 Tom here from Warren systems and Unify has sent me a Unify switch 16 PoE light for review I get to keep it So fold this closure up front and I really do like this switch not because it was sent to me But because it answers a question and that question is what's a good budget-friendly PoE manage switch for my home Now provided you first also like the Unify ecosystem and you're fine with running a separate controller or not logging Individually into each device on the network. This is a pretty good answer at a MSRP price of $199 I think this is a perfect scenario and we'll lab this out And I'll leave a timestamp to the lab part at the end where I show a good use case for this particular switch But there's a lot of home users that just have a couple Wi-Fi devices and need something easy without a handful of injectors This is a nice clean setup a couple warnings though is it does only have a 45 watt power budget So that is the one thing you get for $199 is only 45 watts as opposed to some of the other ones that can handle more devices And also all 16 ports here to stand so that up front are our gigabit But are not PoE only eight of the 16 are PoE But that's more than enough because with a 45 watt max power You're not going to probably want to plug in all 16 But before we jump into this review if you can click the like button and first feel like to learn more about me My company head over to Lawrence systems calm if you like to hire short project There's a hires button right at the top if you like to help keep this channel sponsor-free and thank you to everyone who already has There is a join button here for YouTube and a patreon page. 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Well, randomly So check back frequently and finally our forums forums dot Lawrence systems comm is where you can have a more in-depth discussion About this video and other tech topics you've seen on this channel now back to our content And we'll start right here at the page for a unify where you can buy this direct and they have an MSRP of 199 as of September 21st 2020 And this like I said is pretty reasonable in terms of pricing now It does as I stated only have a 45 watt power budget that means cumulatively across the eight POE ports It has the max wattage is gonna be 45 watts Managing configured by the unified network controller as I stated you have to use a unified controller to control This does not have a management page itself but it is still a fully managed layer to switch and you know Unify is pretty easy to set up and looking at the simplicity of it. We'll cover it in a little bit more detail We only have one port in the back and the 16 ports in the front. There's really not much else But something I really liked that they did here was made it easy to mount So you don't initially see a mount But then you have this little device here and it's clever the way they did this so this can be done either way It's just a little like a edge essentially that is going to slip in so you stick this on The wall, so when you stick this on the wall, it's just going to slide in like this right to the switch So once you have this mounted no fiddling with little offset screws or holes It'll go ahead and mount now Getting it out you have to put a little effort to get it out kind of snaps in but also has these little connectors on there And yes, it goes in either way So this is actually a really simplistic way in my opinion to mount It's probably easier with its got screws in it to pull it back out But from a simplicity standpoint being able to mount this either way whether you want the ports facing up ports facing down You just have the one power in the back And like I said, this is if you want to wall mount it but a lot of home users are just going to maybe have it sitting there I mean, there's no rack ears There's no anything else and as I said 16 ports in the front one blue light and one reset button There is no like USB or Other ways to connect into this. It's just that also no SFP But back to that original use case was home users. Well, I think it works rather well for that and that's a pretty good scenario So the next thing I wanted to do and well, I've covered everything that comes in a box You get a power cord this and some screws That's it for the box. I have the box over there I don't really think much about the box other than it was well packaged and seems quite, you know Well put together what I do like though is what is in the box and these things and that's all you really need Doesn't come with the cables other than the power cord But at least they do give you some wall anchors and a couple of the right side screws because this is counter sunk So don't just try to use your own screws unless they fit into the counter sinks of the little wall adapter But let's turn it on. That's where it gets more interesting and talk about a lab slash use case scenario for this particular device All right for this setup. I have a couple different devices I have two nanos and like I said, we're playing out kind of a home user scenario And I really think the nanos are a great device because the number of devices they support is not as much as the HD That question comes out. Should I get an HD or a nano if you're a home user? You're probably not gonna have that many devices at your house. So nanos are perfectly fine So we'll say there's two of them to cover each area of the house But then one more because you're home office and I like these in walls This is one of the in wall units now. This is both a wide of my device and a four port switch So this is kind of a cool setup in terms of you know or common I should say in some of the home users because maybe your office you want a couple extra managed ports in there So we want also dedicated Wi-Fi because as much as you want to saturate the house of Wi-Fi Well, different areas of the house may not have the perfect Wi-Fi Maybe your office is further away and having the device line a site to your older devices because you've mounted the wall Higher you get the idea and wall is a great choice for that And of course I put a phone on here too because if you're working from home, we have a phone on here So now we've got one two three four POE devices and let's take a look at that So here's the in wall to UAP nanos and this device right here So here's our UAP light and we're spending our 15.8 watts of our 45 watt power budget So you can see that it's got the potential to have the higher power budget But it's just not likely you're gonna use it. So I seem to complain to a lot of people going Well, it's just too underpowered and I didn't really think that not for the $1.99 price tag on it I'm not saying it is the absolute bearer Bones cheapest switch available. It's a day that has POE I'm saying it's a good compliment to the unified lineup where you can have it all in the dashboard here and have a budget-friendly switch So my testing with it I've been using it for about a week and it hasn't had any issues And I have things sitting on top of it right now It really is quiet and not getting too warm one of the other things about this is it is a fanless design And that being low wattage isn't really a big deal I would say warm to the touch after I have a handful of devices plugged in for a while on it, but nothing Not hot so it's something certainly that could sit in your closet But even if you do have it in the same room as you without any fans and well any of the devices here Especially this one you're talking about a really quiet setup as well Which I think is kind of important and a lot of home users because they may not have the convenience of having a rack in the closet with You know thermal control unless you're one of the advanced people that may have something like that even in your house Which is awesome, but the average person are probably the more common uses for this is not going to have that and if you have a rack You're probably buying rack mount equipment, but my overall review of it. I like the product I think it's nice nice compliment to the unified Line-up and a budget-friendly one at that so it will run all these devices fine It'll run the phone because it's standard a o 2 dot 3 at PoE plus compliant So it's compatible with a lot of different devices if you have maybe some cameras provided They're not a really high power draw it would work with those as well So I'll leave links to the unified site and if I can find these in Amazon I'll leave a link to that too. 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