2021-06-13T20:00:00
Rated 5 out of 5
GS108Tv2 Managed Switch
Product does a nice inexpensive job for a managed switch. Instruction manual is indepth and well documented; however would be nice for a section to give case and best usage info would be helpful for the less technical as some of the options need little better definition. All-in-all would buy again. Java plugin works with IE but via Switch View it doesn't for EDGE.
Barry
Originally posted at
2020-12-19T19:00:00
Rated 5 out of 5
Great Switch
This is a powerhouse switch in a small package. This is one of many I have purchased for my company?s network to help us move into the 10G world.
Dr M.
Originally posted at
2020-12-18T19:00:00
Rated 5 out of 5
Great Switch
This is a powerhouse switch in a small package. This is one of many I have purchased for my company?s network to help us move into the 10G world.
Dr M.
Originally posted at
2020-10-07T20:00:00
Rated 4 out of 5
Good features for a low price.
I got this switch for it's high end features at a very decent price. The switch seems great, high quality. The only reason I didn't give it a 5 is because there web interface settings are a little criptic.
John
Originally posted at
2020-04-28T20:00:00
Rated 5 out of 5
Great Little Switch
This has been a good switch as an addition to my home network. It does exactly what I need.
Patrick S.
Originally posted at
2020-03-29T20:00:00
Rated 5 out of 5
Great PD switch
Needed a gigabit switch for an in-wall patch panel and wanted to get rid of the cord dangling down the wall. This being PD made it super simple. Have had it installed for about a week or so with no issues. Excellent management capabilities as well.
Justin
Originally posted at
2020-03-29T20:00:00
Rated 2 out of 5
Great PD switch
Needed a gigabit switch for an in-wall patch panel and wanted to get rid of the cord dangling down the wall. This being PD made it super simple. Have had it installed for about a week or so with no issues. Excellent management capabilities as well.
Justin S.
Originally posted at
2020-03-28T20:00:00
Rated 5 out of 5
One of the best purchases
I've owned this product for 4 years and it is still doing great. I bought it to use link aggregation with my NAS and the extra speed totally justifies the added price compared to an unmanaged switch.
Juan
Originally posted at
2020-03-23T20:00:00
Rated 1 out of 5
Replacing NETGEAR products
This particular product pushed me to switch over all of my networking hardware to Ubiquity and its family of AP, switches, and security gateways. There is a significantly noticeable difference in performance and value. I've used NETGEAR router products for years. This was the first managed switch I purchased. I found the interface and configuration of my network required that I work around how the product is configured and its software limitations.
Tony D.
Originally posted at
2020-03-18T20:00:00
Rated 5 out of 5
Professional features at an excellent pricepoint.
I got the GS108T smart switch mainly to improve security and performance of my home network. After reading up on all the features, I was impressed with how easy it was to set up on my mostly consumer-grade network hardware. Even though it took a few tries and some googling to get the advanced features set up right, it will still work fine as a ?dumb? switch right out of the box on factory settings. There are much cheaper ?dumb? switches out there - but if you operate a SOHO network and are security-minded, or even if you?re a hobbyist who just likes to network all of your appliances together like myself, I would highly recommend this switch. It provides tons of functionality at a very reasonable price, and the compact form factor also fits nicely on a small desk or cabinet.
Mike W.
Originally posted at
2020-02-29T19:00:00
Rated 5 out of 5
Great for home use
I have been using the Netgears for years at work. This is a great switch for both work or home
Stefan D.
Originally posted at
2020-02-22T19:00:00
Rated 4 out of 5
Works Great setup a little complex
I was using a GS108TV1 before getting this GS108TV2. My first idea was to go to the V3 unit, but it didn't support 802.3ad LAG, so I purchased this unit. In setting up 802.3ad I had to do some research beyond the user manual to understand the options I needed to select. A table in the user manual listing the configuration for 802.3ad would have helped. I was able to get it working and it is working fabulously!
jthight
Originally posted at
2020-01-29T19:00:00
Rated 5 out of 5
Excellent Device
Absolutely like the ability to manage this switch and the affordable price it is offered for.
Mark D.
Originally posted at
2020-01-11T19:00:00
Rated 5 out of 5
Great Smart Switch
I need it it for my cyber security lab. It has done a great deal of Justice for my experiments
Daon M.
Originally posted at
2020-01-08T19:00:00
Rated 5 out of 5
Wonderful little device
Delighted by the features and capabilities of this switch great value
Travis G.
Originally posted at
2019-12-03T19:00:00
Rated 5 out of 5
Reliable and flexible
Was able to setup link aggregation for my PC and NAS. It has been working very reliably , no issues
Manuel
Originally posted at
2019-10-28T20:00:00
Rated 5 out of 5
Reliable. Love the PD capability
Love the many features packed into this little switch. Great for NAS with LAG capability. Easy to setup and use. Very reliable.
PSoberanis
Originally posted at
2018-03-08T19:00:00
Rated 4 out of 5
More than most, it is a cost effective solution
I have a high data throughput requirement, the need to segment groups and an absolute necessity to aggregate ports and send traffic to data servers on-site. As a recently retired Senior Network Engineer and CCNP, I of course wanted to have L3 type gear, but the budget didn't allow for the cost. So, I did some research and although 3 makers of switches came close, this little guys beat 'em in just about every area I could think of. I did my research by actually buying and running these things through real 'live' testing.
I am thrilled at the port aggregation results, especially when using these in pairs, or connecting to another Netgear 'managed, L2 or L3 product'. At the risk of being a 'master of the obvious', it really Does Matter that you use the same linage of products because one of the most disappointing thing I found was that dissimilar products, even though conforming to the "same" RFC's, did not necessarily play well together or they managed to play well, but at reduced rates as opposed to having say 2 GS108Tv2 at each end of the managed connection, (upstream or downstream connection.
I am taking full advantage of the nice features that avail themselves; VLAN's, LAG, and Qos, (as many policies as 30-40!). The best thing I have found is that Netgear GS108T's, GS110T's, (well the ProSAFE type gear) all perform LACP extremely well. You can get dissimilar products to do LAG, we used to call it 'trunking' in my world and short of stepping up to a Cisco-type environment and it's painful cost, is to purchase gear like the GS108Tv2.
Now, there are a couple of things that make this thing a bit 'hinky'. The biggest thing that I found was that you had better make sure that all of the ports you are connecting to trunk upstream have the same speed and duplexing settings, otherwise, lights don't blink quite right ;-0, best to set everything to 'auto-negotiate' Secondly, if using DHCP, it does not like being on the same network as another DHCP server, even if you have made sure that the addresses it gives out are not overlapping and you are not on the same VLAN. When this happens, the switch repeatedly reboots itself, (rather than just shutting off the port where the problem comes from, which is what I am used to...).
All-in-all, it's a winner in my book. There are a lot of things I did not look at, but if other features work the same way that ones do that I AM using, well even more reason to seriously consider this, or any of the ProSAFE l2 managed switch.
Doug
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