Cisco-Linksys EZXS55W EtherFast 10/100 5-Port Workgroup Switch
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Customer Review: Best bang for the buck
Summary: 5 Stars
First off, in case anyone out there doesn't know, there are a few advantages to purchasing a switch rather than a hub. The main advantage, for most users anyway, is that a switch provides optimal bandwidth to all ports, whereas a hub splits available bandwidth between all active users. This means that if you are sharing a cable modem for example with others in a house/office building, connection speed will not be reduced when multiple users connected to the switch are online. Now, as for this little baby, as soon as I saw the price I grabbed it instantly. The Linksys name had been mentioned to me favorably before, and the going price was within a few dollars of most 5-port hubs. I have been using it for 5 months now to share the cable modem in my apartment, and I can honestly say I have never had a single difficulty. Setup was quick and easy, I was online in less than 5 minutes. The whole device is smaller than most alarm clocks, so storage is hardly an issue. Overall, this is a best buy hands down, anyone out there who needs inexpensive networking equipment, this is the way to go.
Customer Review: What's Wrong
Summary: 5 Stars
I got this switch, hooked it up and everything was great. I telecommuted for work once or twice a week, and I was able to use my home PC and my laptop from work. Then one day I was having trouble connecting to the Internet from my home PC, I was already logged in on my laptop, but called the cable company anyway. There was a problem in my city, but when the technician was having me check my winipcfg, he asked if I had a router, and I told him that I had a router switch, well since that call I have not been able to use them both at the same time. It's either one or the other. Can the cable company give you an IP address that won't let you connect with the router switch. Why did this work for over 2 1/2 months, and then nothing. Anyone with an answer, I would appreciate it. The lights are on, there is nothing wrong with the router. My friend at work has one as well, he goes through another cable company, and they charge him a little extra to use this switch, but he just loves it. What do I have to do to get this to work again?Customer Review: Excellent Fast Ethernet Switch for (almost) the $ of a Hub!
Summary: 5 Stars
Heed all the reviewers who say to get a switch rather than a hub! Especially with this one: it's dirt cheap in price but not quality! On this, each port has a dedicated 100 Mbps (or 200 in full duplex) of bandwidth.The only 'downside' is that the 5th port and the Uplink are shared, so you can only use one or the other. Seems to be standard on the smaller-sized Linksys products though, not a big deal. (This is even better if you can get it on sale but even on Amazon.com it is very reasonable!).
I have read that some top brands are better than other top brands. I haven't had much experience with using a wide variety of network equipment brands, but as far as Linksys goes I am completely satisfied. I have two BEFSR41 Cable/DSL Routers, several NIC's (network cards, LNE100TX, across several release versions), their dual intigrated 56K modem/Fast Ethernet PC Card (awesome, and no dongle!), and now this switch from them, and I don't have any complaints - they will continue to be my first choice.
Customer Review: Useful and Inexpensive
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a very useful product for those people who have more devices than they do network jacks. It works, and it's inexpensive. As more and more network-capable consumer electronic products come out, the greater the need will be for devices like these.
I am currently using this product to share a single network jack between a Windows PC and a MacIntosh Pro. Speed is much more than sufficient. Your internet connection speed will be the bottleneck in most cases, not your home network.
One thing to keep in mind though is that not all devices will work if you have this switch between the device and your office network's switch/hub. I could not get the IP telephone at work to function through this switch. However, the computers have no trouble under the same conditions. I confess that I am not knowledgeable when it comes to IP phones though.
This is a very handy device. I highly recommend it.
Customer Review: Installed With No Problem
Summary: 5 Stars
I decided to go with an ethernet home network because of its speed and secutity. I had a cable running through the attic to another room where I had a computer attached to the network. I needed to add another computer in that room to the single cable and was not sure how best to proceed.
After doing some research on the web, which included learning the difference between a hub and a switch; I discovered the switch should do the job I needed done. I plugged the ethernet cable from the router into port one, and a desktop into port 2 and the laptop into port 3. It all connected and worked properly once I had set up the laptop to connect to the network. It is now working perfectly and the switch is invisible to the network, but is quietly doing its job.
I am using the Linksys router and switch and they are doing the job I needed done. I am completely satisfied with the product.