D-Link DGS-2208 8-Port 10/100/1000 Desktop Switch
by D-Link Systems, Inc.
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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: 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.
Customer Review: Wonderful switch for small home network
Summary: 5 Stars
This switch is, simply put, great. It took longer to unwrap, open, and get the parts out the box than it did to get all my network cables plugged in and movies streaming.
I have 5 rooms with ports, so this 8-port switch is just enough to have 5 rooms/wireless router/media center/1 left to spare for another room connection in the basement.
I've had this switch running for roughly 2 months now and have had zero problems.
No performance issues, no lagging when multiple people are actively using the internet for movies or mmo's.
If you're looking for an easy home networking solution to connect your house together, this won't let you down.
Customer Review: Pretty good for home use
Summary: 5 Stars
I wanted a switch at home that can provide me with around 8 ports without worrying about the setup. This suits my need perfectly. I get 7 ports (1 is used for uplink to router) and everything started working automatically without any setup. My computer and NAS does gigabyte and the performance was pretty good while transferring files. This switch is connected to a 10/100 router and I did not see any performance degradation between PC and NAS. I will keep on testing the transfer rate across different units in my house and update my review. So far this is value for the money and does good job.
As always shopping from amazon is a nice experience.
Customer Review: Plug and Play on my HD Homerun units
Summary: 5 Stars
My 2nd purchase when I saw it on sale again at $4 per port as I need to expand my network. I used this D-Link gigabit switch to network my 3 Silicondust HD Homerun HDTV devices, PCs and printer. Excellent thoroughput and works with 100 ft CAT5e runs. I only wish they made this with affordable 12 ports! Runs without a hitch on first boot, never hanged or needed a reboot. Excellent product. I also bought more expensive Netgear prosafe 5, 8, and 16 ports gigabit for work, but some units will hang or register 10/100 - reboot fixes these, but I wonder how non-techies handle first time hiccups like these - rate them as faulty or bad?