GS1200-8

Only have had this product for a few days and I love it so far. It does exactly what I need it to do for my personal home ESXi Media Server and File server management. Supports IPv4 & IPv6, port LAGs (to link the file server to the Media Server with a 2Gbps LAG group), limited to 32 Vlans, which is plenty enough (not that one would need more than half a dozen for a simple home network) which allows for the traffic from the file server to the media server to never leave the switch and kept separated from other traffic. I still have to play with the Vlan tagging features more to figure out if there is a way to support more than one Vlan ID per switchport as the WebGUI is not very explicit as to how the Vlan tagging feature works. Now for the bad. A lesser concern I found is that here seems to be no feature to force the link to be at a 1000 full. It can be set to auto, 10 or 100 full but there is no 1000 full option available (granted, any device capable of 1000 full will auto-negotiate such a speed, but this seems like a bit of an oversight). The Management interface seems to also only accept simple AlphaNumeric characters (A through Z, lower and upper case and 0 to 9) but no special characters whatsoever. My greatest concern is that the management WebGUI seems to only be accessible through http and does not seem to support https or network traffic encryption in any shape or form natively. I have not yet found any firmware version (though it may very well exist) that supports https (I'd be plenty happy even with a self-signed certificate). This would be the sole reason for my rating this a 4 Star item (I would honestly rate it 4.5 if such an option existed) instead of giving it a 5 star stellar review. Overall, none of those relatively small issues, would be deal breakers or cause any major security concerns for a small home network. The switch does what it advertises to do and does it well. A definite excellent buy.

Awesome, inexpensive, managed switch. For the price, this little switch is awesome! Works well, no issues with this one or any other Zyxel products I have. Easy to set up if you want to use the managed part of it or pretty much plug and play for a basic switch.

Good feature set for the price: Minuses: - switch can not tag the default VLAN on a trunk port (like most other entry-level managed switches); - web management only - confusing firmware upload (displays fake windows path for upload - update works anyway) Plusses: + Fanless/Silent + Metal case, solid build construction, small form factor + Quick boot + Actively supported (latest firmware as of this review 13 October 2021) + Can assign the web interface VLAN to something other than the default VLAN Others have complained about the web interface being windows specific. I haven't seen that. I've configured it on a Mac/Chrome and Linux/Firefox. Neither seems to be a problem. This is both with the firmware that came with the switch V2.00(ABKM.0)CO, and after I updated to the current (as of March 2022) revision V2.00(ABKM.1)CO Configuration isn't hard - it presents the standard * PVID configuration (policy for packets entering a port) and * VLAN membership configuration (which port belongs to which VLAN(s), policy for packets exiting a port) controls. The visual layout and coloring of the ports in the interface (grey - not a member, green - access port (member, emit without tag) and orange - trunk port (member, emit tagged) make it pretty easy to understand/update the configuration. I haven't speed tested the switch; it doesn't have to be very fast for its intended use is as an edge switch. I've got it in a media center at the edge of the network - connecting both untrusted network-of-things devices to a DMZ VLAN and a wireless guest access point to a GUEST VLAN, it's web interface configured on a CONTROL VLAN, with all VLANs trunked to a main switch. I haven't had it long enough to judge the reliability.

This is my second zyxel switch, the GS1200-8. I also have the GS1900-8HP. They make great switches from what I can tell, but I’m no expert. $25 for a web managed gigabit switch is impossible to beat I think. The web management interface (WMI) is pretty intuitive, if simple. I doubt the GS1200-8 has all the most advanced features of more expensive managed switches. Its WMI is pretty sparse compared to screenshots of others I’ve seen, but it does what I need. Interestingly, the GS1900-8HP Power over Ethernet switch from Zyxel has very different firmware compared to the GS1200-8. I haven’t compared them feature per feature, but I believe the 8HP might have more options and customizable features. Need to do side-by-side comparison of their firmware, maybe I’ll add to this review after I do that. The power brick is tiny compared to the Power over Ethernet power brick from the other Zyxel switch I own. The switch itself is also tiny. I didn’t realize when I bought that it would be physically about 1/3 the size of the 8HP PoE switch I already had. Very sleek little unit. Solid metal case with a nice rough (anodized?) texture. Case screws are quite tight, but I got ‘em loose and opened it up to take a peak inside. Don’t know anything about electronics manufacturing, but these internal components are of as high a quality as I’ve seen. I’m seeing blazing fast speeds on all my devices passing through the switch. I have not done any formal, rigorous testing, but so far I am quite pleased with this switch. It works great for a home or small business network. If you have high end enterprise-grade networking requirements, this switch may not be ideal, although for the price it’s certainly worth seeing if it meets your needs because you will pay far more for a Linksys, Netgear, or Cisco switch. Also of note is that Zyxel actively patches their equipment. The firmwares for both of my Zyxel switches have fairly recent updates, need to check the dates for their latest firmwares and I’ll include them in a future edit. It’s not as if Zyxel slaps these things together and ships them without intending to support the firmware and issue bug fixes and security patches. No they seem to do a pretty good job of staying up to date with these things Instructions that come with the unit are a bit sparse, but Zyxel’s online tutorials and videos are good, and although I haven’t needed it yet, I believe their customer support is decent as well. This would be a great choice for a managed gigabit switch even if the price wasn’t so competitive, just make sure it has the features you need.

Affordable little switch that meets the need. No issues. Good speed. Thanks!

Everything is throgh a web interface. There is no need for an app or any other software. It's about as easy as VLANs can be made. The price is also nice and aggressive.

I bought this switch for home use. I have a server that has quite a bit of traffic going to is, so I wanted to trunk it/Link Aggregate it. At first I couldn't get it to work, I was trying to use LACP from my server and no matter what I did it wouldn't work. Once I changed it to Load Balancing everything worked great. Online interface is good, and I like it's small form factor.

I find that this is a nice switch if you need to have some thing to carry around in a kit for use in a pinch or if you need some thing at your desk to hook up multiple printers or computers as I did. I placed this under my desk in order to take the one port I had on the wall and hook up a laptop or desktop and have an extra port for if somebody brought a computer into my office I find that this is a nice switch if you need to have something to carry around in a kit for use in a pinch or if you need some thing at your desk to hook up multiple printers or computers as I did. I placed this under my desk in order to take the one port I had on the wall and hook up a laptop or desktop and have an extra port for if somebody brought a computer into my office. That said I’m a little disappointed with the management features in the switch. They are very basic and don’t even compare to even what’s in something like a dell switch, much less than ADTRAN or Cisco. But I guess I didn’t expect to get that level of technology for this price. So at the end of the day I’m happy with what I got for the money

Dispositivo muy eficiente. Cero ruido, creo emisión de calor. Necesito otro!

Solid switch, interface is easy to use, vlans work great amd its been stable so far

Awesome product did the job it described it would do. Great value !!!