TP-Link TL-SF1008D 8-Port Fast Ethernet/Network/Lan Switch (10/100Mbps, Auto Speed and Duplex Adjustment, Plug and Play, Auto MDI/MDIX, Fanless) White

Superb kit. Worked first time without any setting at all. VERY quickly delivered by Kikatek. Some stuff the description leaves out: There's an external powersupply with this and it needs to be plugged in to function. There are eight Ethernet RJ45 sockets. ONE of which acts as an input (ie, 'the internet' coming from your router or HomeHub) the other SEVEN of which allow bits of gear to be hardwired to this input. (ie, It's not one 'in' and eight 'outs'). Box is very small and compact. Absolutely silent. I ran out of Ethernet ports for my AV gear on my HomeHub 5 (which I had to have in a cupboard giving rubbish WiFi). This TP box fixed all that. Here's how I'm using it: BT HomeHub 5 now in optimum position in the dining room, WiFi reaching the whole house. Ethernet cable runs from HomeHub socket 1 to my Mac close-by. Sorted. A second ethernet cable runs from HomeHub's socket 2 under the floorboards across the house to the media room and this TP-Link 8-Port box. This now gives me SEVEN hard-wired ready to go Ethernet ports in amongst my AV gear pile: So that's a hard-wired Apple TV, YouView Box, BluRay player, Smart Sony TV, Pioneer AirPlay Amp, PlayStation 4 and one spare ;) ZERO gear using shonky WiFi connection – all gear exposed to BT Infinity running at top speed. Magic and an absolute bargain for around £11!

First ever review on here and I have been an Amazon customer for years, but this was so quick and painless to set up, it definitely deserves a recommendation. I'll keep things as simple as possible as even a technophobe should not be put off buying and setting this up.I bought the 8-Port version as I have a few devices in my study that have no wireless capabilities, and I wanted to ensure they were all connected to my home network. I have one long main Ethernet (Network) cable running from my router/hub (Virgin Media) in the livingroom, and rather than having multiple long cables running from this hub to my study, I thought it best to buy one of these to connect the main Ethernet cable to instead. Then I could simply have many smaller cables connecting to this box as required.That was the plan, and it went as smoothly as possible. I just simply connected the 8-port box to the mains using the plug/adaptor provided and then placed the main Ethernet cable running from my livingroom into the first port on this box (although any port would do - it shouldn't matter). Then I simply connected several other smaller cables from this box to my main computer, blu-ray player, Raspberry Pi, and Smart TV that are in my study. Once the green lights on the box started flashing for each port, I knew they were up-and-running. A quick check of each device ensured Internet connectivity. No fuss, no faffing about with ip addresses, no changing of settings, just true 'plug-n-play'.So if you are looking to extend the wired part of your home network, I wholeheartedly would recommend this. At an excellent sub-£10 price tag, I only wish I had bought one long before now!(Please also note that the instructions point out 16-port version can be wall mounted, however the ones with fewer ports cannot - this wasn't an issue for me as I have it tucked away under my desk, but it might be relevant for others who prefer easier access).Hope this helps!

The description says "plug and play" - but there's one problem - it's not a standard UK plug! It's a European plug - so you have to buy an adapter before you can "plug and play".(Unofficially - you "can" override the earth pin - allowing you to use the supplied plug without an adapter.)Also - it is not supplied with an rj45 network cable to connect the switch to your router. So again, before you plug and play - you've also got to buy a network cable or find one.BUT... after those two little niggles it is a great little switch. You plug one cable from your router to the switch - this leaves 7 ports free for you to play with. There is nothing to configure, it just works. "Plug and play" ;-)

