TEG-S750

I've been using TrendNet switches for a couple of years now. The new 10G switch is replacing a 2.5G switch in my office, I'm trying to future proof my setup. Immediately I could tell that throughput was faster and I measured ~30-40% throughput difference between the old and new switch. It does run a little hotter than the old switch but not that I can't touch it and not bad for being fanless. I also ran benchmarks on my machine and overall throughput and CPU is less. Super easy to set up, just plug it in and Cat cables I'm using Cat 8) and you're rolling. I plan on buy another to replace a 2.5G in my main entertainment setup. Update: I replaced my 2.5G switch in my main entertainment setup and plugged in the Roku, AppleTV and MoCA, works great. Something weird, I could not get the Roku box working with the 2.5G switch, no matter how hard I tried. Worked first shot with this switch. Very happy with the performance and quality of the hardware.

I am in the process of upgrading to a switch with Port Mirroring for network monitoring, I decided to double-check the capabilities of this model first, just to be sure it would no longer meet my needs. It will not. This is just a basic switch, with no management capability. However, basic does not mean cheap, short-lived, or not useful! I've had this in place for several years, running 24x7. I have rebooted it 2 or 3 times, and each time the switch was not the culprit. This guy dutifully passes traffic day and night, quickly, silently, and without fault. I run a business out of my home. I have 4 Terabytes of data backed up locally and to the cloud. We also have multiple smart TV's in our home, two Media Center PC's, ROKU, and a couple of Internet Radio players. I have brought our Internet connection to its knees on multiple occasions. We have much much more internal network traffic than Internet traffic. I do computer repair and am imaging computers almost constantly. That gives you some idea about how much traffic is pumped through this. It has never missed a beat and is still going strong. TRENDnet makes a quality product! I do recommend you upgrade your ethernet cables to CAT6. I could be just me, with too much data, but I have had issues with CAT5E cables. That's not a fault of the switch. CAT6 cleared everything up immediately. Now that I think about it, I seem to recall finding a damaged cable in the upgrade. It may have been one cable that caused the trouble. But this was all about 5 or 6 years ago. Naturally, my upgraded switch will also be TRENDnet!

I brought this 2 months ago as an upgrade/replacement for my Airlink 8 port 1GB switch that was currently being used as my Home Network BackBone Switch (The Switch that all my other Network devices utimately go through before hitting my router). As providence would have it my old Airlink 8 port had started having intermitentant outages that was affecting my whole Home Network (No surprise since this was being used as my backbone)so I went ahead and deployed it a week earlier than I had planned (I was going to deploy it when I had finished running my 5 new CAT 5E drop expansion, Hence as to why I needed a switch with more than 8 ports)and all my intermintant outages went away. This is about the most straight forward device you could ever buy. No software to load, No configuration changes to be made, and best of all No assembly required. Just take out of the box, plug it in the wall of were you are going to permenatly place it, connect your compatible CAT 5E or CAT 6 Network Devices to the switch, and your done. The switch itself is made out of a sturdy metal alloy, has a LED side panel that tells you when your Network Device is connected & which port(If it's Amber your connected at 10/100mps and green your connected at 1gps), has vented sides (Fanless) for cooling, and also comes with screws if you are thinking of hanging the switch. As far as the exact rate of speeds are concerned see some of the other reviews on this device for that, for me it works great at the specified speeds. The absolute best thing about this device is the price. For the Quality, sturdy construction, and ease of use of this device I've seen other name brands goes as high as $200 Bones, 2 months ago I paid approximatily a $110, and now as of this writing it just around $80. I would highly recommend this device not only for home and small office but for you medium to big businesses as well.

Five stars are fairy dust, one star is therapy. Here’s the actual story. Hardwired the PS5, a mountain of streamers, Smart TV’s, and Eero pro 7 backhaul, this thing is running my home like Houston Mission Control. Four stars because while it’s flawless, I keep waiting for someone to knock on my door and ask why I’m running a server farm in my living room.

Great product and gets the job done. It does get a bit warm, though, and I ended up placing a heat sink (with a large thermal pad) on top of it, and the placed a spare computer case fan next to it to dissipate the heat.

As other reviewers have noticed, this switch runs cool and you just plug it in and it works. I like the different colored lights which let you know if each ethernet plug is running in high speed (green) or lower speed (yellow) mode. I spent the money to upgrade our network to gigabit capacity with this and with an ASUS gigabit wireless router between the switch and the cable modem, only to find that most of my computers are not gigabit capable without upgrading their network adapters. Sigh. But down the road I'm sure I'll be glad I did this. The one thing that is strange about this unit is the power cord and the power switch are on the front of the unit, while the ethernet jacks and cables and lights go in the back. And actually as I type this I'm still not sure which is the front or back. I'm sure this is designed for some professional "rack" of some sort, but for a home user, it seems like the lights and on/off should be on one side and the cables (power and ethernet) should be on the back. I'm sure another reviewer will be able to explain this but right now I've just got it on a shelf sideways since I can't figure out which is the front! ha ha. Overall, an excellent switch at a good price.

