• Reviews around wire (1.80 of 5)

    TP-Link 5 Port Gigabit Ethernet Network Switch | Ethernet Splitter | Sturdy Metal w/ Shielded Ports | Life Time Warranty| Plug-and-Play | Traffic Optimization | Unmanaged (TL-SG105)

    • Some of the equipment in our house is hard wired and some uses wifi
    • Connects my hard wired home network reliably
    • Went a little crazy and hard-wired the house
    • After having issues with Wi-Fi, I decided I’ll just go back to hard wiring everything
    • Those allowed me connect all the devices I wanted hard wired and it works great
    • Retail package and comes with power supply which is 9 volts... important, because I will be hard-wiring behind the dash in my car.
    • I used it to hard wire my while who use with cat 5-e
    • I used this ethernet switch in conjunction with a pair of TP-Link AV1000 Powerline Ethernet Adapters to make a reliable, higher speed, hard-wired connection between the router in my home office and the TV (and its support devices, including a TiVo) in my family room.
    • Does as advertised, Strong wired connection havent noticed any degradation of signal, highly recommend
    • Mine are in a very small wiring closet, vents but no fans, conditioned space but not chilled, i.e., office temperatures
    • Needed this so I can get hard wired ethernet to my desktop PC and FreeNas server
    • My house came hard wired but naturally, they don't put any switches in and my router only has 4 ports
    • Now we have one network cable running from the Ubee modem to this switch, our hard wired items connected to the switch, and our personal wifi router is also connected to the switch
    • works great i'm using it for my gig ethernet and hard wiring my office.
    • I used this switch when hard wiring my house with CAT 5e.
    • Home Internet speeds tested when Hard Wired and WiFi between 120 MBPS to 148 MBPSProduct NEGATIVES with Hard Wire Connection from TP-Link
    • I have to have my work computer hard-wired to the router, and I have an older computer for other reasons which has no wifi card, so I had to get two of these
    • I have a hard wire running to it and sometimes it bogs down
    • I have to have my work computer hard-wired to the router, and I have an older computer for other reasons which has no wifi card, so I had to get two of these
    • We're routing gigabit internet through this to the rest of our house that's hard wired
    • I ended up buying an ASUS RT-ACRH13 for where I live and a 50' cat5e cable (temporarily ran it over the asphalt driveway and protected it by spiking two 2x4's with a space (think "speed bump") in between to protect the wire until we [sigh] cut the driveway and bury it) and hooked the other cable to a Linksys E2500 in the steel building workshop with a 125' overhead cat5e.
    • The extra jacks enable fast connectivity for our home network's central back-up drive, a VOIP phone hub, and hard-wire Ethernet cables to my and my wife's desks for faster backups of our computers than we could get by using only our wireless network.
    • I have mine in my home office so that I can maintain all of my devices in my office on faster, more reliable, wired connections
    • This switch allowed us to hook all five devices (3 TVs and 2 computers) to our network via hard wire
    • I purchased an ethernet switch from TP Link to hard wire Apple tv and increase
    • I use this to extend the amount of hard wired devices I can connect to my wireless/wired router.
    • If you have a NAS, this switch can load the Wi-Fi and load the hard wired
    • Cable Modem, Airport Extreme, then switch for hard wire for TV, Xbox, etc
    • I like it a lot and my new access point is now up and running and also now my kids have hard wire internet as well thru a network cable that is connected straight to this switch.
    • Works great have it so my PC and my Xbox can be hard wired and have zero signal loss
    • I bought this as I got a new smart tv that also supported a hard wired connection and wanted to take advantage of that as we stream everything now
    • The hard wired devices will not work when wired through this switch, but all of them work when wired to the router directly.
    • Come to find out that it was a loose wire at the wall
    • I vastly prefer Ethernet (wired) over WiFi (wireless) since not clogging up the WiFi bandwith with 20-30 more devices makes for a better experience for those devices that truly need to be wireless
    • I like having everything wired in my house
    • The sharp wire leads from the circuit board are very close to the bottom of the switch cabinet and easily contacted by anything that goes into the mounting holes on the bottom of the switch
    • So convenient to run all wires to this and then a single wire to the modem that's out in the open
    • Initially, we had plugged our hard wired items into the back of our wireless router but we were getting dropped signals from our netgear router
    • Great if you need more ethernet ports, currently with covid-19 and working from home, my job needed specific equipment hard wire to my gateway modem, added bonus with the extra ports now being wire to my PS4, and
    • I bought this to hard wire 2 Roku devices to my network
    • My Ooma was wired to a wireless access point and it works for many years in that configuration.
    • It just sits there in the wiring cabinet and works.
    • In order to hard wire, we would have needed to go underground which meant cutting through an asphalt driveway - TOLD you it was challenging!
    • I was tired of my Wi-Fi lagging, so I went hard wire on the equipment that needed to stay connected
    • My internet has become more stable wired with this compared to using wifi for my devices
    • The hard wired devices will not work when wired through this switch, but all of them work when wired to the router directly.
    • The only positive I have to review on is that the switch seems to have a quality build to it
    • -R-O problems with these systems
    • I didn't have time to chat at the moment, so I used their e-mail support option.