I bought one of these because I have several components that plug into my TV that can be connected to the internet/home network (Freesat box - for iPlayer, media streamer - to share media over my network and blu-ray player too). Since I only have one potential Ethernet cable from my router, I obviously needed an Ethernet switch to make it possible to hook all three up.As one would expect of an Ethernet switch, it's a connect-the-wires-and-power-up jobby. It works just fine, doesn't run too hot and auto-detects whether to run at 10 or 100mbps (although I'll be amazed if anyone is running at 10mbps these days).People ought to bear in mind that you should really only use Ethernet switches for devices that don't all simultaneously need lots of bandwidth when connecting to other devices on your network. Every device plugged in to your switch has to share a total of 100mbps of bandwidth because they all use the same common cable to hook up to your router (or wherever else it goes). In my case, although my media streamer can be fairly intensive (up to 50mbps), generally iPlayer is no greater than 2mbps and the blu-ray player only uses the link to download firmware updates, so even if I were using all three at the same time, they wouldn't max out the connection. As an example, I would never connect a NAS server to a switch: the whole point of network storage is that it needs all the bandwidth it can get and could potentially have several demands from different computers at the same time. One should try and plug in bandwidth-hungry devices as high up the network as possible (i.e. as close to your router as possible). This effect would be reduced if you use a gigabit Ethernet network (because there's 10x more bandwidth available).Also, these switches can be daisy-chained. In theory, the number you can daisy chain is limitless, but in practice you'll see higher latencies and eventually signal degradation. (Although this effect will occur well beyond the needs of the typical home user.)Overall it's a solid purchase. I went for the 8-port switch over the 4-port because the price difference was about a pound and the extra ports offer me more expandability in the future.

I bought the switch because I was tired of constantly plugging and un-plugging my ethernet cable into different devices which comes from my powerline adapter (Does work with powerline/powerplug network adapters). Straight out of the box no need for any complicated setup just plug the power adapter into the switch and that's it and after that just plug your devices into the back of the switch and of course your network backbone (powerline or straight from your router ethernet cable. I currently have 5 devices plugged into switch going through my powerline adapter, this switch still works great under bandwidth usage from multiple devices but of course it can be slow due to the fact it's all going through one physical link, nothing to do with the switch. Overall this product is a neat little piece of kit: small, easy to setup and good value.

Purchased this to extend te amount of ports i could use on my router, connected as follows,1 x rj45 from switch to router,1 x rj45 from pc to switch,no intenet connectivity, unable to ping out to anything, checked IP address and mac addres tables on router and no pc listed.Plugged pc direct into router and all ok.Swapped out cable from switch to router and fro pc to switch, tested again, nothing working.Seems like this switch doesn't work properly, maybe there are bad batches or it's just a bad switch.I went for the cheapest and guess this is a lesson learned.

first of all i would like to thank amazon, the first one i ordered was sent to me next day and i was not in so the courier left a card saying he had left it at my neigbours, however it said number 10 a bit tricky when the houses only go up to number 7, after contacting amazon they sent me another one free of charge which i was very pleased about.The product itself is very good, i have two of theses and they do what they say on the box, never had any issues with my other one sits there blinking away doing its stuff, its nice and small to, plus you cant really go wrong with TP Link products and for less than £8 its good value.

I purchased this product to better organize my network. I currently had my multiple games consoles connecting to my hub through wifi. With my Youview box using one plug adaptor directly connected to the Virgin router. But my devices connected via wifi would randomly lose connection due to their distance from the router. Not any more though. This inexpensive little box can organize and improve all my connections. I can now stream in glorious HD, then have an intense game session online, or stream movies through Netflix in glorious HD! This device has power saving abilities as well by turning off any unused ethernet ports and managing the power through the ones that are in use.A speed test, (from the site speedtest.net), showed an 8MB speed on my PC through wifi, but when i connected the cable, it had risen to 23MB.The best £10 i ever spent.

Perfecto. Ideal para trasformar una unica toma de red en 7 dispositivos a conectar en mi aso tv. Ps5 y decodificador satélite. Pequeño y bonito esteticamente

Remplit parfaitement son job comme tout les produits de la marque. Bonne qualité et facile à installé

Escrevo a analise depois de quase 3 anos porque não lembrei. Produto usado para interligar câmeras ip a um DVR. Ligado 24/h dia, não tenho do que reclamar. Produto simples, barato mas que cumpre a sua função.

Let op is maar tot 100mpbs. Voor mijn gebruik voldoende snel. Heb ook maar een 100mbit abbonement. Werkt als het zou moeten degelijk apparaat.

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