In mid-November I ordered one of these for a small-office client to replace a Linksys/Cisco SRW2008 which the office had outgrown. I chose the TEG-S16Dg based on the fact that the office didn't need a managed switch, its excellent price-per-port when compared to other unmanaged switches, and its consistently-positive reviews both here and elsewhere. In this office there are 10 users backed by a Real Server, with consistent high-bandwidth utilization (lots of large document and image manipulation and cataloging). Given that the switch is unmanaged, installation is indeed plug-and-play. My observations were that the performance was on-par with the Cisco, and there were no issues with either Auto or hard-coding speed and duplex on the server, network peripherals, and client machines. All in all, a great box at a great price. And then the problem started. One month after installation, after running 24x7 with no issues, the switch just stopped forwarding between certain ports. The links didn't actually go down and there were no other indications of a failure, but random devices just couldn't connect any longer to random other devices. Bounce the switch and all was well for about 10 minutes, and then the problem started again. I say "random" above because there didn't seem to be any consistency about what ports would be affected, except in the case of the server - in all cases, that port would stop forwarding (whichever port it happened to be - I did try a number of different ports) - but otherwise, random devices among all 16 ports would be affected (not even in a particular port bank, which is a common failure mode), and the next failure after reboot would affect different ports, which ports would remain affected until the next boot. An investigation of the server revealed no warnings or issues, and I concluded with changing both the NIC and the cables just for giggles. No effect - same problem. I order from Amazon primarily because of Prime, their wonderful return policy, and excellent support reps. I received a same-model replacement right away, installed it, sent the bad one back, and, after a couple weeks of solid performance, chalked it up to a one-off bad unit. No such luck. The exact same issue has now occurred with the new unit. I called TrendNet support. They claim no knowledge or reports of this issue, and given that the switch is unmanaged, there's no user-serviceable action that can be taken, such as a firmware upgrade. Googling also offers no reports of such a problem. Given that lack of reports, and given the unlikelihood that I've received two bad switches with identical failure modes, my conclusion is that there is a design flaw in the product that can't handle some event that's happening in this environment (though I can correlate no such event with these failures), which Trend missed in their design and QA. Since this is a consumer- or small-business oriented switch, it's unlikely that most customers will be pushing as much data through it as consistently as my client's environment, so perhaps that's a contributor. Otherwise, the only thing that stands out is Trend's "GREENnet" technology which reduces power utilization per port based primarily on cable length - perhaps there's something unusual in that technology that's having trouble either with my cables (all Cat6 500Mhz both for endpoints and for premise-punchdown with a maximum switch-to-client distance of 12 meters through two punchdowns, and short-run Cat6 500Mhz direct cabling to the server and other gear in the IDF closet itself), some other obscure item like MTU, a problem with heat (there is no dedicated AC in the IDF but the temperature remains constant at about 80F, which should be perfectly fine) or some combination of the above. Either way, given that everything in my architecture is designed correctly, was working perfectly with the SRW2008 24x7 for over a year, and, again, has worked perfectly with each of these Trend switches - until they die in this decidedly-odd fashion - I must conclude that there is a design flaw. While it's possible that I received a pair of bad switches (maybe there was an issue with one batch in manufacturing), TrendNet hasn't acknowledged such an issue. I'm certainly not going to waste any more time trying a third one of these. For now, I've placed the SRW2008 back in service, chained to a dumb 10/100 switch for a few low-bandwidth endpoints, until I decide on a replacement device. Given Trend's overall-excellent reputation and reviews, I'm willing to give them another chance, but only with a device with a different architecture. The main contender right now is their TEG-160WS, which is managed, does NOT have GREENnet, and is only about $50 more. I'll write an update if I do go with that unit. *2/13/12 Update: I ended up replacing the TEG-S16Dg with the latest "big brother" of the SRW2008, the Cisco Sg 200-18 18-PORT Gigabit . Despite the much higher price of admission, I wanted the management and monitoring capability (which is absurdly extensive given the target audience of small businesses) and the Cisco reliability to which I'm accustomed from my large datacenter implementations. For once, it seems like a manufacturer managed to integrate an acquisition - Linksys in this case - very well; while this product's origins were as a high-end Linksys and ended up as a low-end Cisco, the throughput, reliability (so far), configuration options, and other various bells and whistles make this switch a relative bargain. Note that it too offers the "green ethernet" option (I hadn't been aware of this initiative and how widespread it's become), but I've disabled it for now (+1 for highly-configurable managed switches); if the switch survives through the end of the month I'll turn it on to see what happens - I haven't yet discounted that there might be something unusual happening in the environment with an IP phone or desktop dumb switch that's causing the low-power / cable length detection to go wonky. *6/26/12 Update: Except for configuration-change-necessitated reboots, the Cisco has been running 24x7 since I installed it with zero issues. So, unless Trend has finally acknowledged and/or fixed their design flaw, skip this and buy the Cisco.

Since implementing this 10Gig switch into my 10Gig LAN it has worked great. Started 508MB pings at implementation and no loss. TRENDnet website states to only use cat6a, but specs for cat6 state it should work for under 150 feet. I went with cat6a since there is not a big difference in price and TRENDnet recommendation is to use cat6a. Gets a bit warm but expected for a five port 10Gig switch but it’s not bad. It is an American company and the switch is well built and has a good quality feel to it. Currently using three (all 10Gig connections) of the five ports. Works good so far.