4-port ethernet switched (really fiber to Ernet) to feed my NAS boxes. You may not want to follow this path as my NAS boxes do not need to be high speed, necessarily. For the High-speed, I use a Dell box with a fiber port to feed the AV data. When I come back in my next life, I will upgrade to CISCO, but, that will have to be seen... :)The brands I've tried (excluding Netgear) are Binardat, RealHD, Trendnet, and Mokerlink.