Managed vs Unmanaged Switches: Which Is Best for a Home Network?

In this video, we discuss the differences between managed and unmanaged switches to determine which may be best for you and your own home network.

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Contents of this video:
0:00 - Introduction
0:33 - What is a network switch?
1:40 - What is an unmanaged switch?
2:38 - What is a managed switch?
3:21 - What are the differences between a managed and unmanaged switch?
6:14 - What are the different types of managed switches?
7:12 - Wrap up

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[cggage]

Very well done! I'm in the IT field but not in networking. I find your explanations excellent without making it so simple that people's eyes glaze over. It is just the right mix of techie and layman to explain how it all works. Thanks!

[joespratling]

Love finding these newer channels that have great potential! I hope you get tons of viewers amd subscribers

[stevens]

This is a decent chunk of concepts from my Network+ course. Excellent video!!!

[MrChezco]

I have an easy smart switch (TP-Link TL-SG108E) on our home and it's useful separating stuff and perform specific rules and management to a different subnets!

[TheRVSN]

People implement in LAN switches and LAN nodes certain protocols, allowing LAN nodes to communicate. For example Address Resolution Protocol, Ethernet and other. For inter-net communication people implement other protocols in routers. Routing is performed on each network node, though there are devices with multiple network interfaces called routers, directing data through (possibly also changing routing data or even dropping all data) by implementing certain routing protocols.

[RobbieKnox]

Thanks for making this, it's really cleared up a lot of questions for me.

[mom]

Very clear and informative explanation. Thanks for posting.

[blkmacster]

Thank you, sir. You Nailed it in a clear and concise manner.

[MikeAzul]

Thanks so much for the detailed explanations 💯

[MaxWheelblazer]

Great video. Straight to the point and lots of info. Thank you.

[my-king]

Thank you! For some reason I thought these were the opposite. I thought a managed switch would be automatically managed and unmanaged I'd need to do it all myself.😂

[RetiredLCDR]

Finally, a video designed for the home. I am not a gamer or work for an enterprise. Too often network videos are designed for those two environments. Home users have a hard time finding the information they can use. Thanks.

[braddixon]

This video helped a lot. What is the difference between smart and managed? Which is better?

[alekjuskevice]

Thank you. You’ve provided a lot of information in a short period of time.
It might be interesting to use blocks of this info and describe them individually, like a story, sort of.

[rmanning]

Great video,
Would you have or make a video on how to. Implement LAN for aLive Strem Windows PC with Livepro L1 V1 device and the required hardware.
Thank you for your assistance and response.

[oudomsambatchorn]

Can the lan port on NvR switch for ip camera provide internet for computer when connect ?

[lastone]

Much appreciated 🙏, thanks a lot. I'll be taking ccna1/ccna2 and ccna part 3 in my 2nds and 3rd year of my Degree, so really appreciate it

[carlos]

very good explanation! in les than 10 minutes...

[GERALDT]

You just explained all the protocols that have been giving me trouble in less than 10 minutes. Very impressive, sir. Very much thank you

[mikesmoove]

Thanks for the amazing info, quick question I have a WiFi mesh system running through my house. I have 3 in total mesh points running through the house. Each mesh point as a Ethernet port on the back. So my question is can an Ethernet switch work with the other mesh points that are not connected to the modem? Since the first main mesh point is connected to the router. I think I explained this wrong I need help !