UniFi Lite Switches - 8 & 16 Port
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- čas přidán 6. 10. 2020
- In this video we take a look at the new Lite switches from Ubiquiti, Inc.
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I Love that wall art of the Ethernet cable wires.
@Harry M Yup, and that's why I love it. I gotta get me one of those. :-D
Nice touch, it is even pinned to T568B
Where can we buy?! I've already purchased half of the t-shirts that he wears, why not start with artwork lol
It's even in T568B line up! I need that for when I forget the color code while making patch cables at home. lol
@@jonr3671 The art work is cool but If you are new to making patch cables, you should get a cable tester like the Sperry TT64202 that has both T568 pin outs printed on it.
Very nice Chris! I feel that these 2 new devices would go well the users who purchased either of the UDMs for a vanilla setup, even thought they have the advanced features. It's a device that somewhat matches the aesthetics of the UDM and would keep the theme going in other rooms of a home. I could my see my brother using the USW-Lite-8-PoE for more wired connectivity and adding an AP in another room to supplement the UDM, in your case the R2Dream2 (hehe), that he currently has. For myself, I would use the USW-Lite-8-PoE as a desktop switch for desktop wired needs, however I would lean more towards the rack mountable devices because why not! Of course this is all opinion but also food for thought. Thank you for the video and information!
I really like your videos. They are easy to understand and makes my journey with Unfi simple.
Perfect video Chris, thanks. Was looking forward to your recommendation re the 8-60W vs the 8 POE Lite. 👍
Ubiquiti should implement a power requirements tool on their site so it's easier to know which switch to buy.
i just want ubiquiti to come out with a 2.5gbps switch for about $109
I wish the 16 port had a SFP port. Still looking at getting 1. Thanks for posting
go get a propper switch instead of that flimsy unit
I have the 8 port version of this arriving today, and if it work out as expected I may end up with a few more. This will end up either serving my desk (I have a few too many things there) or my entertainment center. Each of these locations usually only needs one or two POE ports for my use case. (Phone and APs). I do have Cisco switches that I am moving from (3560 24 port POE) which are overkill for daily use at home.
Yaaaaaysss So glad to see them expanding their line of more affordable switch.
Great video, I would love to see an idle power draw comparison between the new lite switches and the older models.
The older 8 port US 60 is also only AF POE while the newer lite is AT POE so +1 for the Lite
Sounds better than it is. In reality, how many watts are you using on AT? Up to 30? Then you have 1 port left for usage. I'd rather have more watts available.
@@mediocreman2 Although 60Watts is low, at the price point, most competitors are the same or lower power budget.
Holy crap, it took me 12 minute to figure out you were wearing a sl1pg8r shirt! Nice!
Chris thanks for all your videos, you have given me the knowledge to learn and upgrade my home to UniFi as well as use that knowledge on my side hustle to install this technology for customers. The lite switch and flex switches are perfect for my home. I use the gen 2 16 port in my rack, but utilize these extra switches in bedrooms to give more wired connections. I picked up one of the 8 port lite switches and utilize the POE to power a G3 Bullet and G3 Pro camera. Works great!!
I got managed Netgear GS-305e and unmanaged GS305 for managing connections in my little studio apartment. They are plugged to my Edgerouter X. They should be good since I never fully load them and they look nice.
I have the switch lite 16. The max PoE budget is actually 45 W despite having a 60 W power supply. This is on their spec sheet as well as the management section within UniFi. It’s a great switch for home use. I’m very happy with it. I have two raspberry pi’s with PoE HATS, three G3 flex cameras, a cloud Key gen 2, as well as the LTE backup all using about 22 W (about half).
I am happy to see this as I am about to replace an older switch and was looking at the 16 PoE lite as an option as where the switch is does not have a Rack, but it does run 2 Raspberry Pi 3's an Access Point and 3 cameras. Sounds like I might just about get away with it.
@@EsotericArctos Are your using the Raspberry Pi PoE HATs? They will draw about 15w each if you do. I had to put mine back on regular power supplies despite owning two Switch Lite 16s.
