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Netgear GS605 5-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch (10/100/1000 Mbps)| Manufacturer: | Netgear | | List price: | $96.00 |
| Our price: | $38.94 that is 59% off! |
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| Netgear GS605 5-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch (10/100/1000 Mbps) |
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Does what its Suppossed to do.. |
Perfect, Easy, Simple. Router Tech for AT&T here and I bought this to replace a Linksys Nightmare.. I highly recommend this.
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Understanding Gigabit networking |
| I do not own this product (yet), but want to clarify something about gigabit speeds. Unless you have a gigabit network card (nic)on your machine, this will do nothing more than a fifteen dollar switch. If you do have a gigabit card, it will only make a difference if you are transferring data from a machine that also has a gigabit card. Here is the real kicker for just about everyone left - for gigabit to reach it's true potential speed, you have to have a motherboard with gigabit built in. Anyone with a card can only reach the potential of PCI bus, which is ~400Mbps. That is not to say that a 300% improvement is not worthwhile, just don't expect full gigabit speed. Oh and remeber there are 8 bits to a byte, so that is about 167 megabytes per second potential transfer (and that does not include management overhead due to collisions etc). A switch is not a switch... |
| Netgear - Netgear GS605 5-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch (10/100/1000 Mbps) |
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A switch is a switch |
I bought one of these units several months ago because I was constantly moving 500MB to 6GB MPG files between several of my regular computers and my DVRs and moving files this large takes quite a while at 100Mb. I hoped Gb speeds would help a lot. I did some timing and I was able to obtain about 3x shorter transfer times on my local LAN with everything connected to the Gb switch. My problem was that my house was already wired with CAT 5 cable and Gb ethernet really requires CAT 5e cable to get consistent speed. With my CAT 5 cabling, the speed was very intermittent--one time much faster and not the next.
I know this review should be about this product itself and so I'll say it's a fine product and I'll probably buy another one when I finally decide to re-wire my house. But inexpensive unmanaged switches like this are commodity products and this one is not a whole lot different than any other so I just buy whatever is cheapest.
Just make sure you have CAT 5e or CAT 6 cabling before going to Gigabit and expecting Gigabit speed. |
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