Editorial, 23 Aug 2026. Specs from the maker page. Street from named Amazon snaps. We have not burned this chassis in. Affiliate tags are not live.
TP-Link TL-SG1005P: the two-AP PoE brick
The cheap-PoE roundup says buy a 5-port fanless 65 W brick. This is that SKU. Four PoE+ ports for the radios, one spare gigabit for the uplink. No fan. No controller. No 2.5G tax.
Five 1G RJ45. Ports 1–4 are 802.3af/at, 30 W each, 65 W shared. Port 5 is data only. Unmanaged: plug it in. Fanless metal, 99 × 98 × 25 mm, wall-mount holes. External 53.5 VDC / 1.31 A brick. Maker idle 4.29 W, 74.24 W with a full 65 W PD load. 10 Gbps fabric, 7.44 Mpps, 2K MAC, 16 KB jumbo. 802.1p/DSCP QoS and IGMP snooping are on; there is no web UI to touch. Two EAP613-class APs are about 12–15 W each. 65 W is the headroom, not the plan to hang four PTZ cameras.
Amazon ASIN B076HZFY3F. Recent US snaps print about $49.99 against a $56.99 strike. AllTopSteals logged $38 against $59.99 on 20 Apr 2026. Treat high-$30s as sale weather and ~$50 as the boring street. Confirm the model string is TL-SG1005P, not the 2.5G TL-SG105PP-M2.
The short list
| Box | What it is | Street, 23 Aug 2026 | Buy if |
|---|---|---|---|
| TP-Link TL-SG1005P | 5× 1G, 4× PoE+ @ 65 W, fanless metal, unmanaged. ASIN B076HZFY3F. MFR TL-SG1005P V2. 99 × 98 × 25 mm. 53.5 V / 1.31 A brick. | Amazon ~$49.99 vs $56.99 list. April 2026 sale print $38 vs $59.99. Ignore populated camera kits. | Two APs and maybe a camera. You want watts, not VLANs, and the closet should stay silent. |
| Netgear GS305P / GS305PP | Same 5-port idea. GS305P is 63 W class; GS305PP is the 83 W sibling. Fanless metal. | Often a few dollars above the TP-Link. Read the watt number on the live card, not the “PoE” badge. | The TP-Link is actually more expensive today, or you already own Netgear Insight junk you refuse to mix. |
| TP-Link TL-SG105PP-M2 | Five-port 2.5G with PoE+. Different SKU, different bill. See the 2.5G PoE note. | A 2.5G tax on top of PoE. Not the two-AP default. | The APs already have 2.5G uplinks and the closet switch is 2.5G. Otherwise you paid for idle multi-gig. |
Skip
Skip UniFi Switch Lite 8 PoE ($109, 52 W on the UI store) unless you already live in UniFi — it is more money and less budget than this brick. Skip 24 V passive injectors on 802.3af APs. Skip a 4-port 32 W toy; two APs plus a camera will surprise you. Skip a 16-port PE until the cameras exist. Skip buying this because the title says 8-port — it is five. If the job is “two APs plus a handful of wired junk,” the 8-port LS108GP / SG108PE class is the next step, not a 2.5G chassis. Injector vs switch: the two-AP note.
Sources
TP-Link US maker page (V2: 5× 1G, ports 1–4 PoE+ 30 W / 65 W total, 10 Gbps, 7.44 Mpps, 2K MAC, 16 KB jumbo, 4.29 W idle / 74.24 W with 65 W PD, 53.5 VDC / 1.31 A, 99 × 98 × 25 mm, fanless). Amazon B076HZFY3F. Amazon US snap ~$49.99 vs $56.99 list. AllTopSteals, 20 Apr 2026, $38 vs $59.99. Street moves. Confirm diskless — this one has no disks, but Amazon still mixes camera kits onto the same shelf.