MikroTik CRS305-1G-4S+in Network Switch Managed Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000) Ethernet Power (PoE) White

The MikroTik 5-Port Desktop Switch is a compact yet highly effective addition to any network setup, especially when integrated into a Ubiquiti network environment. Despite its small size, this switch offers reliable performance with five Gigabit Ethernet ports, ensuring fast and efficient data transfer for connected devices. Its straightforward design makes it easy to deploy in various settings, from home offices to small businesses. The switch operates quietly and delivers stable connectivity, complementing Ubiquiti's robust network equipment seamlessly. While it lacks advanced features like VLAN support or PoE, it serves its purpose well by providing reliable network expansion with minimal fuss. For users already invested in a Ubiquiti ecosystem, the MikroTik switch is a practical and cost-effective choice for expanding network ports.

First off, if you are looking for a router: look elsewhere. While this can run routerOS, consider it an in-extremis stopgap solution. The CPU on this thing is a little single core clocked at 800mhz. for a small 100M router, it would be fine, but you will redline it and get well below 1G speeds. If your actual router gets struck by lightning and blows up, this will make do in a pinch, but its not what it's designed for.As a switch however, this thing is fantastic, and the cpu is more than plenty to give you a management interface to configure all the bells and whistles you might expect from a smart switch. For the price(~$150), it can't be beat. Its so cheap, that it is competitive with simple media converters for the speed (and gives extra ports on either end as well). I had one running as a switch for a while, and recently figured out you can split the ports with the port isolation to turn it into a 2 channel media converter with an extra gigabit side tap. Its just a remarkably versatile and useful little device.

I got this 4 years ago to connect to one port on a NAS. Now 4 years later I have 4 10GB fiber connections plus 1 GB cable connection. It was a pain in the neck to setup as I remember, for one I didn't understand the device but at the end of the day it was running and hasn't failed. It's connected to other fiber ports from 1 ft away, a switch, then a PC 6 feet away, a NAS 10 feet away and another NAS about 150 feet away. No problems, nice and fast. Just make sure you have AIR space around it for cooling.Good device. It's a winner so far. Would be nice to see one with more SFP+ ports.Update: It's still running good 5 yrs later. Still runs hotter then I care for.

Needed a switch that could handle multiple fiber connections to other switches. Good price and runs cool. Easy switch-over to SWOS and easy to configure through the web interface.

Works great,my intent was to use this to aggregate multiple connections, and not use router OS. I have 3 SFP+ devices and only 2 on my gateway. As soon as I hooked it up it just started working like an unmanaged switch. Which is fine with me, I really didn't want to manage it any ways. No noise what so ever, seems to be solid build quality.

I needed a low cost and _quiet_ 10gig capable switch for solution development. I was familiar with Mikrotik as most of my home network is RouterBoard hardware, and at the price point of this switch there is very little out there. My top requirement was having 10gig SFP+ and being quiet, where most 10gig switches aren't designed for home use and belong in a datacenter as they are rather noisy.I plugged this switch in with a couple of budget cost 10gig SFP+ DAC cables, also purchased from Amazon, into my Intel X722 NICs and immediately got link at 10gig: NIC Link is Up, 10 Gbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None. The RJ45 gigabit port is perfect to connect to the rest of my network. VLAN tagging is working as expected, once you get accustomed to how Mikrotik does things it isn't too difficult to manage VLANs and other advanced settings.You you can manage the device using WinBox, CLI via SSH, or their WebFig in a browser.Out of the box your easiest bet is to use WinBox as it can discover and talk to the device directly by MAC address, rather than the default IP subnet of 192.168.88.1.Once you are connected, you can add DHCP support so that it can be managed on your network. Go into the IP -> DHCP Client section. Click the "plus", set the Interface field to "bridge", and click OK. The OS will now start using DHCP to set an IP address on the bridge interface.If you want the management interface to be on a specific VLAN, you need to add the VLAN into the Interfaces with the desired VLAN ID list first and then repeat the DHCP client settings but with the name you selected for your VLAN interface.

This is an awesome, well built device. It supports extremely fast 10Gbit speeds and routes traffic like a boss.The one big negative is heat. SFP+ 10Gb over copper modules get *HOT*. Fill this thing up and it's going to run pretty close to overheating all the time. Put it in an non-climate controlled space and it will over heat and start rebooting.I had to strap a PC case fan to mine to keep it running through the summer.

This is a powerful little switch and for the price it is an amazing value for 10 gig networking. I bought this for my home storage network, and while the learning curve is a little steep for the built-in OSes, it's very much worth it. It does get a little warm but if it's in a well ventilated area that's not really a huge concern, mine lives at the top of my rack in a cool room. As far as speeds go, everything is as advertised, though it was a little clunky to give it a static IP, after that was done it was smooth sailing. Currently using SwOS since I don't need the routing bits, but it's nice to know it has the capability if needed.Would recommend to anyone looking to get started in 10 gig networking!