Second best is the troubleshooting tools, and that was a new one to me (as it's only available on their newer gear). I expected this though, as even their prior (non cloud-managed) hardware was similarly capable. Roaming between 3 units while on VOIP/webex/zoom is completely seamless, no drops or hitches in video/audio, nothing to indicate you've reassociated with a new AP. Their best feature imo is their roaming implementation - cisco/meraki, ruckus, unifi, netgear, aruba cambium, I've never had better AP-to-AP handoff, and only one matched them (again, just my experience). They really come into their own though when you pair them with their APs (not sure I'd still have sprung for them with the cost if I'd no need for access points). To the part originally asked about first (the switches) - rock solid, online upgrades (PoE remains active), stellar remote troubleshooting tools built in (traceroute, ARP table, PCAP, client latency tests, and so on), and 0 issues in 14 months. Anyway, bit the bullet and bought them for home afterwards, and never looked back.
I was going to go unifi despite my reservations, but between the time I placed my order and the time they shipped, the last straw came through in the form of their removal of multi-site support from their system (a 'bug'. I've used their HW at work for years, but hadn't ever used their cloud enabled stuff. Idk if anyone is still looking at these, but figured I'd throw my. But for me that is a point deduction because their standalone deployment firmware is now about 2 years outdated. If you need newer firmware, you have to use their cloud management tools which is free. One thing I need to mention which blocked me from picking it besides price was that their firmware is not updated for standalone deployment. However because I am happy with XS1930-12HP, there's not much motivation.īTW I did talk to EnGenius sales representation for information. I don't have the money and time to do a comparison on EnGenius options right now. It runs at a much quieter noise level, and temperature is about 5 to 10 degree C lower at similar load. The UI is designed somewhat weirdly (and probably buggy in presentation), but is feature complete and generally easy to understand.Īnd this one is particularly quiet and cool, when compared to Netgear MX510TXUP which I looked into before. When I figured that out, it was a quite smooth experience. There was some problem with the configuration of the switch due to poor OOBE wizard design (if I choose to use VLAN, it assigns VLAN 1 on all ports as tagged which causes trouble). I pulled trigger on that and am quite happy with it right now. And it was cheaper by about $150 when I made the purchase. When compared to EnGenius, Zyxel's option has 2 non-PoE RJ45 ports (instead of 2 SFP+ out of a total 4) and in my usage I do need them, which saves me the trouble to add SFP+ RJ45 modules. My requirement can be fulfilled by 802.3at and 2.5GbE, but I don't think it would hurt to be a bit future proof (wallet hurts, but the price difference is not so much when 2.5GbE is over $600 while this full 10GbE is $1200).Īs a general update, I looked into options with the same Realtek RTL9313 platform and found that Zyxel has a model XS1930-12HP. There's a bunch of things not as smooth but does what is promised after all.Īs of why I am looking at them, is mainly because my house has a very limited space for networking hub so I cannot use normal rack mountable equipment. I don't know what's the reason behind, but generally speaking my experience is good.
In the past I've tried EnGenius APs, and I find that they are very much the same hardware as Netgear but with EnGenius software. Anybody had experiences or reviews about them? I can find only so few mentions of these, and actually overall there's not a lot of information about EnGenius switches. Or its 2.5GbE sibling: ECS2512FP Cloud Managed 8-Port 240W PoE++ Multi-Gigabit 2.5 Gb Switch w/ 4 SFP+ Uplink Ports I am looking at things like EnGenius ECS5512FP: Cloud Managed 8-Port 10 Gigabit PoE++ Switch with 4 SFP+ Ports
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