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

Perfect to add some wired connections to my router that only had one port.

Used to replace the same type of device.

Works perfectly fine . Good buy

Works perfect. I like it.

Had an old 16 port Switch and it was giving me problems. Removed the old model and replaced it with this one and it worked right away without any installation of a driver or anything.

Works as expected with my patch panel and Orbi setup. Solid speeds (Typically see 130 -170MB/sec over my whole home cat5e backbone.

Living in Florida these things get hit by lightening so I always keep a spare or two ready to go. This last lightening hit took out two of my NetGear switches, but as expected did not get anything else on the network. 100% opinion here, but I feel as though they act like fuses for the network. Sure it sucks that they get hit, but it would be way worse if my router took the hit or my wired computers. These switches are plug and play.

Got it managing 10 nodes of intense traffic (mostly to an Access database) and its been doing great. Network speed increased up to 5 times using Intel and Netgears network adapters. No problem uplinking or with mixed 100 and 1000 mbps computers working at the same time.

I followed all the steps for set up. Nothing. Would not connect. I called support and ended up hanging up on the guy because he had no idea what he was doing. This thing is going back!

Does what a switch should do.