I was in the market for an 8 port PoE switch and almost bought the old "hot-box" model. I've been using this new 8-port for about a month and absolutely love it.
It's a great option for powering the more high-power PoE equipment like the Pro APs if you have a small deployment. It's powering one Pro AP and a 5-port switch, being fully populated with non-PoE clients otherwise. Not a single issue since it's been deployed, even have a bonded connection to a 2-port NAS. It's a great switch for about $100.
Thanks for sharing!
I wished those switches and new Unifi WiFi 6 AC Lite supported PoE passive 24V so I could plug my ER-X device to power them. I also wished they refreshed EdgeSwitch models.
Hi Chris, do you have a video on unifi Mac filtering setup? I can’t find decent info on how to do this. All you’re other videos are a big help! Thx!
I like the smaller US-8-60, it fits a 10inch small patching rack (on a shelve) and looks great in there. This new one is even more a desktop switch, and I am not a fan for the plastic look en feel. Not bad, it depends for what and where you need this one.
Interesting. Thanks for the info. I am not too invested into Unifi but considering it.
Great vid - thanks! Can we get some info on temperature for the new Lite models please? Do they have a sensor, do they run hot, etc.?
For me I needed more ports but I did not want to add another power cord. I have a edge router poe so I picked up a us-8 so I did not loose a POE port but I gained 8 ports of non POE and have no extra power cable. Something else to think about that you did not mention. Also love your content it helped me set up my edge router when I first got it. Love my wifi with my AP-AC-pro meshed to a AP-AC lite (for my next door neighbor to have internet)
The US-8 is great. Very underrated.
Watching Crosstalk UniFi, before bed is like reading a bedtime story 🤣🤣🤣
having watched a lot of your videos i set up my system using unify access points with a raspberry pi as a controller , i stayed away from the switches because they are quite expensive , well here in the uk anyway , but have taken a lot of inspiration from you
But still **manages** to spell Unifi incorrectly 😉
@@Gepstra do i get a bonus point if i pretend that i care what you think?
@@familyplans3788 I don't think so.
@@Gepstra shame
It's interesting to see people prefer plastic cases over sturdy metal ones.
Yah I think the metal will disperse heat better, but maybe I'm mistaken. I'll take metal over plastic anyday
Ystebad VonSchlegel I have the plastic usg-flex in my garage and it is hot. as. hell. I worry about it.
Usually the price
In addition to potentially worse heat dispersion, I wonder about how the white plastic finish will hold up over time. I have one of the little 5 port jobbers and half expect it to yellow a bit over time. I'm not sure what it is with white plastics in general, but it seems like a lot of them just don't age well.
All that said, the 16 port lite is on my radar, as I need more ports than I currently have with my USW-8-150w with SFPs installed, and don't really need to go full rack mount for my home network. Decisions, decisions...
I agree, I think the old style 8 port is a nicer looking piece of kit, I’ve got one sat in my loft and it’s great
Some of those Netgear pro switches had nice magnetic feet that allowed you to just fling it in the rack and it stuck to the steel of the cabinet. Great.
Two comments on the comparison with others: The UniFi switch has a higher total PoE power output than the cheap switch. And I'm a bit surprised that you didn't choose a MikroTik switch to compare with - when I sometimes consider switching (pun not intended) away from UniFi, MikroTik seems to be the best option, as they are also a prosumer brand but are a bit cheaper than Ubiquiti.
Recently I saw many Mikrotik devices being replaced, as per their very short life span made very difficult to several schools and firms surfing the web with the provider that installed those Mikrotiks. Speaking the good housekeeper's speech: they are good enough for their very interesting price (compared to others') but doing that has its downsides... they are often built with poor compounds (look at the capacitors!!!).
Are you going to do a review on the new unifi talk phone flex and unifi access products?
What would be great Chris is during your reviews of PoE switches, would be to use a laser thermometer to give external temperatures of the devices. The older US-8-60W & US-8-150W run really hot to the touch. Have a standard PoE load like 2 WAP's and 2 phones to see how they handle it. The Lite 16 PoE looks great for my use case my office desk, currently have a fanless Cisco C3560CG-8PC-S which is a great switch, massive overkill for my use feature wise but I need more ports as it's full.
