D-LinkDGS-1100-05V2 5-Port Gigabit Smart Managed Switch with VLAN support, layer 2 features, QoS, 802.3az EEE, Fanless

I wanted a small 5-port managed switch initially to monitor network traffic by mirroring the traffic to a monitoring port, and later for use with an OpenBSD-powered Raspberry Pi WireGuard client gateway (see attached pic). The latter uses VLANs to effectively add one or more Ethernet ports to the Raspberry Pi and is easier much higher performance in my experience than using USB Ethernet adaptors. I found WireGuard throughput was limited to 100Mbit/s with an Ethernet adaptor but this rose to 200Mbit/s using VLANs and the D-Link switch. It could be even higher but my Internet connection is limited to 220Mbit/s !The switch has worked perfectly in both roles and was very easy to set up, the only gotcha being the need to reduce the default bridging VLAN1 to one port only first so as to allow ports to be allocated to the untagged VLANs. I used eth1 as the VLAN trunk link to the RPi, eth2 for the Internet connection and eth3 for the internal network.An added benefit is that the switch is 5V-powered so can be run off a multi-output USB power brick (see attached pic) with the purchase of a separate USB-to-5.5/2.1mm plug (pin +ve) cable.

I've used many switches from the DGS-1100 range including this -08v2, as well as: -05PD, -08P, and -24Pv2. All have a similar webUI and are easy to configure and manage, once you know the default IP is 10.90.90.90. These switches offer line-rate performance on all ports and in my experience are completely reliable and have very low power consumption.The port stats and cable test features are useful to check cabling issues.My go-to switch.

No regrets or disappointments. Exactly what I expected. No more, no less.

Metal-bodied switch which has all the spanning tree, VLAN, QOS & port monitoring & mirroring features of the similarly priced TP-Link TL-SG108E and Netgear GS108Ev3 & GS308E switches but in a slightly smaller form factor. It also has much more detailed configuration of features (IGMP, STP etc.) at per-port/per-VLAN level and additional control over dedicated management, surveillance & VoIP VLANs.

Doesn't matter where you will connect, you have 100% transfer from Internet.

Easy to setup and management features are ready to use

It came quite quickly and so far has performed very well!

I bought this managed switch to enable me to use link aggregation on my Asustor NAS. However, I found it important impossible to access the settings as use have to use an IP Address that is nut in the normal range for the router and gave an error when entering it. Despite hours spent on the internet trying to find out how to access this different sub-net I eventually gave up and tossed the switch away. The instructions were impossible for a non-expert to follow. I am not a novice with computers and can normally figure out what needs to be done eventually with a bit of research but this completely stumped me. They should understand that, although not many non-experts will want a managed switch, there are occasions where interested amateurs want to use it for a purpose like link aggregation or a VLAN and they should make the instructions capable of being understood by someone other than an IT expert.

I’ll preface that the build quality is good, and the software UI while INCREDIBLY dated is intuitive enough to find your way around. But if you need any kind of help, don’t click on any of the support links as they all lead to broken pages or content in Chinese that doesn’t have a corresponding alternative page.

For the money you can not go wrong with this managed switch, it even supports SNMP and bolts into Zabbix for monitoring. If I had any wish I'd love if it had a 2.5G or SFP port for uplink ... Power consumption is low 3-4W, it's nice and compact, and the power cable goes out the back. Setup is a little bizarre, the switch is not DHCP enabled (10.90.90.90) out of the box, but this was easily accommodated. And when you make changes and apply them in sub menus, be sure and click save configuration or every time you have a reboot or a power off of the switch you will loose your changes.

For the money you can not go wrong with this managed switch, it even supports SNMP and bolts into Zabbix for monitoring. If I had any wish I'd love if it had a 2.5G or SFP port for uplink ... Power consumption is low 3-4W, it's nice and compact, and the power cable goes out the back. Setup is a little bizarre, the switch is not DHCP enabled (10.90.90.90) out of the box, but this was easily accommodated. And when you make changes and apply them in sub menus, be sure and click save configuration or every time you have a reboot or a power off of the switch you will loose your changes.

It works. This is all I need from it. Good product. Recommended.

I forgot that these dlink switches are cheap for a reason. Lack of VLAN tagged and Port based is bizarre limiting feature. I can get this feature with any TP-Link, Netgear, Grandstream in the similar price range. I opted to just not deploy these and ordered Grandstreams. I learned my lesson to never buy dlink again