ZYXEL XGS1250-12 1/2.5/5/10G Switch - Unboxing - Specification & Features Overview

The XGS1250-12 is a multi-gigabit web-managed switch from ZYXEL. It has 12 ports: 8 x 100/1000M ports, 3 x 1/2.5/5/10G RJ45 ports and 1 x 1/10G Ethernet SFP+ cage. It has a simple web manegent interface where you can configure VLAN (802.1q VLAN and PVID), Static Link Aggregation, QoS (802.1p and Port-based), IGMP Snooping and Port Mirroring, etc
The switch is ideal for home network or SME network, where there is a need to connect devices with different link speed and connectors. For example, the 3 x Multi-Gigabit RJ45 switch ports can used to connect to an upstream router, or a high performance WiFi6 access point with the 2.5GbE port. The 1G/10G SFP+ port will be a great choice to connect to a NAS (network attached storage) or to extend the network via a Fiber cable.
XGS1250-12 is very solid with the metal casing. Even though it has a built-in fan which will automatically start when the temperature is high, the switch works silently most of the time. At the same time, it is energy-efficient and only consumes around 12W when all the ports are are fully occupied.
The XGS1250-12 is a web-managed switch, yet it is also plug-and-play. There is no need to configure anything in order to use it, except for changing the default password.
If you enjoy using open-source OS, I have a good news. The XGS1250-12 is supported by OpenWRT. All the functions are working fine, except for the SFP+ cage.
In this video, I am going to unbox the XGS1250-12 switch. After that, we will have a detailed overview of the ports, features and the web management interface walkthrough.

Video timeframe:
00:00 - Zyxel XGS1250-12 Specification & Features Highlight
01:28 - The Zyxel XGS1250-12 is supported by OpenWRT
01:56 - Unboxing the Zyxel XGS1250-12
03:10 - I/O & Connector Overview
05:16 - Access the Web Management UI
06:23 - System Tab
03:32 - Port Tab
08:12 - VLAN Tab
09:04 - Link Aggregation Tab
09:40 - Mirroring Tab
09:59 - QoS Tab
10:32 - IGMP Snooping Tab
10:46 - Management Tab
11:51 - What to do on the First login
12:03 - The XGS1250-12 Power Consumption
13:26 - The XGS1250-12 Applications

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Thank you ZyXEL team, especially Jamie and Harry for sending me the switch.
Thank you for watching and see you in the next video!

[zsoltcselenyi]

Please make an openwrt video with this switch 👍 On the other hand if you plug a multi gig SFP+ RJ45, like the Mikrotik S+RJ10, you will get 1/2.5/5/10G speeds as well! So 4 multi gig ports overall

[miroslavkrumov]

Beautiful switch, you are allowed us to touch amazing home network equipments. Thank you very much for, please proceed further.

[ChrisThomas-ltjd]

I need to connect my house to an end of garden office, distance is about 30m. I was planning to get 2x fibre to ethernet converters either end of a fibre cable. However, I spotted this switch. So, its FPS+ port, can this be connected to the fibe cable, to replace one of the converters, or would I still need the converter to connect to this switch? I'm assuming the switches link port is ONLY the 1GB ethernet port on its left?

[troyBORG]

Can you please do a video on how the vlan thing work. What's the orange green and grey options mean?

How do I tell it this port is the one I want for this vlan.

Or how do I do multiple vlans on one port. Or desktop and then vlan tags on Netgear AP for different DHCP addresses for wifi.

[TheBigXav]

What cables are those going into Multi-gig?

[edgarfriendly]

You rock!
I was just looking at it on openwrt table of hardware 😄😄

[mentisdominus]

Will a GPON ONU/ONT SFP work in this switch?

[j.b.]

Great content, thank you for this detailed review.
The XGS1250-12 looks liek a very good choice for small home networks.
However the power consumtpion sadly is quite high, at least from a german perspective.
Electricity is insanely expensive here, my NAS runs 24/7 and although it barely consumes more than 18 Watts an hour, I constantly think about electricity costs....

I would love to have my own home lab with a server and a powerful nas with 3, 5 hdds (i am using 2, 5 hdds for now, as they consume less power) but with this prices here, it will remain a dream....

[franzpleurmann]

Will the SFP+ be usable if flashed with OpenWRT?

[jasonluong]

So with OpenWRT, this switch can work as a router?

[jamesthepuerilis]

The XGS1250-12 looks good but its a terrible design, they overheat and only have a silly little 40mm fan at one end of the until and the 10G ports are known to fail within 12 months, i've had to sent two of this units back for RMA as they both failed on the same ports 9 & 11, the management features arent all that great, you would be better off going for an unmanaged version and save yourself a little money.

[VJXess]

in static LAG.If enable LAG4 can switch being use two port 9 and 10 for LAG to NAS and port 11 for computer(no LAG)?