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

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.

The bottom line The right size for a real camera installation and the wrong page to buy it from unread. Two of its own statements disagree, and the figure an installer needs first, the per-socket ceiling, is missing entirely.

On the listing

Eighteen gigabit sockets, of which sixteen are PoE+ RJ45 and two are gigabit uplinks for recorders and the internet connection; a one-key VLAN mode isolating sockets 1 to 16 from each other while leaving them able to reach the uplinks; an unmanaged switch in which all sockets are said to support PoE, with automatic detection, acceptance of unpowered devices and no configuration required; 4 kV lightning protection with a sturdy metal housing supporting desktop or rack installation; and a built-in power supply, compact design, durable metal, bilateral heat dissipation and activity lights.

One number where two belong

250 W, and nothing else. A powered switch is described by two figures: what all the sockets share, and what one of them may deliver. This page publishes the first and omits the second. The class in the title sets a ceiling by standard, but the switch has not said which of its own sockets can reach it.

The count that does not agree with itself

The title and the first bullet describe sixteen powered sockets and two uplinks. The third says all sockets support PoE. On an eighteen-socket unit those are two different machines, and nothing on the page decides between them.

The mounting, also two ways

The title offers desktop or wall. The fourth bullet offers desktop or rack. A wall bracket and a pair of rack ears are not interchangeable, and an installer who plans for one and receives the other loses an afternoon.

What it does well

The one-key isolation is genuinely useful on a camera run, and a 4 kV protection figure is a number that can be compared. Both are worth having on a unit of this size.

Before ordering

Ask two things: how many watts one socket can deliver, and whether rack ears are in the box. The page answers neither.

Availability

Priced from 93 € to 110 € across the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores the day this page was checked.

It is stocked on the American and British Amazon stores as well, in that country’s own currency. The range above leaves those out: it counts euro stores and no others.

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

  • A 250 W shared budget across sixteen powered sockets, which is the size that suits a whole-building camera installation rather than a corner of one
  • The one-key VLAN mode isolates the powered sockets from each other in a single action, without a configuration page to learn
  • Names a 4 kV lightning protection figure, which is a number rather than a claim about bad weather

Compromises

  • No per-socket ceiling is published at all, so what any one camera or access point may draw from this switch is unknown from the page
  • The third bullet says all sockets support PoE while the title counts sixteen powered sockets plus two uplinks, and the page never reconciles the two
  • The title says desktop or wall mounting and the fourth bullet says desktop or rack, which are different things on a unit this size

Specifications

PoE standard supportedIEEE 802.3af and 802.3at — stated in the title
Per-port power budgetNot published on the listing — the title and all five bullets give the shared total and nothing else, and no ceiling for a single socket appears anywhere on the page
Total power budget250 W for the unit — stated in the title. It is the figure the sixteen powered sockets share between them, and with no per-socket figure published it is the only power number on the listing
Powered port countSixteen — stated in the title and in the first bullet as sixteen PoE+ RJ45 sockets alongside two uplinks. The third bullet says instead that all sockets support PoE, which does not agree with the count in the title
Port countEighteen — stated in the title and in the first bullet, made up of sixteen powered sockets and two uplinks
Port speed1000 Mbps on the sixteen powered sockets and 1000 Mbps on each of the two uplinks — stated in the title; no 10/100 steps and no BASE-T designation are printed
Managed or unmanagedUnmanaged — stated in the third bullet in that word, with plug and play and no configuration required; the second bullet names a one-key VLAN mode isolating sockets 1 to 16 from one another while leaving them able to reach the uplinks
Uplink typeTwo gigabit copper uplinks — stated in the title and in the first bullet, named for recorders and for the internet connection; no SFP cage appears anywhere
CoolingNot published on the listing — the fifth bullet names bilateral heat dissipation and a durable metal build, and neither a fan nor a fanless design is claimed
Amazon referenceB0G5Y86GQ2 (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN0790885830402

The questions that come up before an order

Is a 250 W total enough for sixteen powered devices?

That depends entirely on what they draw, and the answer is arrived at by adding those figures up and comparing the sum with 250 W. The total is shared; it is never available at every socket at once. Without a per-socket ceiling on this page, the class named in the title is the only guide to what one socket may deliver.

What does a one-key VLAN mode actually do?

It isolates the powered sockets from each other so that traffic goes only towards the uplinks, in a single action rather than through a configuration page. On a camera installation this keeps the streams flowing to the recorder and stops the cameras talking sideways. It is a fixed arrangement, not a set of rules to write.