I find a lot of passively cooled PoE devices run quite hot. I would always recommend some kind of active cooling be installed to help cool any passively cooled PoE device, no matter what company it is from. That said, I have found the Unifi range does tend to run considerably warmer than similar Cisco switches. They seem to last the distance though and don't usually prematurely fail.
I'm using the 8-port lite switch on one side of my home office serving my NAS, powering the nanoHD for downstairs, and to power my Flex Mini which is on the other side of my office for my computer and printer.
Hi Chris! I would like to know if there is any difference in regards to the heat dissipation between these switches compared to the older ones. I live in Brazil and the weather here is very hot (39°C/102°F right now... Not even summer!!). It worries me if you think about using them in a home environment, where we don't want to have the noisy fans or a permanent air condition room only for that reason.
I am a great fan of your channel. Congratulations for all content you create!
Not sure if you found your answer, but I would suggest having some kind of active cooling in conditions like that of Brazil. Although the switches are not too bad, the Unifi's are fanless and they will tend to run hot in high ambient temperatures.
Thank you so much for going through the actual options in the control panel. I've been thinking about buying this over the rack mounted version because I only need a few PoE devices but wanted link aggregation to my main 48 port switch. Ubiquiti's webpage doesn't list aggregation as an option for this model in it's description, unlike they do for the rack mounted version. Other's who have gone over this device haven't talked about it, and you mentioned it so that's a like from me!
What about backplane throughput for these lite switches? Is this less then the Gen-2 can handle?
Chris, could your bignas be showing as a client due to pihole running on the NAS? Some sort of a DNS issue? Just curious since you were running pihole on your Synology NAS in it's video.
Nice video. Question, where did you get the picture of the ethernet cable in the background?
I have 8 port lite and 5 port lite switches. Initially when I adopted both switches were showing random users appearing and disappearing. In this stage I was using Synology router. As soon as I upgraded to UniFi USG, both switches starting showing correct users and since then never have had that problem.
Hey Chris, do you think the same lite version treatment will come to the USG? Like do you think there will be a USG lite too?
I read while in the forums a while ago that the lite series is not so capable with stp as the “silver” series is, has there been any upgrade to implement it fully?
hi thankyou for your videos, is it possible to time schedule vlan networks on the unifi switch, im using udmpro -us-8-50w
I wonder if they improve the cooling? I have the previous generation I have to run fans with! Otherwise I wouldn't be interested in them??
Hi Chris, any recommendation for dual isp set. Up for load balancing and fail over. can handle 2x 500mbps bandwidth
Called the lite switch but more power than the Gen 2 16port PoE Switch. Makes you wonder why this one is regarded as the lite
Do these support downlink trunking of vlans? The mini flex doesn't and I couldn't tell on this one.
Can you easily mount the switch with the ports facing downwards? The "original" metal 8 port version is not so easy to wall mount (as you noted in your presentation).
I’m about to start my home’s journey with Unifi. I have 2 WiFi 6 lites on the way, 2nd gen cloud key, UniFi Security Gateway and a UniFi Switch PoE 8 (150W).. the question is, should I stick to the 8 switch 150 or exchange it for the UniFi Switch Lite 16 PoE? I just don’t think I’ll ever max our the Lite 16 with what I plan to do... thoughts?
Hey Chris - it's interesting you should have seen some weird stuff going on with your Unifi Map and your NAS. I recently found on my Unify Map several iPhones and Hwawei devices connected directly to my USG !?! Completely bypassing the Switch 8 60w PoE. AND ... they kept reappearing even after unauthorising them. Even stranger ... they still showed on the map even hours after the guests had departed. I know you have friends in high places (lol) within Ubiquiti ... is there a bug? Are there Gremlins in their system?? Did I take a screen shot?!? Hmmm. BTW - I had massive issues when updating to v6xx - Thanks for the vid - I wthough I was going mad!!! Since downgraded back to 5.12.x?x. Cheers for all your vids. Brilliant. Richard from north Wales!!
