Review: TRENDnet 5-port Unmanaged 10G Switch (TEG-S750)

HH, you knocked out of the park. again.
thanks for your hard work and diligence.

i'm in the market and i want this. i was waiting for my office 10G switch to be replaced, but that's not happening soon and it's kind of an overkill poe
this is actually a very good price for my applications in my home network. while i do have a wifi 6 router it's only used for phones and tablets, occasionally for laptops, but mainly for guests.

i'm old school and all of my pc's are hooked up with a LAN. originally for security, later for transfer speed.
this looks like a winner.

 

I've bought a NETGEAR 8-Port 10G Multi-Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Switch XS508M a good 3-4 years ago and it works great, you can hear the fan but not much, I mounted it under my desk and I can't hear the fan unless I go under it to plug cables
in my market it wasn't as expensive as north armerica I paid like 370USD when it was 450+ on amazon NA and now years later when 10gb is more known oh boy it's 670 ><
there's a cheaper 5 ports one the X505M but with 2022 prices it's a good 476USD on amazon
might be cheaper elsewhere XS505M is around 352$ in Switzerland and XS508M is 407$ at that price trendnet is not worth it at all

real, all ports 10gbe existed for several years but they seem to love pushing their fake overpriced only 1x 10gbe port and all the others are 1gbe switches

this one is also a "fake" but at least it's 2.5gb, and if you wonder why you would want real 10Gb ports everywhere the answer is to transfer large files over several raids/drives at the same time, even HDD if they aren't bad can take a good 1840Mbit/s around 230Mbyte/s easy with 2.5 and only 2 concurrent transfers you'll hit the limit of 2.5gbs

 

I'm still rocking a 100Mbit switch for my main network and dont need faster
The security network is on Gigabit which is easily enough.

I suppose if I had 10Gbit I might look at ways of using it, but everything is so simple and easy as it is, why spend more to gain complexity.
All my main storage is kept online in my main machine, no need for a NAS. For security I transfer data between machines with a USB NVME drive, they are even IP blocked from each other.
And with todays rapidly climbing electricity prices, the less unnecessary mains devices the better.

That went off at a tangent lol.

 

What complexity this is no more complex than the 10/100 switch you're already running it's just a shitton faster

 

Read my post again.

 

It's also a shitton more expensive..... I paid roughly $23 for my 5port Gigabit switch....and I could use all the network cabling and hardware that I already had in place. To get full use of this switch, you'd have to upgrade all your ethernet cable to Cat6 or Cat7, and replace network cards. For most of us, it's an unnecessary expense that will never be noticeable. Especially in the US where even 100Mbps internet still isn't even standard.....

 

With prices like that, ill stick with my gigabit switches for now since there is also the factor of additional cost involved in upgrading my Lenovo m700 tiny Pf Sense box and two access points to also have 10g... way too expensive.

 

i get what you meant but i felt the need for some unpacking.

let me put it in perspective:

steam powered cars were less expensive and used far more common technology (at the time) than internal combustion. but some people didn't want to wait for a head of steam to build up and/or they wanted to go farther - but the gas cars were a shitton more expensive...

when wifi came out it was very expensive and very much slower than the 10Mb/s standard ethernet at the time...

what you mean i take at face value as i'm in tech and i'm well aware of marketing/price structures.
the TrendNet isn't all that expensive if you look at gaming routers (i see you Asus), but it's well outside the price range of casual use. so your greater point is spot on

Tripp Hawkins said "There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time."

but it always starts high to defray the costs of development.

 

A very nice review, thank you.

I'd like to add that this switch is not a grounded switch. It uses a 2 prong power supply (aka "Wall Wart") and therefore it is missing the ground prong. The switch is metal construction and it has metal IO ports but it doesn't ground to earth. Instead it seems to be isolated internally.

I mention this because it is briefly said in the review that unshieled twisted pair UTP are fine and recommended (and it's what you tested with) but that shielded cables would better. While that is true, shielded cables are better if electrical noise is present, it won't work optimally unless the devices at both ends of the cable are grounded.

Therefore, don't use shielded cat6a or cat7 cables, those that have metal RJ45 ends. It probably wouldn't really matter but it won't help against electrical noise either.

I'm curious now though if the teg-s750 has a provision to ground it using a little screw in ground wire to it's chassis. Perhaps it could be grounded via a little ground wire to a metal power strip housing-chassis, which in turn would have a three prong grounded plug.

All of that could've been rectified by TRENDnet if they had chosen a better powersupply instead of a wall wart.

Thank you and again, excellent review.