12-Port 10G Web Smart Switch, TEG-7124WS

Great little switch. I just rewired my house with this as the backbone. I was expecting it would give me gig speeds, considering parts of my home were wired with Cat5e, and other parts are Cat6. But I was surprised to find that all of the ports are at 10G. Unfortunately, I only have one endpoint with a 10G NIC to do a proper throughput test. Here are some pros/cons I observed. Pro: Plenty of ports. Good balance between copper and SFP+ slots, which can be used with copper or fiber. Had no trouble negotiating with other switches and endpoints I have, which support 1, 2.5, and 10G. Runs cooler than other switches I have tried from a Chinese manufacturer. US manufacturer, so warranty claims and support may not be an issue (I hope). Easy and fast configuration, was up and running in minutes. Just the right balance of features (L2 and L3). CLI (console and SSH) and web-managed, so the options are great. Con: Fan noise, but it's to be expected. Mine is in the garage, so it's not bothersome. But its hard to see how this would work as a desk switch. But the fan speeds do change with ambient temperature, which is nice. For an expensive switch, it doesn't come with dust caps. Considering these get deployed in places where bugs can crawl in and set up a warm nest, it should have been shipped with dust caps. I bought some separately to cover the SFP+ ports. The spec sheet only mentions 1,2.5, and 10G speeds. But the graphics and interface include 5G, so I don't know if it can do 5G speeds as well. Will do some testing and update. Wish it had a link utilization graph on the interface. I know it has robust RMON and SNMP support, but it's faster for a quick glance. Most switches I have interacted with come with a ground on the switch body; this didn't. I guess it's not needed or expected that the rack be grounded. I was split between this and Zyxel, but the deal offering made this irresistible. It offered the same features with more ports and was slightly cheaper. Power consumption is hovering around 33W in my case, with low to no load, but sitting in the garage, where the fan seems to run continuously.

I bought this on Prime Day as part of my effort to bring my home network into the modern age; it was an offer I could not refuse. I'm not running anything yet which requires 10G, but it is an investment toward being future-resistant. So far, no issues aside from a router upstream not identifying it (although it knows its existence). I'll figure it out eventually; it is no fault of the switch and at my age, I'm in no real hurry anyway. I bought a 12U rack to install it & a few other goodies, and the rack currently sits on a desk adjacent to my work area. I do not find the fan noise particularly objectionable, even though it runs continuously; your mileage may vary. Overall, this seems like a quality smart switch. I'm glad I made the purchase.

I had a NAS die on me, and things started spinning out of control. The old NAS only had two 100 megabit ports. So I got a Synology DS923+ and saw that I was saturating the gigabit connection. That led to getting the 10 gigabit card, and I found that I was saturating the connection on my 2.5 gigabit switch. And then Prime Day happened, and I bought a DS1122+ with another 10 gigabit card. And if you're going to have two NAS devices capable of 10 gigabits -- you need a 10 gigabit switch, right? Realizing I was going way, way past overkill for home use, I decided if I was going 10 gigabit, I was going as inexpensive as practical. Since I'm adding to an existing network with different vendors and VLANs, having something semi-managed was essential, and fully-managed would be even nicer. Now -- there is a much less expensive managed 10 gig switch that's all SFP+ which I had considered, but I just didn't feel good about the no-name company that made it. Not that TRENDNet is top-tier, but they've been around long enough that I can count on them releasing firmware updates from time to time, and reasonably trust that there's nothing nefarious baked into the hardware. When this initially arrived, I was a little puzzled that it wasn't pulling a DHCP address. I had to go into the documentation to discover that this comes from the factory set to 192.168.10.200 and apparently, you're not changing it without a console connection or a device on that network. That's about 75% of the reason I docked a star. I guess you can make some argument for airgap security on a switch being a good thing, but I just don't see a use case for this grade of switch where that's necessary enough to outweigh the convenience of fast setup. Anyway. The GUI isn't awful All the functions you'd reasonably expect to need are there and easy -- maybe too easy -- to use. I kind of with things like ACLs could be set on a single page per port, and that doing things like setting up LACP could be done as "these three ports" instead of having to turn it on port-by-port, but I'm picking nits here. What is a bit annoying is that some of the pages show ports that the switch doesn't have, while other pages have you selecting ports off of a sketch of the switch. Consistency is not a priority to their UX team. That said, the GUI is extremely fast as switches go, and not every config change requires a reboot. The only other odd thing that stood out to me was when I used an SFP+ module to connect to my Cisco gigabit switch, the Cisco switch looked like the interface was flapping, and the TRENDNet switch didn't show a module installed at all. Forcing the port to gigabit resolved the problem, but I was a little surprised that it didn't auto set to max capability. (Though in fairness, the module is pretty cheap and may not report it.) All things being equal, I'd buy this again. The config annoyances are minor, and the speed is divine.

