D-Link 52-Port Gigabit Smart Switch

Really needed to upgrade my home network and getting this switch was a great choice for me. The only thing I wish was that the vendor did a test before selling this item. One of the ports isn’t working (notice port 17) and I can hear a screw inside when I move the switch around. Otherwise it’s a good switch, fast and has been running since it came. The management application has a few quirks (isn’t the best UI), but it gets the job done and it’s very straight forward.

Pros

– Fast transfer/performance
– Indicators are a blessing coming from my previous router
– Web management
– Not a hot unit + comes with a few power saving features
– Do the research, there is a lot more great features, but these are things I thought I would highlight

Cons

– 1 port didn’t work
– screw was loose (inside) when the item arrived

This switch works a hell of a lot better than I expected. I’m using up all 10 ports. Have not tried the SFP ports yet, but plan on getting a second switch to stack using a direct connect cable.

My furthest connection is approximately 100ft and with gigabit fiber internet.. out of a theoretical 950mbps “real world ” speed.. the device speed tests at a range of 940 to 950mbps. This is with each port (minus one) feeding a device. Most connection I have ran Cat6 24awg, but there are a couple using the existing Cat5e 26awg.

This is a great managed switch for an advanced home user or small business. VLANs work great. Just save yourself a support call and remember you must explicitly save the running configuration to flash before rebooting/power cycling the switch. Changes take effect immediately (running config), but are not saved to NVRAM until the save function is selected.

Bought this for a home lab. While I’m not a huge fan of the GUI to set it up, the amount of features supported by this switch compared to others I found at this price range is very impressive. Not much else to say – it looks and feels like a quality product, and works as you would expect.

Documentation is lacking for layer 3 functionality, which I assume is a relatively recent addition to the firmware for this product. For my purposes this is a non-issue, but for others I suspect it could be problematic.

Works well. Highly recommend it. Legit

I have been using this in my network for over 1 and a half years. if you are a networking student this is a great switch to use before you go to a Cisco switch. the UI is not the most user-friendly but it is way better than cisco. this is a layer 2 switch with layer 3 blocking features. it will autoconfigure out of the box to a 10.0.0.1/8 network but this is easy to change via the online interface. the sfp ports are a breeze to set up and I currently have a cisco 3750 switch hooked up to it via one of these ports. the Dlink and Cisco switches will have a duplex mismatch to start with but if you leave the sfp duplex setting to auto they will self negotiate.

These are obviously used. They have an asset tag for a telecom agency in Brazil. There is a “Security Seal”, but when you look at it, you can tell they put a clean security seal over a broken one. This is not a new device. Not only is it fraudulently being sold as new, but the seller is going out of their way to make it look new when it clearly is not.

As a managed switch, this device is of unknown lineage and has the potential to infect your network with malware, intercept your data and send it to a 3rd party, or who knows what else.

I’m returning this.

Run away from this listing. Do not risk the security of your network on this device.