Have 3 of these for home vmware lab. 2 for iSCSI MPIO storage network using jumbo frames feature. The other for my standard networks using vlans, and port mirror with NTOP. No issues setting up Vlans to route between each other using Cisco 1800.

Affordable managed Gbit switch with good feature set; Switch has enough memory to give true Gbit speeds; Hardly ever have to power cycle these suckers...very reliable

None for the cost

I have two of these 8-port gigabit switch that I use in my research. I use it to connect 4 old AMD athlon servers that I use for ridiculously long simulations. The other I use to connect two powerful servers to the university LAN so I can access data from it.

Solid little switch, love that it can be powered via PoE.

I love the hardware design, metal case is very attractive feature; Fast too, I had a an older unmanaged GS108 switch before, transfer speeds from my linux fileserver were usually around 830Mbps, with the GS108T speeds were usually 60Mbps faster, normally sitting around 890Mbps

Price

I ordered two routers and they came packaged and appearing to be new but after several hours of trying to figure out why one was not showing up on my network although it was working, I eventually figured out it had a manually assigned IP address unrelated to any address I use and I had to factory...

Although the switch itself has a "lifetime" warranty, the power adapter is only warrantied for two years. Our failed after about 2.5 years, and Netgear charges $27.00 for a replacement with is closed to 30% of the cost of the switch.

Although the switch itself has a "lifetime" warranty, the power adapter is only warrantied for two years. Our failed after about 2.5 years, and Netgear charges $27.00 for a replacement with is closed to 30% of the cost of the switch.

defective by design

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Management simplicity; The presence of a cable tester; Protection against loops and broadcast storms; Traffic QoS support; Virtual networks support; Moderate size; Protection against simple DoS-attacks; Affordable price; Lifetime warranty from the vendor

The impossibility of connecting four PoE clients with maximum power consumption simultaneously; The absence of the Russian language in the interface of the management utility; The impossibility of turning the switch port on or off; setting its speed and duplex manually and to disable protection