Sunday, Mar 12 2023 - Weekly Off Topic / Complaints / Pictures / Everything Else Thread

Sorry, this turned out longer than I had hoped. The TL;DR is I'm looking for advice on which 24 port Unifi switch to buy.

Just picked up a UDMP SE for my home network. Before that I had a hybrid network with a Netgear router, netgear managed switch and a bunch of Unifi APs (with UCKG2). Netgear router started to have trouble (spontaneously factory resetting) so I made the move to a Unifi router.

Immediately realizing there are benefits to replacing my Netgear switch with a Unifi one (basically the Netgear switch is stopping me from implementing vlans and having full control over the network) but that brings me to the conundrum of which one to get. Since I have the SE, I have more than enough POE for all my APs and I'm not running cameras.

So I think the prudent choice would be either USW-24 or USW-PRO-24. I don't have multi-gig internet and I'm not really sure I need the fatter backbone of the Pro but I am attracted to the SFP+ interface.

Two questions:

First - is there any reason for a relatively normal home network that I would benefit from the pro switch with SFP+? Does SFP+ even matter if you're feeding it with an SE? Is there some future-proofing I need to be aware of? I looked at going whole hog on a USW-PRO-24 POE but it seems crazy to buy a bunch of POE when I have no use for it and if I really want to "future-proof" I would go all the way to the USW-Enterprise-24-POE but that seems nuts right now.

Second - anyone have any idea on how often they restock them? I can pick up the USW-24 easily, but the pro seems to be OOS everywhere.

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