Gen2 UniFi Switches - USW-24-POE

welcome to crosstalk solutions my name is Chris and I am very excited to get my hands on one of these generation to unify switches so this is the u.s. W 24 p OE this is one of the brand new generation 2 switches and they've got a ton of these switches coming out there's only four out right now but there's another four in the early access store so before I really dig into this thing and unbox it let's take a quick look at all of the different generation to unify switches that are hitting the market right now so the first one is the you SW 16 p OE that's 299 bucks it's a layer 2 switch you're looking at eight gigabit ethernet ports with p OE + and eight non p OE ports it also has two one gigabit SFP ports so i'm not actually going to talk about the ones that are in the early access store but you guys can kind of fill in the blanks here or if you have early access store access on ubiquity x' website you can go check out these other models that i'm not going to mention here so we're gonna skip one then we get to this one that i have here this is the US 24 p OE retails for 379 dollars layer 2 switch it's got 16 p OE plus ports 8 non p OE ports and two SFP one gigabit fiber ports then we're gonna skip another one and we're going to get into the u.s. w pro 24 p OE so this is the non pro version the pro version of these switches basically means that it is a layer 3 switch and layer 3 with a caveat because they're not layer 3 yet but ubiquity says that with a software update in the future these pro switches will have layer 3 capabilities the you SW pro 24 p OE also features 16 p OE + ports and 8 p OE + + ports it retails for $6.99 by the way and it also has two sfp+ 10 gigabit fiber ports so for those of you out there I hear this every single time I do a review on a switch Oh Chris how come it doesn't have sfp+ ports well if you spend the money you can get the switches the 24-port pro unify switch that has the ten gigabit up links for all of you ten gigabit uplink snobs out there so then we're gonna skip another couple and we're going to get to the last one that has been released already and that is the you SW pro 48 p OE so that is also a layer 3 switch or retails for 1099 dollars it has 4 TP OE + @ Gigabit Ethernet ports and 8p OE + + p OE + + is 802 3 BT and then it has 4 10 gigabit sfp+ ports so that is kind of like the Big Daddy of these generation 2 switches anyways as those other ones come out of beta I will be able to talk about them unfortunately ubiquity does not like me talking about early access stuff before they're actually released to the general public so let's talk about this one though this is the u.s. 24 p OE I'm gonna do a quick unboxing here because there's not much to these sort of more utilitarian boxes that come with these switches there is a note right here where we can download the QuickStart guide there's a QR code right on the box and if we pop it open we get power cord rack mount ears and then some screws and hardware then we have the switch itself oh look at this thing so one of the nice things about these generation - switch it at least the this one I'm not sure if they're all exactly the same but this switch is fanless so there is no fan if you guys go back through my channel the switch that I have in place right now is the old US 24 - 51 the generation 1 of basically of this switch and it had very loud fans that I had to replace with Noctua fans and this one is supposedly perfectly quiet because it's a fan 'less design and from what I've read and seen online people are very impressed with the heat dissipation in this thing now I'm not gonna crack this switch open if you want to see someone crack one of these open tom I did a video on this so I will put a link down to Tom's video where he actually opened the chassis and took a look inside at the fanless design but yeah as you can see there's no fan vent holes anywhere around this switch whatsoever another thing that you might notice right off the bat is that this switch has a 7.9 inch depth okay so the older switches are 11 inch depth the ones with the fans so this is a more compact form factor for this switch which i think is absolutely wonderful so again this MSR piece for 379 dollars it is a layer 2 switch it has 16 p OE plus ports and you can see all of the ports 1 through 16 have a little lightning bolt with a plus next to them that's going to be 802 3 AF and 80 for the first 16 ports and then these last 8 ports here are no POA whatsoever then we have our two gigabit SFP slots here and another thing that is really cool about these switches if you look over here in the corner there is a little LCD screen I think they call it an LCM screen I just pulled off the little paper that covers it this is a really neat little feature of these switches it's a touch screen and we're going to get more into the touch screen later in this video when I actually have this switch set up and operational so I guess that's what we're gonna do next I'm gonna take this switch and I'm going to replace the one that I currently have over on my sort of main desk station over here and then once I replace it and adopt it we will come back and I will show you the LCD and any other kind of cool features about this [Music] [Music] I am now all switched over pun intended and you can see that it is so much cleaner on my desk over here I used to have the old 24-port switch sitting right here on the desk and I have now moved it underneath with this nice under the desk 1u rackmount bracket that I have I've actually had this bracket sitting under my desk for years and I used to have my phone system there and now it is going to be housing this switch so that I can kind of clean up my desk top over here a little bit and I absolutely love it I think it looks so much better without the 24-port switch sitting right on the desk top let's take a look at this switch in unify here we can see the u.s. 24p oe if I click on it there's a couple of differences from my previous switch and I wanted to point those out first and foremost if we click on ports we look at one of these p OE ports there is no longer the option for 24 volt passive p OE out of this switch so if you need 24 volt passive p OE such as like my camera that i have up here above my desk I'm gonna have to have a POA injector to power up that camera actually this one is a dome camera I think it'll do 8o 2.3 AF but the cord was not long enough to get all the way over to where it needed to be so I'm gonna have to rerun that cable anyways other than that we do have some settings for the actual screen of the second gen u SW s so there are site settings I just have everything on site settings and you can find the site settings for the switches over in settings and then there just right here so LED and screen settings LED screen enable it or disable it we've got the screen brightness and then we've got this really cool thing called multi-screen enable rack multi screen synchronization right so that basically means if you've got a number of these switches stacked up in a rack you can have them so that they're all displaying the same information they're sort of timed together so that they're not like all over the place and it just sort of looks like a neat little effect I've seen some video online of multiple switches showing the same