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

Works excellent

This switch replaced a working D-link unmanaged model. What I noticed with that old switch is that it was making a very high pitched, low volume humming noise. This Netgear switch, so far, is perfect and its completely quiet. Just what the doctor ordered. Highly recommended.

This works just as expected

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.

The price was the best I could find anywhere, well, anywhere that showed up on the Internet searches from 3 different search engines. Installation was very easy. All I had to do was plug the power cable into one of my UPS / Surge suppressors, plug the CAT5 patch cable into it from the Mesh System Router, plug the CAT5 cables in from my devices. I still have 4 ports. Room to grow. The only time I have to touch it is when I reset the network, or, to dust it off on cleaning day. The switch is all metal. When I held it in my hand it felt like a little tank.

Able to bridge multiple ethernet cables at once.

NETGEAR 8-Port Unmanaged Switch - GS308 is a great little switch if you just need to split one Ethernet line into 7 or less more lines (one port is for the incoming line to be split). But thats it, just that simple, plug in one Ethernet line from your source (home cable modem in my case) into additional lines to feed additional routers and that is about it. Simple, quick, and easy to install, just plug and play, lol. Mine runs 24/7/365 and NEVER gets warm much less hot, never stops working, lights keep blinking to let you know its still working, well the power light stays on steady, but the data lines blink with a wink to let me know I can depend on them, no worries. However, NO software which is actually a good thing if you just want a simple splitter with zero ability to manage or control what gets fed to what, when, how, etc. At first that was all I needed, now I need more and find myself upgrading again. I started with a 5-port switch that had 1 input port with 4 output ports, and no management software. I expanded and needed more so I bought an 8-port which added 3 more ports, nothing more, nothing less. Now I need to be able to manage some of my ports so I will be getting another NETGEAR 8-Port Switch with options for management from my desktop, laptop, smartphone, etc. and a little security built-in among other things which I find more necessary every day. I will be sticking with NETGEAR for the solid construction and long life reliability of their products. I will leave a review for whichever model ends up running with my system so I can speak to their software and management solutions. This is only for my home networking solution and served me well, so no need to change brands, just a little more money for more features that the next models up the NETGEAR line have to offer. It will be either the GS308T (simple managed switch version) or maybe for a few dollars more (what a great name for a movie) do a little future proofing with a GS308P or GS108PE-300NAS if I dont breakdown and spend even more for extra security, but then it gets more complicated with the software and I like keeping things as simple as possible while serving my actual needs. NETGEAR has never let me down and you definitely get what you pay for over TP-Link (NEVER AGAIN) for example. Stick with what works, brands you know and know they stand behind their products. You cannot go wrong with NETGEAR unless you get a model without enough ports or without port management if you need it, otherwise this model will serve you well. NETGEAR switches with their metal cases are far superior to the ones with the cheap plastic cases which can and do break as well as overheat in my personal experience.

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.

We bought this for our Starlink Satelite but it didnt solve the Star Link router problems. (not the fault of the switch)

I have AT&T Fiber, but I prefer to use my own equipment. I disabled the wifi & connected my Asus mesh system to the gateway. The mesh device only has a single LAN port, so throwing this switch in the mix allowed me to connect my wired devices in my office to continue to be managed by my mesh router instead of AT&Ts gateway.