GigaPlus GP-S25-2402 Management
Again, this is an unmanaged switch, so there is no management interface.
GigaPlus GP-S25-2402 Performance
Since we did this some time ago, we only had our iperf3 testing:
Overall performance was decent. Something else to note is that we did not get the funky segmented performance between the 2.5GbE ports and the 10GbE SFP+ ports like we saw on the 16-port model here because there is a larger switch chip.
GigaPlus GP-S25-2402 Power Consumption and Noise
In terms of power consumption, this switch is notably higher than the lower port count variants with a 10W idle power consumption.
With a single 2.5GbE port linked, we increase by 1.0W to 11W.
Lighting the SFP+ with a 10Gbase-T adapter, we go up 2.3W to 12.3W. That is quite a bit. Normally, we would expect sub-2W like we see on smaller switches.
From a noise perspective, we do not have an internal fan, so this is silent. At the same time, it means the 10Gbase-T adapters make me less excited to use longer term just from a cooling perspective. They worked in our testing, but if you deploy this in a closet for six months or a year, that might present issues.
Final Words
When it comes to cheap 2.5GbE switches with 24-ports, this is a good unit, so long as you only want an unmanaged switch. To me, the two big questions with this are do you want unmanaged, and do you need 24-ports. The 4+2 and 8+1 switches have spoiled us in terms of their cost. On those smaller switches, they are handy just to have so you can hook up many devices, making a cheap, low power, unmanaged switch useful. At 24-ports, some folks will want just the web managed VLAN capability that this does not have.
Overall, this is a neat 24-port 2.5GbE switch that we will add to our The Ultimate Cheap Fanless 2.5GbE Switch Buyers Guide.