My setup is straightforward, and I've tested the switch with two Linux-based computers equipped with Intel x540 pcie(note that this NIC are not supported on Windows 11) and a PFSense router with VLAN. The results have been impressive, with iperf tests yielding speeds of around 9.3Gbps. Additionally, I've noticed a significant reduction in ping times, from 2-3ms to 0.15ms, although this may not be noticeable for most users. TRENDnet regularly releases firmware updates, which gives me peace of mind - a key factor in my purchasing decision, as some cheaper alternatives don't offer this level of support. One thing to note is that this switch is slightly on the noisier side. It does produce a gentle hum that's audible in quiet environments. If you're planning to use it in a silent workspace or home office, you may want to take this into consideration.

This is an OK managed 10G switch. The pros are the price, getting 12 managed ports (8x 10GBE + 4x 10G SFP+) under $500 is hard to beat. The Web UI is not bad either, takes a second to get VLANs going. A major flaw is on bootup, the switch seems to put all ports in VLAN 0 and connect them all together. this of course is addressed once it boots up, but you now have to worry about power on sequencing. It also takes about 2 minutes to boot up, a bit slow. Two other major points: it has a fan in it, the fan is audible in a quiet environment. The switch gets very hot so the fan is required, I think TrendNet should have looked at better airflow options, possible a larger fan type to address heat and noise and other power issues. Finally it's physically large. Looking inside the case, it's mostly empty space so it doesn't have to be this thick, or this deep... but it is. Noisey Hot Larger than needed VLAN0 on all ports on bootup I would be happy to replace it with a smaller, silent switch.

Great switch for a high speed smart home backbone.

One of the few that actually works and doesn’t take a ton of setup. Love this switch.

I really liked the specs on this switch, so I ordered one for my planned 10Gbps upgrade to my home LAN. My impression of Trendnet up until now has been great. I have five of their 1Gbps PoE managed switches, and they've never given me any trouble. This switch seemed to mostly work like it was supposed to. The only glitch I discovered was when it wouldn't let me enter the "System Contact" or "System Location" values during the system setup. Whenever I clicked "Apply" after entering anything in those fields, I got the error message: "ERROR - System Settings Invalid Value Patch Fail" The switch worked great for two days in all modes and all speeds, but on day three, it stopped working correctly. Everything looked okay, and pings would make it through the switch, but iperf3 consistently failed, ssh connections would fail, and any sort of data transfer just wouldn't work anymore. It sat on the same bench, in the same air conditioned office the whole time, so it wasn't a matter of extreme environmental conditions, or excessive workload. I tried a factory reset, and saw no improvement. I called the Trendnet support hotline, and the support tech was clueless and ambivalent, suggesting that I just return the switch. I would have expected the switch to detect a problem like this during POST, but it gave all indications that it was fine. With my test setup unchanged from the prior two days, I re-verified it by connecting two of the 10GBase-T lines together via a keystone feedthrough instead of through the switch -- everything worked fine without the switch in the path. I gave up and returned this to Amazon. I'll try a different brand next, perhaps something from QNAP...

It works perfectly with my servers with Intel and Broadcom 10GbE nics, which is not easy and most low-end 10G switches could be archived.

Managed with one of the cheapest name brand cost per port. Have 4 of them in total for my Small Business 10G Backbone network using copper SFP+ cables. Using this instead of a larger port density as this way I can also tolerate switch failures.

First off, hardware version is 2.0 for those who want to know, and it does come with rackmount hardware. The switch does support 5Gbps (contrary to what Trendnet's website indicates) as it correctly detects the speed of my 5GbE to USB-C adapter that was connected to another device (see screenshot). This switch has a problem with pinging addresses by DNS name (for troubleshooting purposes) or using NTP with DNS names though those work when using IP addresses (see screenshot). Tech support seems relatively basic as they just suggest the basic factory reset and ensure DNS server addresses are filled in, and it's been two months when I opened a support ticket and there haven't been any updates to resolve this DNS issue. Dark theme seems to be an afterthought compared to the default light theme since some UI elements don't stand out like in light theme. I purchased this switch when there was a price drop so if you can get it at lower than MSRP then it may be worth it. Otherwise, it's better to get a 10GbE switch from another brand.