Title: Inexpensive, but not built to last / high failure rate
Product review: A few years ago I upgraded my extensive home network to gigabit ethernet. During that upgrade I purchased two of these 5 port switches and also a matching 8 port switch (Netgear GS608). The switches worked great until fairly recently, so I'm giving these a couple of stars. However, last year the two year old 8 port switch failed, and a week ago one of the 5 port switches failed too. That's a 67% failure rate within 3 years. It's probably a matter of time before the last one fails too.I've learned my lesson...AVOID Netgear's consumer-oriented switches. I've been replacing these junky Netgear switches with genuine Cisco brand switches (not the rebadged Cisco-Linksys stuff). Sure it's more expensive, but long term it's cheaper and less hassle than throwing out several switches and buying new ones.
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