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Netgear GS608 8 Port Gigabit Platinum Switch
- £32.33ex vat
- £37.99inc vat
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- manufacturer #: GS608UK
- quickfind code: 64191
- 863 in stock for next day delivery.
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You DO get full gigabit speeds.
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Windows XPI bought this, because:
1) I ran out of ports on my current switch.
2) I would like the Gigabit speed for serving files.
I currently have a 4 port switch (built into my Netgear DG834 Router), but I ran out of sockets, due to me not being the only person in the house requiring Internet and Network access. I have 2 computers, 1 laptop, and a wireless access point. My brother has a computer, and 2 xbox's, so I needed more ports.
The Auotmatic Uplink feature is brilliant for linking two switches together directly.
I also like this, because I have a gigabit ethernet socket on my motherboard, multiple 100mbps connections can be made to my shared 200GB datapool disk, to maintain high-speed transfers.
There's some photos of it here:
http://www.combatgold1.co.uk/index.php?page=user-photos&mode=get&gid=4
GREAT
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Windows XPI would recommend this 8 Port Gigabit switch to anyone!
As I have gigabit ports in all the machines at the house, so I decided to replace my old 10/100mbps switch with this gigabit one and also upgrade my cables to CAT6.
Now you dont need CAT6 cables to run this baby at a gigabit (as long as your pc has a gigabit lan port and you have CAT5e and above cables)
Love the speeds I get between PCs now. I would also of liked a router with a gigabit port on it just so you can have those speeds into the router but netgears routers only come with 10/100mbps ports, so one port on the switch stays orange (running at 10/100mbps)
It looks like in the pic for once with the feet.
Machines running at a gigabit light up Green on the port numbers at the front. and machines connected at 10/100 or which are turned off show up orange.
Awesome!
os:
Windows XPThese beauties are great, I have 4.
Best Features:
Auto Sensing of link type - don't worry if you plug in a straight thro when it should have been crossover - the switch will sort you out!
Price - clearly a bargin.
Jumbo Frames - I am no expert but - Tested with ICMP Ping and could send up to 63000ish with no frame fragmentation or packet loss.
2ms ping response accross all 4.
Good value and looks nice too
os:
Windows XPThis 1Gb switch looks great and can be placed horizontally or vertically using supplied stand. It's fairly compact which makes a change from the previous 100mb switch I had and the speed increase is amazing.
It's very unlikely that you'd get the full transfer speed offered by a 1Gb switch (this is the same with any switch) mostly due to the limited speed of hard drives. i.e. if the drives on your PCs can only read/write at 25mb/sec (sustained) then obviously the xfer speed can't exceed 25mb/sec. I'm not using jumbo frames because not all of my PCs support it. The switch works nicely with a combination of 1Gb and 100mbit machines connected to it and the port light turns green to show a 1gb connection or yellow for 100mbit.
I'm very happy with this great value switch. Well done Netgear and also Ebuyer for the price.
Does what it says
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Windows VistaI have nothing to add to what has already been said - works straight out of the box. For the record associated equipment is a D-Link gigabit NIC, a Fujitsu Siemens laptop (with gigabit ethernet) and a Netgear wireless ADSL modem router (10/100). No problems. An NAS unit/print server/media server will be added soon - once I can find out that works OK with Vista.
Great Product
This does exactly what it says. Just plug it in and away it goes. The kind of device you can just put under a desk or hide away.
Perfect
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Windows XPPlugged it in, it worked. Nice indicator lights show clearly whether connected at 10/100 or gigabit speeds, which is useful for troubleshooting the network. No fiddling around with switches, software or anything.
Jumbo Frames - not currently compliant
os:
Windows XPI bought this and regretably returned it to Ebuyer because it is not currently compliant with Jumbo Frames. Jumbo Frames is a gigabit network feature that allows larger packets to be transmitted. Needs compliant NIC and Switch to use Jumbo frames. So why do you need "JF" without "JF" Ethernet has used 1500 byte frame sizes since it was created (around 1980)so you will find gigabit network restricted number of packets CPU can handle, when you are at 100% CPU you are maxed out. "JF" increases this packet size and allows more data transmited for less CPU.
Jumbo Frames primer sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/jumbo.html
Understand Netgear will bring "JF" feature in on these products later this year.
Jumbo Frames
It looks to me that this switch does have Jumbo Frames support.
see - http://www.netgear.co.uk/pdfs/gs605gs608.pdf
Why we don't use bigger packets.
The larger the packet size the more data within, this means theres a larger chance of error. On the internet theres alot of chance for error with transmission as the connections aren't as ideal as within a lan and so they keep packets smaller so that overall, less data is to be transmitted.
Within a lan theres still this chance for error, with most cat5e cables not being shielded etc. Thats why it's best to keep the packets small.
