Skip to content

Brand

GigaPlus

GigaPlus names the chip and calls the cooling excellent

Two GigaPlus units

A single-socket 2.5-gigabit PCIe card, and an eighteen-socket switch with sixteen powered sockets.

The chip on the page

The card names its Realtek controller by part number, states the slot widths it will sit in, counts its socket and supplies a bracket each way. Knowing the exact controller before ordering is what makes a driver a download rather than a search, and here it is worth more than the name on the box.

What each page leaves vague

The switch publishes 802.3af and 802.3at and a 250 W budget shared across sixteen powered sockets, and never states what a single socket can deliver — the figure an installer needs first — while two of its own statements about mounting disagree. The card, for its part, calls its heat dissipation excellent without naming a heatsink or a fan.

Every GigaPlus unit reviewed here

  • PCIe network cards

    GigaPlus 2.5-gigabit PCIe card on a Realtek RTL8125B, brackets both ways

    2500 Mbps · Realtek RTL8125B · one RJ45 socket · fits ×1, ×4, ×8 and 16 · two brackets · driverless on Windows 10 · heat dissipation named without a part

    A single-socket 2.5-gigabit card that names its controller, counts its socket once, and describes its cooling as excellent without naming a heatsink or a fan.

    Best for: A build where the driver has to be sorted out on a system that is not Windows 10, and where knowing the exact chip beforehand is worth more than a brand name.

    ≈ $20 / £20 / 20 €

    Check price on Amazon Read the review
  • PoE switches

    GigaPlus GP-GS1602P, eighteen-socket unmanaged switch with sixteen powered sockets

    802.3af and 802.3at · 250 W total, no per-socket figure · sixteen powered of eighteen · two gigabit uplinks · one-key VLAN mode · unmanaged

    An eighteen-socket switch with sixteen powered sockets and a 250 W shared budget, which never states what one socket can deliver and contradicts itself about how it mounts.

    Best for: A building with a dozen or more cameras where the total draw is known and the switch will live in a cupboard, and where the per-socket question can be settled with the seller first.

    ≈ $85 / £100 / 93 €

    Check price on Amazon Read the review

Every price named in a summary was read on the date that review carries. What a shop asks today is shown beside the product, and it moves.