I’ve missed the good old days of configuring and setting up good quality switching hardware (like the big, huge Cisco switches and routers I used to experiment on with their IOS command line interface). I recently ordered this newer, smaller Cisco switch which can also provide power to a new “prosumer” WiFi AP (no power cables needed).

This unit is very stable and reliable and I bought it because it provides the following features:
[8 ports] [fanless quietness] [gigabit switching] [dot1q trunking vlans] [poe.af] and a return to using [IOS] management over SSH!
So our home network has the following hardware running our WiFi network:

Ubiquiti UAP-AC-PRO gen2 (multi SSID-VLANs)
  ʌ(poe)v
Cisco Switch SG250-08HP poe (multi dot1q-trunks)
  ʌ(cat6)v
OpenWRT Router Linksys-WRT32X (one tagged-port, multi VLAN-interfaces)
  ʌ(802.11ac)v
TP-Link Archer C7-V5 (basement router, connected modem)

switch-sg250-08hp#show run
config-file-header
switch-sg250-08hp
v2.5.5.47 / RTESLA2.5.5_930_364_286
CLI v1.0
file SSD indicator encrypted
@
ssd-control-start
ssd config
ssd file passphrase control unrestricted
no ssd file integrity control
!
vlan database
vlan 3-4
exit
hostname switch-sg250-08hp
exit
no logging on
aaa authentication dot1x default none
power inline limit-mode port
ip ssh server
!
interface vlan 1
 ip address 192.168.1.254 255.255.0.0
 no ip address dhcp
!
interface vlan 3
 name home
!
interface vlan 4
 name guest
!
interface GigabitEthernet1
 no eee enable
 spanning-tree disable
 no spanning-tree portfast
 spanning-tree link-type shared
 switchport mode trunk
 switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,3-5
 no eee lldp enable
 power inline limit 15400
!
interface GigabitEthernet2
 no eee enable
 spanning-tree disable
 no spanning-tree portfast
 spanning-tree link-type shared
 switchport mode trunk
 switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,3-5
 no eee lldp enable
 power inline limit 15400
!
...
!
interface GigabitEthernet7
 no eee enable
 spanning-tree disable
 no spanning-tree portfast
 spanning-tree link-type shared
 no eee lldp enable
 power inline limit 0
 power inline never
!
interface GigabitEthernet8
 no eee enable
 spanning-tree disable
 no spanning-tree portfast
 spanning-tree link-type shared
 switchport mode trunk
 switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,3-5
 no eee lldp enable
 power inline limit 0
 power inline never
!
exit
macro auto disabled
no ip igmp snooping querier
switch-sg250-08hp#