Port count, port speed, and whether the fan ever stops · review
TP-Link TL-SG108, eight-port unmanaged gigabit switch in a metal case review
An unmanaged eight-socket switch that names its traffic-priority and multicast standards and lists what arrives in the box, without printing any figure for the unit as a whole.
The bottom line A well-labelled switch that answers the packaging question and the standards question, and leaves the capacity question alone. For a house where television travels over the network, the multicast handling is the line worth buying on.
On the listing
Eight gigabit RJ-45 sockets at 10/100/1000 Mbit/s; support for 802.1p and DSCP traffic priority and for IGMP snooping, tied by the maker to family television; desk and wall mounting; plug and play with no configuration; a high-quality metal case; automatic optimisation of power consumption; a box containing the unit, a quick installation guide and a power adapter; and an instruction to read the manual before installing.
Three standards instead of an adjective
802.1p, DSCP, IGMP snooping. Each is a published standard with a written definition, and each can be checked against what a set-top box or a streaming device actually does. This is the difference between a page claiming that video runs smoothly and a page naming the mechanisms by which it might.
Unmanaged, and what that costs
The priority marks are honoured, not set. The multicast filtering happens, and cannot be tuned. For a household that is usually the right trade, because the alternative is a settings page nobody will open twice. For anyone who wanted a VLAN, the title says the answer plainly.
What is in the box
A unit, a guide, an adapter. Three lines that this shelf mostly leaves out, and the reason the first evening after delivery goes smoothly.
Nothing adds the eight sockets up
Nothing here says what all eight sockets can carry together. A switching capacity is the sum of every socket at full rate in both directions at once, and on this page there is no such total to compare against another switch.
Before ordering
If television travels over the wiring, this is the multicast line to check on the shelf. If VLANs are wanted, read the title again.
Availability
Priced from 21 € to 24 € across the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores the day this page was checked.
It is stocked on the British Amazon store as well, in that country’s own currency. The range above leaves those out: it counts euro stores and no others.
The American Amazon store returned nothing at all, so the buy button there opens a search in that country rather than a page that would not load.
Every figure in this section is what Keepa held on the day this page was last updated. Stock and prices move without warning.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 10 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
Where it holds up, and where it stops
Strengths
Lists what is in the box, so the power adapter is a stated fact rather than an assumption
Names 802.1p, DSCP and IGMP snooping individually, which turns a claim about smooth television into three standards that can be looked up
The word unmanaged and the word fanless are both in the title, which is where a buyer comparing a shelf of switches actually reads
Compromises
No switching capacity and no forwarding rate, so nothing describes what happens with all eight sockets busy at once
The traffic priority and multicast handling cannot be adjusted, since there is no configuration page to adjust them on
A lifetime warranty is claimed in the fifth bullet without the terms or the territory being stated on the page
Specifications
Port count
Eight — stated in the title as eight RJ-45 sockets and repeated in the first bullet
Port speed
10/100/1000 Mbit/s — stated in the first bullet for all eight gigabit sockets; no BASE-T designation is printed behind the figures
Managed or unmanaged
Unmanaged — stated in that word in the title, alongside plug and play, and confirmed by the fourth bullet, which says no configuration is required. The 802.1p and DSCP traffic priority and the IGMP snooping named in the second bullet are built-in behaviours rather than settings
Stated switching capacity
Not published on the listing — no whole-unit total appears in the title or in the eight bullets, and the only rate given belongs to a single socket
Fanless or fan-cooled
Fanless — stated in the title in that word, with no fan named anywhere in the bullets
Case material
Metal — stated in the title as a metal case in blue metallic, and again in the fifth bullet as a high-quality metal shell
Desktop or rack mounting
Desk or wall — stated in the third bullet as supporting both; no rack ears and no rack unit height are named
Power supply type
External adapter — stated in the seventh bullet, which lists the box as containing the unit, a quick installation guide and a power adapter
Amazon reference
B01EXDG2MO (same reference on 5 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
1210002616911
The questions that come up before an order
What does IGMP snooping change for a household?
It stops multicast traffic, which television over a network usually is, from being copied to every socket on the switch. Without it a single stream reaches machines that never asked for it. With it the stream goes only where it was requested, which is why this listing ties the feature to family television.
If the switch is unmanaged, how can it prioritise traffic?
Because 802.1p and DSCP priority are read from marks the sending device has already put on its own packets. The switch honours those marks; it does not decide them and offers no page on which to set them. That is why the feature can exist on a unit with no configuration at all.
eight gigabit sockets · up to 2000 Mbit/s per socket in full duplex, stated · non-blocking architecture · Layer 2 · fanless · metal case, black
An eight-socket gigabit switch whose headline figure counts both directions of one socket at once, and which never says where the unit is meant to be mounted.
Best for: A shelf or a desk where the unit can simply sit, and where multicast television and a quiet metal case matter more than knowing how it mounts.
eight sockets at 1.0 Gbps · unmanaged, stated · Layer 2 · Cat5e or Cat6 named · fanless · metal case · on-off switch
An eight-socket unmanaged switch that names the cable grades its sockets expect and puts a power switch on the case, and publishes no figure for the unit as a whole.
Best for: A cupboard or a desk where the switch will occasionally need restarting, and where the wiring is already Cat5e or Cat6 and expected to stay that way.
An eight-socket gigabit switch that publishes both the material of its case and a switching capacity, which is two answers more than most of this shelf gives.
Best for: A room that needs eight quiet wired sockets and a unit light enough to hang on a wall, where a plastic shell is a fair trade for the price.
