Customer Reviews

Cisco SLM2005 5-Port 10/100/1000 Gigabit Smart Switch with PD and AC Power

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I purchased a SLM2008 8 port Managed Gige switch and two SLM2005 5 port Gige

switches. I am running a Cisco WS-G3550T-24 (24 ports Gige TX, and 2 Gbic slots)

as a central house switch that connects to a WS2950T-24 with two GigE-TX ports as

uplinks to the 3350. I am running QOS end to end for my VOIP PBX and Linksys PAP2T

analog 2 port FXS adapters for analog DECT 6.0 cordless phones. What I liked about

the Linksys devices is they are 802.3af 15V POE compliant which is great for powering

POE phones.

However in under 4 months one of the 5 port devices went bad. I ordered another

immediately as I didn't have a spare, and sent it in for repair. Now two months

later I have a second bad 5 port SLM2005 go bad. This one was hanging off my

2950T-24 and when the switch went, it destroyed the Gbic Phy chip on port Gige0/1

on my Cisco 2950T-24 switch :(

This is too bad. The first failure was after performing perfectly for 3+ months

at 1000Mbs Full Duplex, all of a sudden port 3 and 4 could not handshake. Then I

lost port 5. A 2 port Gige switch is fairly useless. On the second 5 port SLM2005

there was a fault in the power circuit. I noticed electrolytic leakage on one of the

capacitors in the power section. When it went, it killed the SLM2005 and it took

the GigE Phy chip in my Cisco 2950T-24 switch with it.

Ironically I have spares for the 3550 switch, and I can pick up another 2950T-24 as they

are only about $200 on the used market. My firewalls are Dual Juniper GS5. I guess it pays

to stick with the good stuff. I mean the 2950 Switches are almost 10 years old and you

normally can't kill them. The linksys Gig switches I would classify as Junk sadly.

But I rather bite the bullet now, spend the money and have it last then replace these

cheap knock-off's every few months.

I wanted to love this little guy but it just wasn't meant to be. Like everybody else said, it ran hot, started behaving erratically at four months and was dead by six. I ultimately replaced it with an unmanaged TrendNet 8 port gigabit unit.

I bought two of these for my network at home. I have lots of actual cisco gear, but chose these because they are small and quiet. I really liked that I can power this unit from my larger PoE switches in my data closet. If you need cheap switches that do the job right, buy these