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▲ alias_neo an hour ago

It really depends on what you need from it; a cheap L2 switch will do the job, but frankly, you can get a Ubiquti Flex Mini with 5x1Gb ports for £35, I have a bunch of them around the house, and they're semi-managed so I can do VLANs on them and power them over PoE; since I'm already running Unifi, don't see the point cheaping out on switches.

I also have a bunch of EdgeMAX because I use the L3 features, they were more expensive, and that range is sadly now discontinued, but the Unifi equipment have all been workhorses, and the only think I've ever had fail in the past decade was an EdgeRouter Lite, the power circuitry failed after some dodgy mains voltage issues in my previous home.

▲rootusrootus 30 minutes ago | parent [-]

> Ubiquti Flex Mini

These are handy but I've never had one successfully be adopted by Unifi. No idea why. And since they're basic enough that they have no ssh command line access, there are limits on what you can do to debug them.

For my use case, though, powered by PoE and unmanaged is good enough.