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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...
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Depends what you’re doing with them.
If you’re, for example, streaming multicast video all over the place then you will absolutely need managed switches with IGMP Snooping support.
But if you will only ever have a simple, flat network without the need for traffic management then you can cascade any number of dumb switches with abandon.
ectoplasmosis
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).