MokerLink 8 Port PoE+ Switch – Speed and Distance Review

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Today we are doing a detailed review of a new network PoE switch on the market by Mokerlink. We’ll look at what a PoE switch is, where you’ll use one, its features and if it will meet or beat my long-distance testing expectations.
As you may know, a switch is basically a network splitter. It allows you to take a single network connection and split it into multiple. For example, my router is in my basement and only has 4 ports but I need to plug in my smart TV, xbox, desktop computer, wireless access point and 4 security cameras. I’d use a switch to solve this problem.
A PoE switch or a Power Over Ethernet switch, lets you supply electricity to your network devices over a network data cable. A PoE device, which accepts power from a PoE switch, like a VOIP phone, access point or a security camera can be plugged into a PoE switch and the single ethernet cable would take care of the data transfer as well as powering the device. It’s super convenient because you only need to run one wire from your network to the device. No need to worry about power outlets nearby your PoE device install location.

This PoE switch can power devices up to 30 watts, including 802.3af and at. To know if a device supports PoE, it will be written on the device or in its manual or on the product specs page. Don’t attempt to power PoE passive devices with a PoE switch because you could damage the devices. For example, this 24v access point needs a special adapter and does not work with a PoE switch. Non PoE accepting devices, like computers, Xboxes and TVs can be plugged into a PoE switch with no issues because the switch will not send electricity to these devices.
We next check out the box contents and apply the rubber feet onto the switch.
I discuss the grounding terminal on the device, and the power connection. When it's powered up, there is no humming fan sound. I like this feature. We’ll do a heat test in a minute to see if they sacrificed the fan for excess heat.
On the front, 8 ports which support powering PoE devices up to 30w each or a total of 120w across all 8. These are 10/100 Mbps ports which is plenty of bandwidth for a 10MP security camera recording at 30fps.
Next there are 2 gigabit uplink ports. Use these ports to connect other switches, your modem or router.
Next, we have an SFP port. It’s also an uplink port used to connect the switch to your network using fiberoptics
Now we have this slider with default and extend. This is a very cool feature.
a. Default mode is where all ports can communicate with each other at top speeds. My surface pro plugged into port 1 can communicate with the PoE cameras plugged into ports 2 and 3 as well as any devices connected to an uplink port. The uplink ports can see everything plugged into the PoE link ports.
b. When I change the mode to extend, we now have what is called vlan port isolation across the main PoE ports. Devices plugged into the PoE link ports cannot see each other. If I try to ping devices in here, I get no response. The uplink ports are unrestricted and can see and be been seen by all the 8 main ports. Extend mode also introduces a speed drop to 10Mbps but it bumps up the maximum cable length for the ports from 100m (328ft) to 250m (820ft).
We done some temperature testing next followed by some PC to PC ping and speed testing. We connect a couple security cameras and do some frame rate and bitrate testing using both modes.
In conclusion, the PoE switch performed way beyond its advertised specifications blowing the maximum distances out of the water and maintaining top speeds. For $65.00US, MokerLink is really up there competing with the big network brand names. I love that there is no clunky power brick, no humming fan and of course, the extend mode with isolation. I’ve been using this switch for a few months as you may have seen in other videos. No issues what so ever and I’m quite happy with it so far. Check out my blog where I have posted all the speed and distance results so you can get a better look. Thanks for letting me share my experience with this switch.

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