TRENDnet 24-Port Gigabit Web Smart PoE Switch (24x 10/100 PoE,4x 10/100/1000, 2x Mini-GBIC) TPE-224WS (Black)

1 Review to this product

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  D. Davis
  September 9th, 2010 on 4:27 am

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  This was purchased to be the central hub of a IP camera security system. Configuring it was dirt simple once you got an IP address on it. Out of the box its on the 192.168.0 subnet and it doesn’t do DHCP initially which means you need to move it over to something other than your normal environment long enough to set it up. Once there, set up is a snap. The POE functions are nice with a power draw screen allowing you to figure your budget. Its running 12 Toshiba IK15A cameras without issues and the gig uplinks (there are 4 yay!) appear fully able to inter-operate with my server (using IBM cards) and a somewhat not standards compliant apple airport used for individual camera setup. I didn’t test out the vlan tagging functions as they were not needed in my application. As far as port control, cloning etc. all the normal knobs and control rods one would expect seem to exist.

  The only real complaint I’ve got is the fans. Not that its loud or anything, but if you had this next to you and were watching a 777 take off, you’d not hear the plane over the roar of the cooling system. It does not appear to be moving massive amounts of air, so no worries about it sucking in the cat or anything, Its just that unless you are racking Cummings 6bt tractor engines; its likely this will be the loudest thing in your rack by a wide margin.