ienRon HG0801XG 8-port 2.5GbE 1-port 10GbE Fanless Switch Management
This is an unmanaged switch so we do not get a management interface to show.
It does, however, have that port isolation feature via a hardware switch.
ienRon 8-port 2.5GbE 1-port 10GbE Fanless Switch Performance
In terms of performance, this switch seems like the others that we have tested at this point.
There is nothing special with the performance here.
ienRon HG0801XG Power Consumption and Noise
The switch comes with a 12V 1.5A power adapter. This is certainly not the best power adapter that we have seen from switches in this class.
Idle power is 2.3W, which is a bit higher than some of the other switches that we have reviewed.
Plugging in a 2.5GbE port added around 0.7W to bring us to 3.0W.
Adding a 10Gbase-T to SFP+ adapter instead got us to 3.6W. That is decent for a dual Realtek 9-port switch.
Overall, idle power might be slightly higher, but saving $10-20 might be worth using an extra 0.5-1W for folks.
Final Words
There is one primary reason to get this switch. It can often be found for under $60 with coupons. Even with what is perhaps the cheapest price, it also has the port isolation VLAN switch. We did not get nice-to-have features like rubber feet for the bottom of the unit or even a grounding point. The power consumption is a bit higher than others we have tested.
Still, the one thing that makes us laugh is the name. i-Enron or ienRon. The brand has some more interesting units that we have in the lab already, but we wanted to start with a more classic port format. The reason is simple, the brand tends to aim to be the lowest-cost one out there.
Where to Buy
We purchased our unit on Amazon. Here is the affiliate link for this model.
Ultimate Fanless 2.5GbE Switch Buyer’s Guide
You may have seen that we published the Ultimate Cheap Fanless 2.5GbE Switch Buyer’s Guide. Here is the video for that one:
You can see more switches in this class in that video.
Other than blocking inter-port traffic, what else does that VLAN toggle do? Will it allow the switch to recognize VLAN/tagged traffic and route it up/down to the port(s) where devices are broadcasting/listening on the appropriate VLAN? Will it automatically tag/untag traffic up/down the 10Gb port (e.g.: port 1=VLAN11, port 2=VLAN12, etc.)?
Providing some information about that functionality would be quite helpful. I could see some uses for those potential features in a homelab setup, for instance.
“The Smartest Switches in the Room”
Incidentally the Enron collapse is now over 20 years old, so I indeed feel pretty old.
I’d like to see the power consumption with the sfp+ working not just an adapter plugged in , that would be more realistic
Regarding the ‘vlan’ switch, I have a similar one on a Vimin switch, and it really doesn’t do any tagging. It just isolates the RJ45 side from the SFP+ side. So it’s kind of pointless. No real VLAN whatsoever.
Is it good I found the 30 port 2.5g on Amazon but worried about the label sfp without + for 10g
Will it be good for a homelab
I bought this one and it’s 4+2 cousin. The higher idle power consumption may come from the power status LED on the power adapter itself, combined with a constantly flashing internal green LED.
The 4+2 unit has locked up twice on me already in the last 5 days, but not sure if it’s the 10G-BaseT SFP+ module running at 2.5G to my router (temporary until fiber w/ 10G handoff gets installed next month) or just “you get what you pay for” at this price point.