D-Link DGS-2208 8-Port 10/100/1000 Desktop Switch
by D-Link Systems, Inc.
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Customer Review: Works great in a mixed speed network
Summary: 5 Stars
I use a collection of Cisco enterprise switches and routers at work. You're not going to get the same performance using this switch; nor are you going to have all the configuration options that you get with a managed switch, but for a basic, unmanaged GigE switch this is perfect. And there is something refreshing knowing you don't have to configure the switch and remember how you have configured the VLANs etc.
Do not listen to the person who said that the switch down-shunted all ports to the slowest possible speed. That's just plain wet. Just don't plug a 10/100 NIC into one of the ports and expect the switch to magically turn it into a GigE connection.
Customer Review: Worked flawlessly
Summary: 5 Stars
This unit worked perfectly. I needed to build a wired network to stream audio and video to different rooms in my house. Plugged it in, it did a continuity check on my pre-wired Cat5e cables, and that was it. It identified two bad cable runs which once fixed, came up fine. I saw some earlier posts saying that it can't deal simultaneously with 1000 Mbps and 100 Mbps connections, and all 8 ports revert to the lowest connected speed. That is not true. The ports connected to my 1000 Mbps router and desktops show a 1000Mbps connection. The devices (Xbox, Direct TV DVR, etc) that are only 100 Mbps connect that way. Works as advertised. Couldn't be happier with the product. Thanks Amazon!Customer Review: Great Gigabit Switch
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of most econonomical Gigabit Switches on the market today. They are quiet, don't overheat, and work very well. I use with systems at gigabit where wired for it, 10mps for printers and 100mps for CAT5 wired systems. This is your typical mixed environment. If your having troubles connecting at Gigabit speeds, it's your fault, not the switches. Your system needs to be setup for Gigabit, you need to cabled CAT6 or at least CAT5E, and your patch panel to your switch needs to support CAT6 as well.
I bought a second for a spare, it hasn't been out of it's box yet.
My only regret? I wish I could buy this in a 16-port version for under $100.00.
Customer Review: Very solid gigabit switch but...
Summary: 4 Stars
This switch does exactly what's it'd designed to do. And does it very well. One of the features is power management - automatically shuts down inactive ports to reduce energy consumption. This is supposed to be a good feature but when combined with the same feature on other devices, it becomes bad. For instance, I had my HP laserjet printer plugged into on of the ports on this switch, and when the printer is on power saving mode, the switch senses no activity from the port thus it shut that port off. The end result is that I can no longer print until either device is reset (turn off and turned back on). I ended up plugging the printer directly to the router to fix the problem.Customer Review: Boy did this fix my network overload issue
Summary: 5 Stars
I had a issue where I've converted my entire home network to 100M Ethernet. But, kept some of the older 10/100 3Com switches that did not support non-blocking. So when I did a large (Norton Ghost) transfer from one of my machines to my storage server the entire network ground to a halt.
I put this switch in front (acting as the backbone switch) feeding the other legs of the network. Magic, all works at super speeds (not gig but FULL 100Mb) to all machines in the network. My next step is to strategically upgrade the NIC's in some machines to Gig speed but for now I'm very happy at the ease that this installed and how well it actually works.