Cisco Systems Business CBS250-8T-D Smart Switch | 8 Port GE | Desktop | Limited Lifetime Hardware Warranty (CBS250-8T-D-NA) 8-port GE / PoE input / Desktop

Great product

Don’t buy this switch unless you want it to snoop on your network. This switch messed up my Linksys router firmware. I had to reload the firmware again to get my network back secure again. I also removed this switch from my network and reinstalled a old Cisco switch and all is good again. I have another 16 port Cisco smart switch that this switch tried to reconfigure. Looking at where the switch was made is says China. Now it’s all clear to me. DONT BUY ANYTHING THATS MADE IN CHINA FOR YOUR NETWORK unless you want the Chinese snooping on your network and most likely are stealing your private information. And after bringing this to the company attention where I bought it from, “ Target Deals” out on Canada”, they immediately took all their items off of Amazon. Don’t buy from this company. They are a Chinese company out of Canada. I ended up eating this switch because the company wouldn’t return it and give me a refund. This is not a Cisco switch like they use to be. From now on I’m buying from local companies where the network equipment is designed and made in the United States. I would have given it a no star for the switch quality and the company that sold it to me off of Amazon. Don’t buy this switch.

I have owned several other Cisco SMB line of switches and this replaces the SG2X0. I own 3 other CBS250 switches and all are working great. Bought this unit for my network test lab to learn and test thing out. Just the right size and ports for that purpose. Excellent product.

As a developer for Radius solutions, this is the least expensive and simplest switch to use. The web interface is a mite tricky, but with the web interface and the CLI you can set this device up to track your 802.1x development down to the wire level using port spanning and WireShark.

No issues. Good enough for price