PC Peripherals Managed vs Unmanaged Switch and related questions

[DigitalDude]

What are the big practical differences between managed vs unmanaged switch for home networking in your experience?

Is a managed switch needed when there is a separate firewall (pfsense/opnsense/openwrt) device?

Any good 8 port 2.5gbe managed switch with PoE on ~4 ports? (like Mikrotik RB5009UPr+S+IN)

 

[bobbyprajan]

What are the big practical differences between managed vs unmanaged switch for home networking in your experience?

VLANs, QoS, Multicast etc

Is a managed switch needed when there is a separate firewall (pfsense/opnsense/openwrt) device?

It is not mandatory but depends on your router and requirements. Suppose if you want multiple zones and your router does not have enough ports in the router to provision interfaces per zone, then you will need to use VLANs

 

[DigitalDude]

Any good 8 port 2.5gbe managed switch with PoE on ~4 ports? (like Mikrotik RB5009UPr+S+IN)

need something like this that can be bought here:

2.5G Managed PoE+ Switch – 10-Port Multi-Gig Web Smart PoE+ Switch | TRENDnet - TRENDnet TPE-3102WS

www.trendnet.com