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Used for: More than a year
Everything above head height and out of the way
Fan noise rules out a room where people sit
Bought this for a two-storey office above a shop where the previous setup was a consumer router, a dumb switch and a pile of PoE injectors under a desk. The wall mount put all of it out of reach of feet and kettles, and the cabling now runs into one place instead of three. Over a year in, the things I would tell someone considering it: the fan is not silent under load, so do not put it in a room where anyone sits; the ports are underneath, which means unplugging by feel; and the update process takes the network down for a couple of minutes, so do it in the evening. None of that has stopped me specifying a second one for the other unit.
Used for: Less than a month
Replaces a whole shelf of separate boxes
You are locked into one ecosystem from here on
Took the gateway, the switch, the PoE injectors and two access points off the shelf and replaced the lot with one white slab on the plant room wall. The cabling is the tidiest it has ever been and the controller is on the device itself, no separate server humming away
Used for: 6–12 months
One box instead of four
Wall fixing needs proper anchors
Wall mounted, one power lead, everything else disappears!
Used for: Less than a month
Everything lives in one enclosure
Ports face downwards, awkward once mounted
Cleanest install I have ever done and the cupboard is empty now!
Used for: 1–3 months
Ran it in a converted barn where the walls are two feet of stone and the ceilings are high enough that ceiling-mount access points were never going to be cheap. Two of the PoE ports feed the aerials at either end and the wall unit does the rest. Client roaming between them is quick enough that a video call survives the walk from the office to the kitchen without a stutter!
Used for: 1–3 months
The bit nobody mentions in the reviews is the display on the front. It shows throughput, the number of clients and which uplink is live, and it turns out to be genuinely useful when someone in the house says the internet is broken: you glance at the wall on the way past and know whether to believe them. Port count is the other reason to buy it. Enough PoE for the cameras and the aerials with room left over, and the whole thing draws less at the wall than the collection of separate boxes it replaced. The only thing I would change is that the ports are all on the underside, so you are working blind once it is on the wall.
Used for: 3–6 months
Audible fan once the PoE load climbs
Brilliant kit let down by a fan that spins up whenever the PoE load climbs past half
Used for: 3–6 months
Genuinely set and forget
Five months in and the only time I have opened the controller was to add a guest network for the office next door. Set it, forget it, and the front display tells you when something has gone wrong.
Used for: 1–3 months
The hardware itself is beyond reproach
Dual-band at a price where you expect three
Hardware is faultless and I want to be clear about that. The problem is that dual-band only, at this price, was not what I expected: everything in the house that wants the newer band is stuck on five. Six weeks in and I have a second access point plugged in to cover the gap, which rather defeats the point of buying an all-in-one in the first place.