NETGEAR 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Plus Switch (GS308E) - Desktop or Wall Mount, Home Network Hub, Office Ethernet Splitter, Silent Operation, Black

All the wired connections in my LAN run through this hub which is used to distribute the gigabit fiber internet connection from my EERO Pro 6. The Netgear 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Switch (GS308) handles this task effortlessly. I plugged it in more than 3 months ago and it has been running continuously without any drama. Highly recommended.

I raised the internet speed in my house up to 500 MBS, but all the wired items show no speed increase. Then I figured out that my ethernet switch managed up to 100 MBS only. I change my switch to the NETGEAR 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet and WUALAA, now Im happy.

Good quality easy to use

Have several of these units, reliable, and good management interface!!!

There really isnt much to say. Netgear makes really good equipment. This is nothing short of that. I needed to upgrade from a smaller Netgear switch and knew exactly what I wanted, the best. Plugged in and powered on. Works great

My house was wired for ethernet with all the cables ending in a box in the basement. I wanted my router to be located in my family room so I ran an extra cable from the router location to the box in the basement. I then plugged that cable into the switch and also the other cables leading to various rooms in the house. Everything immediately went to work. I am very satisfied. In the photo the white cable comes from my router and the blue cables go to ethernet ports in various places in my house.

My husband does a lot of wiring for small business. He loves the netgear brand. They always work great and are easy to setup. Plug the source wire from the modem into slot 1 and then all your additional devices into 2-8 and now you don’t need wifi! Way faster! So just for general info on an 8 slot you can only use 7 of the slots, the first slot is for bringing the Internet into the unit.

Like the title says, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist or IT engineer to install this for your home network. Really nice and sleek design.

Plugged it in. It just works. It is not the cheapest, but the switch seems well made. My only complaint is the description on Amazon which describes it as a Switch / Hub / Splitter. It is a Switch. Period. The other two terms are incorrect, thank goodness. Hubs have not been made since the Gigabit standard was adopted. Hubs blindly rebroadcast packets across all other ports, and are horrible for your network. The only reason they were ever made is that switches used to be prohibitively expensive. Splitters are a very different device used to send two separate Ethernet signals (at max 100 Mbps) across a single Ethernet cable. There are very, very few instances in which this is still necessary. Unfortunately, some consumers search for those terms, which causes sellers to include them in the titles and descriptions, which results in further consumer confusion.

I had 4 ports and needed more and it was easy to add more.