NETGEAR 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Switch (GS308) - Home Network Hub, Office Ethernet Splitter, Plug-and-Play, Silent Operation, Desktop or Wall Mount

This switch worked just fine for six months. Then all of sudden our Internet would go out for an 30-60 minutes, then return for no obvious reason. It became more frequent, until it was just always out. All of our other devices reported that they were fine and testing confirmed that. Unplugging this switch and plugging it back in again would restore working Internet for 30-60 seconds, then it would go out again. Removing this switch from our network completely solved the problem.

Top speed test after hard reset is 16Mbps which is far below the reviews posted and doesn’t meet my home streaming media requirements. Tests were performed from a dedicated Internet streaming media device and a 5G home Internet router connection. The streaming media device was able to achieve 140Mbps download speed via wireless connection to the 5G router. When the media device was connected to the Netgear, the test results were consistently 15-16 Mbps. It’s a sad day when wireless outperforms wired.

Excellent quality managed L2 switch! The built-in vLAN capability is very useful if you don’t have that setup at the gateway layer. Having used several other brands of managed switches, I feel this Netgear switch has the same (if not more) features as others and costs much less.

Was a great product while it lasted i loved it and didnt give me many issues sadly it died in a storm last night though and their support is bad in my experience so thats why i am only giving 3 stars.

This is my 2nd hub and if I need another Ill buy this brand.

Small footprint, durable case, excellent performance/speed. Vendor shipped fast and arrived early. Not to mention great deal.

Came with US Plug from Amazon AU don’t buy unless you’re willing to have an adaptor

Its unmanaged, so just plug-and-play!

Great value and works great

With kids doing home school and me trying to work from home, we needed more than just wifi connections. Added an unmanaged 8 port switch into my home patch panel giving the kids network drops in their rooms for much faster and cleaner connections that reduced any congestion on our modem/router. Simply had to plug in the network cables and power and BOOM speedy internet around the house.