Cheap 8 * 2.5Gbit Managed Switches

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das1996

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Picked up 2 sodola SL-SWTGW218AS managed switches on amazon. One has the blue background, other has white/grey background.

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The one with the blue background was delivered a earlier this week, the white background yesterday. Both ordered on 11/23.

The white background one had a newer fw initially, something from september, while the blue one had a june fw originally. Functionally they appear the same, but this is such an oddity.
 

tamuin

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I haven't seen this mentioned on any of the threads discussing the inexpensive 2.5G switches, but Amazon is selling the XikeStor version right now for $80 (on black friday it was $67). The reason I mention it is because I found this purely by chance, it does not seem to come up as a search result (I think Amazon's search is almost useless), also prime shipping is a bit quicker than normal aliexpress delivery times.

 

DaveLTX

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I haven't seen this mentioned on any of the threads discussing the inexpensive 2.5G switches, but Amazon is selling the XikeStor version right now for $80 (on black friday it was $67). The reason I mention it is because I found this purely by chance, it does not seem to come up as a search result (I think Amazon's search is almost useless), also prime shipping is a bit quicker than normal aliexpress delivery times.

Hasivo also has the S1100 now which does management AND POE for 60usd in china.
Absolute freaking steal
 

DaveLTX

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I am not seeing that, can you post a link?
Sure, if you can actually access it. As I said, IN china

There's a review in chinese here
 

ms264556

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Sure, if you can actually access it. As I said, IN china

There's a review in chinese here
The 10GBaseT versions of these are on AliExpress (at least for NZ buyers). I got an S1100WP-8GT-1XGT-SE for $112 during singles week, but it's currently $144 after taxes and delivery.

So it seems the markup for foreign buyers is ~100%.
 

pvelati

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Hello again, I just updated to version 1.9, starting from version 0.6
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I didn't see any significant change. Probably something under the hood? for sure they changed the +/- signs on the left menu.
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If you are interested, I've attached the firmware to this post.

Notes:
  • for flashing I had to be on VLAN 1, otherwise when you enter "upgrade mode" you lose connectivity to the page
  • after the upgrade I lost all settings, and restoring using a backup of the configuration did not work. I had to reconfigure everything from scratch

EDIT:
This juicy change appeared
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epierre

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Hello, seems ZX-SWTGW218AS and the like have same software than Mokerlink...

Have you managed to do LACP ? seems no firmware around for Mokerlink and trunk as LACP is not working with Synology
 

pvelati

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Hello, seems ZX-SWTGW218AS and the like have same software than Mokerlink...

Have you managed to do LACP ? seems no firmware around for Mokerlink and trunk as LACP is not working with Synology
no I'm not using LACP, I only tested the static LAG and is working fine
 

epierre

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I've had a firmware after contacting the support for dynamic LACP, but resulting performance are poorer than on my netgear 1G dynamic LACP switch...
 
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tamuin

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I believe the SKS1200 line is the unmanaged (or as some of the aliexpress listing say 'unmanageable') switches and the SKS3200 is the web managed switches, SKS7300 are L2 and SKS8300 are L3.
 
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DaveLTX

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I believe the SKS1200 line is the unmanaged (or as some of the aliexpress listing say 'unmanageable') switches and the SKS3200 is the web managed switches, SKS7300 are L2 and SKS8300 are L3.
Only a short matter of time before Seeker or Hasivo makes a web managed model of it, i personally dont need it
 

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