Customer Reviews

D-Link DES-1026G 24-Port 10/100 Switch

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I purchased this switch about 7 years ago from who knows where? It was used in a business setting running about 16 different devices. It was a solid switch up until about a month ago, when the fan started failing, causing the unit to overheat and connections to fail. Can't complain about a 7 year lifespan.

My only "gripe" was that the 24 ports were 10/100Mbps bandwidth, and the two side ports were 10/100/1000Mbps bandwidth. I would have liked for it to have been all 10/100/1000Mbps bandwidth, but of course, considering that it was purchased 7 years ago, something like that would have been over $1000.

All in all, it was a good switch. I will say that if you're looking at purchasing something like this today, you can find newer, better technology, such as D-Link 24-Port Rackmountable Gigabit Switch DGS-1024D for pretty much the same price as this one.

The product description states that this is a "24-port 10/100 switch." It's actually better than that.

The D-Link DES-1026G has 26 ports, not 24. Twenty-four of the ports are 10/100. There are an additional two 10/100/1000 ports on the right hand side of the front panel. All of the ports provide auto crossover when necessary.

The two 10/100/1000 ports can always be used as two extra 10/100 ports. The real advantage for me is that I can connect a cat6 cable from the gigabit Ethernet port on the server directly to one of these ports, even though the installed wiring in my law office is only cat5. The 10/100/1000 ports are also useful for daisy chaining switches.

The only reason I awarded four stars, and not five, is that I can't evaluate reliability at this time.