Hi Chris, i am planning to install 3 g4 camera's , a g4 doorbell and the cloud key gen 2. The shop recommended the UISP EdgeSwitch 8 150W is it ok or do you recommend an other switch
The Ubiquiti stuff has grown on me. When I first started messing with it, I HATED the way the ecosystem was. Having a cloudkey or some other dedicated controller makes all the difference. I wish they had more rack mountable 8 port full poe switches, with ALL ports being PoE. Most of the NVRs I install are rack mountable, have their own PoE switch and fit perfectly on those smaller 18 inch deep racks. The main issue in some cases, I'm not able use an NVR with built in PoE since it needs to be in a location away from the PoE switches.
Is there a rack mount bracket for these lite switches?
I'm on the Unifi line except for security and routing. My NVR and Cameras are not on the protect system so I use the dumb POE switch for all my cameras since they're on a separate network. The dumb POE switches have a place in a network, you just need to find a home for them where you don't care about the central control.
The 16 port Lite switch seems ideal for my home setup. I need more than 8 ports. The PoE will power the access point. I can't have fans because it will be in my lounge. And I want to play around with the SDN software to separate out all the IoT stuff. I did look at TP-Link's Omada but there is no switch like this.
One thing I would like to know is: how much power is drawn at the outlet? I'm in the UK and electricity is expensive. Peak power usage of 60W when everything is in use is fine. But when we are sleeping I want as little power usage as possible, or else it starts to cost real money just to run it! Example: 60W 24/7 costs £15 per month to run in December 2022 in the UK. About the same as a Netflix subscription!
Why I like Unifi??? For the ease of managing it. Compared to managing my Netgear GS724Tv4, Unifi comes easy to understand (to me).
Also the central managing system (controller) makes work on your LAN way simpler than an non-central manages LAN system.
Even I (a professional taxi-diver with IT as a hobby with zero training on LAN management) was able to set up a full Unifi LAN with VLAN for my IoT stuff on a 500/500 fiber ISP line without a ISP supplied modem/router.
I love the design of these switches! It's better than the US-8-150W as design and price! The best as every time Chris!
P.S.: Monday delivered to me an UniFi AP (I know that is old but is powerful than my AC LR!)
Maybe I'm the only one, but I like the old metal design more than the new plastic fantastic ones.
@@Erik-pu5hy I like the shape of switch, for me is ideal for a home network. As you say metal cover is ideal for offices network.
Why is anyone concerned for the looks. If you are doing a good job you surely want the most robust and best cooled option - which for me means the metal case. Even if it's not 'sexy'. If your concerned for appearance, keep the switch hidden anyway!
@@Rosscoff2000 The lite switch is fanless, that was the main reason I went with it. I was replacing a 24port 1U that had a horrible fan for home use, and the Lite has everything needed for AP(s) a couple of Mini switches for the office and HTPC and sonos.
Cost was right, no big power adapter, no noise. Uptime 180 days and counting.
I like that these are Unifi central managed. However the 16 port unit quickly becomes underpowered if you add 8 POE devices when some of those are IR cams or downstream IW units with POE passthrough. I think 8 POE ports on the 16 port unit is fine. There just isn't enough power provided to run 8 POE devices unless they are each power sippers. It's a very intentional (and artificial) choice Ubiquiti made to cut the features (power) in order to drive you up to more expensive gear. Also, if the PS fails, it's internal on the 16 port unit. Good luck quickly replacing it.
I like the look of Netgear stuff (and older Ubiquiti gear too). I'll take metal any day over plastic. Metal does not yellow or crack, and metal conducts heat away better. I don't show off my switching gear to guests (uh, if you do then you have very unique guests) and the metal units are more compact in my home IT cabinet.
The new switches support POE+ at also in the lite-8 version while the us-8-60w was only poe af.
