D-Link 16-Port 10/100 Unmanaged Desktop or Rackmount Switch (DSS-16+)

Good and more useful

I bought this to replace an identical unit that passed away in its sleep after running 24/7 in my home for the past 20 years. It does what I want, which is to distribute 10/100 through my home backbone reliably. I have no reason not to believe this one won't last me for the next 20 years.

I actually purchased this by accident because I was looking for a gbit switch. Either way I am using it, I just have this switch feeding all the IPMI, Accessories and fail over LAN NIC's. It works like a champ feeding my rack. I used another D-Link 7 port rack to feed the main data ports of my servers though because this is only 10/100 instead of 10/100/1000 (gbit).

Working nice, thanks.

Very good

I bought this expecting to get old stock new in box, since it's an old model. However, it appears to have been built no earlier than 2012. The link lights and ports are laid out a bit differently than in the picture. The new link light grid is more readable than the old horizontal lights. The product comes with spacer brackets to allow it to be rack mounted, so if you have an equipment rack and need a small switch, don't overlook this "desktop" model. The ports are all autosense and will automatically determine if a connection is an uplink. In other words, for a small home network you can just plug your cables in and not worry about topology. I bought this switch to replace a Cisco 150 Mbps powerline switch. The powerline switch rarely achieved more than 8 Mbps in practice, and added noticeable latency, making it unsuitable for gaming. I haven't noticed latency with the new switch. So far I am very satisfied with it. If your network is growing and you can live with 100Mbps, this switch is an excellent value.