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Customer Review
- Reviewed in Canada on September 11, 2021I got this to insert between my cable modem and two separate Wifi Routers. The idea is that one router can be a physically separated "guest" network, and the other serves our regular internal "secure" network.
Any Gigabit switch can do that job though. But with a managed switch, I can put the regular route and the modem onto one vlan, and the guest router and the (same) modem onto another separate vlan, for guaranteed separation. I'm very technical, but LAN security is new to me, and using vlan isolation provides some extra confidence for now. This all works just fine.
The only complaint, echoing an earlier reviewer, is that there's no setting in the GUI to assign the management (web) interface to a specific vlan. So all vlans have access to the management interface. Let's just hope that a strong password is enough to keep it secure!
Otherwise, this is a good, sturdy feeling 5-port gigabit switch, in a full metal jacket, that costs only slightly more than an unmanaged switch. The management feature will be useful here in the future for cable fault testing, and especially for the port-mirroring feature (needed when monitoring a device with WireShark).
Time will tell, but decent enough for the job, and especially for the price!