What is the maximum length of cat6 cable for POE to power an access point? I'd like to power a second Access point without buying another POE switch.
i would really like to see a 8 port multi gig switch (2,5gbps or 2,5/5gbps) from unifi. keep up the good work chris and greetings from germany
There might😉 be one in EA.
Hopefully they are coming, there's a L3 24 port rack mount EA switch that has 12 ports of 2.5 ($899) but they could be a while I'd think as these Lite's as still quite new. I know your not supposed to talk about EA products but they are all over Reddit and other sites and it's not like they restrict access to the EA program. I can see why they wouldn't a review of them on CZcams though.
@@henrikvtcodes what do you mean with that? right now, there is no model in EA. should there be on in the next weeks/months?
@@m0nji1234 there is, the UniFi-U6-S24-BETA
Make a photo copy of the bottom of the old switch to use as a template to mount it.
Good thinking!
I use that trick as well.
I just trace them with paper and a pencil if you’re gentle takes about 30 seconds
And to disassembly the new one of the wall seems difficult, maybe you risk braking the wall to get it out.
What sfp connectors do u recommend ?
sorry for the silly question... I'm really new to these. I'm planning to buy USW-Lite-8-PoE
for my home .... to connect to 4 (IP5M-B1186EW-28MM) amcrest brand cameras .... those cameras are normal POE, but unifi switch is POE+ ...... is it ok to connect POE cameras in POE+ port .....?
What is his Intro Music?
I've seen similar issues with UniFi Controller showing clients attached to the wrong device. This happened for me when, and only when, I had a switch (with clients) plugged into the 2nd port on an AC Pro, bridging the connection. This happened consistently until I removed the switch from the AC Pro. It looks like in this video you may be doing something similar with a couple access points daisy chained (not 100% sure). Perhaps there is a bug or this confuses UniFi.
Does the switch have its own web GUI? What if I am using the switch with UNVR. UNVR only has the 'Protect' application.
I like the new Lite devices.... oh a fun fact... size 10 head screws are the match to what UniFi ships with their equipment for mounting. 10$ on Amazon and I got 100 of the little screws... just in case ;)
This might be a dumb question but can I use a unifi device that is POE af on a POE at port?
I still prefer the old us-8-60w over the lite version of it. I find the sleek metal design sexier than white plastic look.
Great for frying eggs on top as well.
As much as I liked the old one, it was disgustingly bad in design. The thing ran so hot it could damn near burn you at times and on top of that, they were notorious for failure over time. Hopefully these have newer chipsets that run much cooler.
Additionally if you’re trying to run say an InWall with PoE passthru, you can’t do that on the old switch. It only supports 802.3af. New switch supports 802.3at.
Hey
As i read it, the unifi 16 lite has a 45w POE buget not 60 watt.
Yeah, I bought the Switch Lite 16 PoE at the beginning of August to replace a dumb Netgear 8 port switch. It works great but I can't use any of the managed features on the switch through Unifi because my Dream Machine requires firmware 1.7.2 to see the switch in the Unifi interface but only the Dream Machine firmware version 1.5.6 is in the repo....guess I'll just have to wait until the new firmware version is published in the repo.....
Can you do custom port profiles with this switch?
I have 3x of the 60w gen 1, would like to get the Lite instead cause they are wallmonuted in rooms. Badically a white switch looks better on a white wall
Plot thickens with the Netgear GS310TP. 8x POE+ and 2x SFP for $122 on Amazon. Looks like ubnt is loosing the bang for the buck edge they've had for years. All the newer releases seem to be downgrades of the older stuff either by taking out stuff or going with plastic construction.
Can this switch work with airmax , like nanostation , rocket M5 or ac
Is mac filtering available on that switch?
How hot do the new 8 and 16 port "lite" switches get, please? Want to use one in a closed cupboard, and have held off the older units due to the heat they generate. Thanks in advance.
I have an 8 port one and it has never gotten hot at all. I have all the ports used but only one of them is using PoE
I was reading on UI.com that the maximum temperature is -15 to 40° C (5 to 104° F) Is it possible that it can survive -20F at times?
My area is usually 10F plus during the winter unless there's an artic cold front.