thing on their screens and switching screens at the same time and stuff then we've got a screen timeout of 300 seconds and really that's about it when I infer 24 he was on specifically it was on for 0.49 and so I updated it to four 0.66 and I highly recommend that you do so when the switch was on 4.0.4 t9 the functionality of the touchscreen was pretty minimal you can just basically tap the screen and it would like cycle through a few different metrics and statistics but there wasn't anything you know super spectacular about it they made huge improvements to the touch screen between 4.49 and 4.0 66 let me show you those improvements now because I love the way that the touch screen works on this switch okay so here we have the usw touch screen we're just gonna hit it once and so the sort of unify access point that's right in the center turns the touch screen on and off you can see just by a touch there and then we have these four corners with different information so the top-left corner here is your port information so if we click on that we can start drilling into our ports so we've got Ethernet ports SFP ports well let's take a look at Ethernet ports then we've got ports one through twelve and we've got ports 13 through 24 and notice that it actually shows you know gigabit 10 100 it shows which ports have active connections so let's for instance look at 1 through 12 and then we could see out of 1 through 12 only 1 through 4 are populated let's look at those and we could see 1 2 3 4 with 4 being 10 100 and these green ones all being gigabit connections so let's take a look at for instance number one and here we can see that number one is here's the real-time traffic data from this port and then we've got p OE at 3.4 watts so this first one I believe I believe if I'm not mistaken this is my clearly IP phone right so we got 3.4 watts on the clearly IP phone and we can see the traffic going into and from the phone now if we swipe on the screen we can go to port to port 3 port 4 and then of course an it actually goes to port five I thought that might go to port one but it actually goes to port 5 so port five shows down since there's nothing plugged in and then of course we can scroll through until we find another one should be port 16 port 15 port 16 there we go support 16 6 8.5 watts p OE what does port 16 port 16 is my cloud key Gen 2 plus so that is why that one is pulling you know looks like anywhere between 7 to 11 and 1/2 watts there and at decent amount of upload to this device because of all of the cameras that are currently writing to it so we can see 9.2 megabits of upload here we have one that doesn't have any p OE it's just an rj45 so this is a no p OE down at the bottom now if you have something plugged into p OE swipe up by the way to go back there we go if you have something plugged into a p OE port that's not using p OE it'll say p OE plus but it doesn't have a wattage next to it right so see how this one has wattage this one does not all right let's go back home top right we have our statistics so here's our total throughput to the switch and notice there's a little real-time graph as well and then you've got all these different pages of information so it tells us our uplink is port 24 if we swipe we get the system CPU and RAM utilization if we swipe again we get the real-time p OE output of the switch so right now we're at 16 watts and then you can see this white line at the bottom is total capacity p OE capacity of the switch so you can see that i'm barely using it with the devices that i have plugged in last seven days we can see the total wattage watt hours 60 watt hours this is says last seven days but in reality you know i just plug this thing in yesterday so this will populate over time and then finally we have the same thing but last 30 days all right let's go let's go ahead and while we're looking at this throughput graph let's go ahead and run a speed test on my computer and see what that looks like all right so I've started a speed test to speedtest.net and we should very shortly see that speed test reflected on this graph there it goes so now the download portion has stopped and now we should see the upload portion start to go and my connection here is about 400 by 20 so that looks almost exactly perfect now watch it'll scale as the download speed test goes away watch it scale there it goes now you can see this is the end of the upload speed test right there so that's pretty cool alright so then we've got system oh yeah there's system use resources we already looked through all of that stuff down here in the going clockwise here this little Settings icon this allows us to adjust the screen brightness the LCD screen brightness we'll put it back up at about 80 also configurable from within unify we can change the background color this you can't do and unify this you can only do here in on the switch itself it seems we'll make it green there then we have just our stood this is just telling us what we're seeing on the port's right so for POA no light is no POA and orange light is a toh 2.3 AF or 80 I guess then we have link here 10 100 is orange gigabit is green scroll again and we've got the SFP ports same informations so if it's just regular we've got one gig is green so we'll see a green up and down there for one gig I actually don't like this color I'm gonna go back to blue let's do a lighter blue no we'll do that teal color that looks nicer okay and then finally we have information this is the IP address of the switch the IP address of the unify controller the uptime of the switch this is 4 hours 37 minutes since I ran the updates and it last rebooted and then we have the MAC address and the firmware version and that's it so that's pretty useful information and yeah so I'm really diggin new touchscreen it's certainly a lot better than it was in the previous firmware that I had when a when I received the switch and yeah I think it's cool it's really impressive all right there we have it a quick look at the new you SW 24 pol II generation to switch from vehicle t networks what do you guys think about this switch do you think the touchscreen is just a gimmick or do you find that actually to be useful in like a you know a production environment let me know down in the comments below along with any other thoughts or questions that you may have you guys enjoyed this video please give me a thumbs up and if you'd like to see more videos like this please click subscribe my name is Chris with crosstalk solutions and thank you so much for watching [Music]

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Published: Fri Jan 10 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/supersondre]

Bought one, but when I realized only the pro ones get L3, so I returned it, and bought a EdgeSwitch. I see no point in going Unifi(except WiFi), now with UNMS, more customization, not dependant on CloudKey, better routers, same or even better prices.

[u/Vintagemetaphor]

Great video! I am weighing up wether to go for the 16 or 24 right now and trying not to remember I just bought 2 of the 8 port switches to see if I was happy with the unifi stuff.

[u/AllLostAgain]

I just bought one of these, I'm going to go and pick it up in a few hours, I can't wait to install it!

[u/SpeculationMaster]

They don't do 24v passive anymore? So G3-PRO won't work?