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The rack ears detach and can be rotated 90deg for easy wall mounting, or it can just sit on a surface.
To be honest, if you’re only going to use it as a dumb switch then there’s no need to have it managed via Unifi and any decent PoE switch will do as long as it supports the standards you need (af/at power, gigabit/10Gb uplink etc).
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if you’re only going to use it as a dumb switch then there’s no need to have it managed via Unifi
I think this is one of my questions - do I really need a managed switch?
Short term I think I'd be happy with a dumb one, but longer term I have ethernet cables running down to what will be a whole new bit of the house (kitchen) once we've demolished the back of the house and rebuilt it.
At this point I may well want to connect other things via ethernet down there, in which case I'd need another, smaller, switch. And I read in Networking for Dummies that it's better to have managed switches if you have more than one switch...
Fox
I'm actually trying to avoid rack mount because all my tech is living in the under eaves storage in our loft bedroom! But I'll look up how big it is.
I've had a Netgear GS105 £20 unmanaged job working perfectly for almost a decade so I'm starting to think I should just get a 16 port version for £70 but I do want PoE and Netgear 16 port switches with PoE are surprisingly expensive...