Plan to install in my barn for cameras unheated or insulated
The power cable is also different. The lite has no external brick which I prefer.
Is this switch plug and play or do you have to have a UniFi controller for it or UDM?
I would like to know, how hot does the lite 8 feel, in comparison to the us-8-60w supplying the same load. I imagine it getting just as hot, but the heat trapped in the plastic case, so it feels cooler?
It does feel cooler to me. Also CPU usage is way down compared to the US-8-60W (which of course affects heat) so it must have a more efficient processor in it.
Does this switch allow IGMP snooping?
I just ordered the 8 port Lite and surprisingly, 3 years later it's still at 109 dollars. Not a bad deal at all.
I really like your videos. Have you considered changing your intro? Animating it maybe? Just a suggestion
It's one of the items on my long to-do list!
8:20 I think US-8-60W only support 802.3af but not 802.3at ??
This is an important difference that was incorrect in this video.
The Lite 8 has 802.3af/at, the 8-60W only has 802.3af.
My thoughts exactly. A unifi switch that doesn't do passive 24v wouldn't make sense
I was about to point this out.
Having had both, I can confirm the US-8-60W was only capable of PoE AF, not AT.
These switches require external power to operate, right?
I picked up an 8 port but it doesn't show up on my controller
Almost a year later, and the network map is still not showing correctly. :(
For desktop switches, I don't really see a problem with having half of the ports non-POE. But for rack mount switches, I don't get it. I spent a lot of time running structured cabling and need the flexibility of having all ports be POE. That's why I love the US-16-150w. The gen 2 switches look great, but I can't justify the price of the pro models (they're the only ones that have POE across all ports)
Does this switch have SNMP support?
is it possible to connect this switch to the sfp+ port of the Unifi dream machine pro?
I connect 4 ports to 4 switch ports on pfsense netgata 3100. Just make sure the link to the pfsens is truck (all).
I'm wondering if the more expensive Switch 16 POE is worth it for home usecompared to the 16 Lite
Unless you have fairly heavy POE at home, the Lite seems to be fine, I run mine with a LAN and UAP and two flex switches uplinking to a fiber router, and we have no issues.
I would like to change my current US-8-60W for 16 port lite to get more than 1 ethernet port to rooms in my house. It would leave some unpopulated, but would serve me better and look nicer on the wall.
I wish there is a switch with the same form factor that supports 10GB uplink and the rest can be 1GB. I have a 3 floors brick house (running cables is a nightmare), having a small form factor switch with 10GB uplink (SFP+ or even Cat6a) will make me run only one cable to each floor without any 1GB bottlenecks. The form factor is important because you don't want a huge rack mountable switch in each floor, with Unifi Lite form factor you can hide the switch in the ceiling or wherever you want. Ethernet cables are getting thicker and thicker, 5e
I really need to get one of these and a cloud key. IDK what I was thinking when I got an AP and an edge router lol. Or maybe I should get a dream machine...
My EdgeRouter at home is doing many things you'd need to muck around in config.gateway.json to accomplish on a USG, which is full of risks. Unfortunately I don't think I could switch mine out completely, but I might be able to set it up in front of, or behind the USG as a dedicated VPN gateway. Although if I'm going to the trouble of taking that off the primary router, I might as well virtualize it maybe... 🤔
At work I have a USG Pro... with a lot of extra load-balancer groups, and policy-based routes in config.gateway.json. It makes me nervous, we rarely update that because doing so requires renaming the config.gateway.json on the controller temporarily, force-reprovisioning, update, move config.gateway.json back, force-reprovision, and then sometimes a reboot for good measure... and oh ya, most of our network grinds to a halt whilst this is going on. It's burned us a few times now when it didn't come back: going into provision-loops and taking out the entire network with it; none of the devices could talk to the controller, or the controller to the internet; total failure of intra-VLAN routing... you name it, we've had it happen. But I can't get budget to replace it, it'll probably be at least 3 more years before they'll let me.
