Yuanley YS25-0801P Switch Management
This is an unmanaged switch, so we do not have a management interface. This is a bummer since with PoE switches it is nice to be able to power cycle ports using management interfaces. The recent MikroTik CRS320-8P-8B-4S+RM we reviewed can do this.
Yuanley YS25-0801P Performance
In terms of performance, this switch seems like the others that we have tested at this point.
This is similar to the Davuaz 8+1 PoE solution as well as other 8+1 switches we have seen with the Realtek chipset.
Yuanley YS25-0801P Power Consumption and Noise
The switch comes with an internal 120W power supply. If this was a non-PoE switch, we would expect to see a 12-18W PSU.
Idle power is 3.3W, which is about 0.3W higher than the Davuaz. It is also much higher than non-PoE switches that use the same switch chipsets.
Plugging in a 2.5GbE port added around 0.3W to bring us to 3.6W. Again this is about 0.3W higher than the Davuaz.
Adding a 10Gbase-T to SFP+ adapter instead got us to 4.6W. This was the same as the Davuaz and about 2W higher than a non-PoE switch.
Overall, we use 20W for the switch itself, but it is likely a sub-12W device just for the switch itself. With a 120W power supply, we get about 100W for PoE/PoE+ devices.
Final Words
One way to look at this is that at $99.99 – a normal $10 discount at a $89 street price it is not the cheapest 8+1 switch on the market. Another way to look at it is that for a few dollars more than a non-PoE 8+1, this adds PoE/PoE+.
At the time we are writing this review, the Davuaz is about $15 cheaper than the YuanLey. When we looked inside the switches, we saw that they had the same power supplies and PCBs. As a result, our recommendation would be to get whichever costs less that day.
Where to Buy
We purchased our unit on Amazon. Here is the affiliate link for this model.
Here is an affiliate link for the Davuaz if you want a quick comparison.
Ultimate Fanless 2.5GbE Switch Buyer’s Guide
You may have seen that we published the Ultimate Cheap Fanless 2.5GbE Switch Buyer’s Guide. Here is the video for that one:
You can see more switches in this class in that video and we are keeping the link above updated with the switches we review.
Is there any info if you can have jumbo frames with that switch? Or other switches for that matter?
Could you perhaps add that to your test setup otherwise?
@RohitKumar
I have been banned from the forum due to spam. I not sure how. Can a ask to unban me?
Same nick/email as here.
@Jimmy Hedman
FWIW, the Asustor Switch’nstor 9 Gen2 uses the same combination of Realtek chips (RTL8373 + RTL8224), and claims to support 10k Jumbo frames (https://www.asustor.com/news/news_detail?id=33001).
I’ve got the Yuanley on my desk next to me, if I get some time over the weekend I’ll test it with a couple devices.
@Tom H
Ah, great, thanks!