TP-Link 24-Port 10/100Mbps + 2-Port Gigabit Unmanaged PoE+ Switch

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If you just need a small, dependable workhorse for a basic network—office desks, a couple of cameras, a WAP, that sort of thing—this TP-Link 24+2 unmanaged PoE+ switch is a pretty sensible buy. The unmanaged side of it matters: plug it in and move on, no learning curve, no controller, no “who changed what” blame game. For the money (£157.92 ex-VAT), it’s the kind of switch that typically pays for itself quickly when you’re trying to tidy up cabling and power everything over Ethernet instead of budgeting for extra power bricks.

That said, it’s not a “grow with you for years” switch. It’s 10/100 on the bulk ports, so if your users are trying to push fast LAN transfers, NAS traffic, or heavy east‑west traffic, you’ll feel the bottleneck. Also, only the uplinks are gigabit, so make sure your critical uplink path is where you want the speed; don’t expect the PoE access ports to behave like gigabit everywhere. I’d buy this for retail branches, small offices, light VoIP/camera/Wi‑Fi deployments—anything where bandwidth needs are modest—or where simplicity is more valuable than performance. If you’re building a network that needs genuinely higher throughput per device, I’d spend more elsewhere instead of “hoping” it’s enough.