Used within its limitations I'm sure the USG is great, but you'll run into them quickly, the controller is still lacking very basic features for a so-called enterprise routing platform, and taking matters into your own hands is highly unstable in my experience. Best avoided if you like VPNs, PBR, more than 2 WAN links, multiple WAN IPs per link, port forwarding to anything but your first WAN link, more control over your load-balancing so some VLANs will use different WANs as their primary but still failover to others if they go down, etc etc etc ad nauseum. If it's not here now, I have to assume by now they aren't planning to bring any of it. Which is inexcusable in my opinion.
Can you tell if these UniFi Lite switches handle VLANs as do the non-Lite switches? I mean the UniFi USW Flex Mini does not deal with switchport profiles. Do those Lite switches support switchport profiles?
It supposes vlan if you config in uck g2 plus and assign each port.
Hello Chris! I'm about to move within the next 5 months and thinking of upgrading my network in my new home. This seem like a nice solution, however I do not have any experience with Ubqt. From what I understand I will have to have other UniFi devices on the network that manages this? Can you please let me know what else devices I need in order to be up and running?
Thank you!
You can install the Unifi controller on a PC or purchase a cloud key and run it from the cloudkey to manage your network. The controller software is free to download and use. If you are not needing to manage the network, you can plug it in and use it as a non-managed switch, but it is a little expensive for that (I initially set mine up dumb, because my controller did not support the newer and I had other "move in" fish to fry). I updated my controller and the new version found all my switches and I adopted them all and had full management in a few minutes.
I currently have a single UAP, 16 port lite switch and two 4 port mini-switches powered by Poe. All running on a controlling running on my ancient macbook.
Chris, how is the cooling with these? I have a US‑8‑60W which is passive cooling and the case gets rather hot to the touch.
We had temperature issues with those switches as well. We figured out that you have to wall mount them. Either with the ports facing up or sideways. Temperatures dropped about 10 to 15 °C compared to a horizontal position. Now the top covers never get warmer than 40 °C.
this is a killer question. Do the new Lite switches have Fans for cooling, do they have Temp Monitor sensors and do they run with 40+degC chassis temps like a 8-150 does? Be really great to get some info on this please! A lot of people have temp concerns or don't need a heater on their desk.
@@derasnan no fans
I have the 16 port Lite switch, and it runs significantly cooler to the touch than either of the other two older UniFi switches that Chris mentioned (I have all 3). And I am using PoE on 7 of the 8 PoE ports, using a total of about 32 Watts. Thus far, I am very happy with it.
Jeff Luongo what’s the Poe devices
As nearby any Unifi device gets .. how to say ? ... HOT AS HELL.... what about building a flimsy palstics case... dunno.. maybe that was for real the best idea? i guess its on pricing since included hardware should not have changed significantly... optics is a matter of taste, of course. Thank u Chris for another verry nice video
btw this Netgear u showed is "SmartManaged" .. which means nothing but a mess (a pain in the ass as u use to say)
The Lite 16 switch does not run hot.
@@gilbatzri ty 4 feedback ! :D
I bought a few of those Netgear switches. If you don't want to manage vlans, they are ok, but if you want to do any layer 2 stuff, the web interface is SUPER slow and frustrating...
I by far prefer the looks of the old metal cased one and I'm not sure I would trust that flimsy plastic mount either.
Doesn't the old USW-8-60W only do 802.11af and not 802.11at? That would be a reason to go for the new one.
I saw reviews that the older silver models get exceeding hot when PoE is enabled.
They get got. But don't fail. They seem to be built hot.
The way a switch looks is not usually in my mind when wanting to buy a switch. Sure, Unifi can be managed remotely, but with VPN connectivity, which most companies will use even in 2020 when this video was released, the remote management is not a big deal. Central management is nice to have, but if you know the IP address of the switches, not a big deal.
The main thing here is to note that ALL of the switches in the same price point were advertised with a lower PoE power budget than 60Watt, with the exception of TP Link, which was only advertised as 63Watt anyway. The Cisco had only 45Watt and the Netgear advertised as 55Watt. In the price point, that makes Unifi a compelling option still.