Netgear ProSafe 8-Port Gigabit Smart Switch

by Netgear

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4 x 9.3 x 1 inches ; 1.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000PS4X8C
• Item model number: GS108T-100NAS
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 24, 2007

Product Description

The NETGEAR GS108T-100NAS ProSafe 8-Port 10/100/1000Mbps Smart Switch.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars OK switch, but SNMP support is useless, July 1, 2009

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Matt (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Netgear ProSafe 8-Port Gigabit Smart Switch (Personal Computers)

I'm a network engineer used to dealing with datacenter class equipment, so maybe my expectations are skewed...

The switch itself works ok. But this is supposed to be a "managed" switch with SNMP support. I expected to be able to graph the traffic of my switch ports. To my amazement, this switch only supports 32 bit interface counters. 32 bit counters were fine for polling every 5 minutes on 100 mbit interfaces, but they are useless at gigabit speeds. At 1 gigabit, the counter wraps back to 0 every 34 seconds, so 5 minute counter polling doesn't work (unless your traffic levels are low).

I haven't tested any of the other features really. I just use it as a normal dumb switch, but paid extra for SNMP/management support so I could see traffic levels. Since that doesn't work very well, I should have stuck with the unmanaged Netgears.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Netgear Gig-Switch, August 18, 2009

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Manuel Vasquez "HoopZeeb" (SoCal) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Netgear ProSafe 8-Port Gigabit Smart Switch (Personal Computers)

Product is deployed @ home and is working as desired. I work in the enterprise network space and I would not recommend this unit for that space. But it is working great in my home network. The unit does have SNMP support and I manage the unit using free-software found on the web. I'm pleased with it's current deployment.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works as advertised, great price., April 25, 2009

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John Sullivan "IT Guy" (PA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Netgear ProSafe 8-Port Gigabit Smart Switch (Personal Computers)

I use the port-based VLAN feature to isolate a guest access point. The monitoring features are nice too.