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

Needed to expand my home network to allow for more devices. Works great! Hassle free! Plug and play!

Kinda like a trusty pickup truck, nothing fancy, it just works, and works very well.

Headline says it all.

Excellent 8 GB port; connect along with cable router for LAN traffic. Getting full bandwidth from router.

Power adapter not localised to country of sale. Unable to use product.

This is a preliminary review. I have yet to contact technical support. My internet comes through my provider modem. I use an ethernet cable to connect to an Linksys WRT1900 AC wireless router. I connect the switch this router with an ethernet cable. I cannot detect the switch or any device hooked to the switch using either the NG Switch Discovery Tool or Prosafe Plus Utility. It is definitively not plug and play as was my old switch. To be continued after reaching tech support.

Works great

Good product, does what its supposed to.

I did not need 8 ports but the small cost diff from 5-port to 8-port made it attractive. This lets my 1GB network cards on my four desktops to run at 1Gb transfer speeds without going through my 100Mb Router. However, the problem with Windows 10 not talking to older Windows versions remains unsolved. So while my XP and W98 PCs now have 1Gb transfer access, I still have to use a USB storage unit off my 100Mb router to effect transfers to/from my two W10 machines. I had hopes. Sigh. Even so, it is nice to have my W10 units transferring at 1Gb speed. Hint to novices, run this off one of the four ports on your router. The network to benefit from the managed router controls should look like: World === Cable modem === Router/Firewall === 1Gb Switch === PCs

Great value, network speeds check out.