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Switch me like you mean it!
This is the best unmanaged switch I've been able to find. Unmanaged means that the unit does not have an ethernet interface that can be used to prioritize traffic flow. Unmanaged switches are by far the most common type, and for most residential applications will do the job for significantly less money.
The switch operates at full speed, and I haven't had any signs of 100 Mbp/s devices causing it to slow down other devices. I checked this, and it operates each device plugged into i...
[D-Link DGS-2208 8-port Unmanaged Gigabit Switch review can be read at Amazon.com]
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12/19/2007
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(24 of 24) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Great feature, performance, & price
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Great device. It's performance is excellent, it handles a mixed speed network gracefully, it has low power consumption even under heavy load, it's inexpensive, and it even supports quality of service.
Cons: nothing
Other Thoughts: The performance of this switch is excellent. Despite what I've read in some oth...
[D-Link DGS-2208 8-port Unmanaged Gigabit Switch review by N/A can be read at Newegg.com]
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03/24/2008
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(19 of 19) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Doesn't drop to lowest connected device speed!
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: After reading the reviews here I got concerned about the statements that this switch will drop the connection speed to the speed of the lowest connected device. In other words the FALSE reviews said "if I connect a 100 Mbs device then my other 1000 Mbs devices would drop to 100 Mbs". Absoultly NOT true. I ran several tests to make sure and they all passed as e...
[D-Link DGS-2208 8-port Unmanaged Gigabit Switch review by Code_Junkie can be read at Newegg.com]
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07/25/2008
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(16 of 16) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Good, inexpensive choice...
I'm a technology junkie, and run networks professionally, so I've had home LANs for years. After several failed desktop gig switches, and reading dozens of user reviews, I picked this model as a combination of reliability and low-price.
* I dropped this into place where I had a 100Mb NETGEAR FS608 8-Port Fast Ethernet Switch. My throughput on a large file copy went from about 5.7MB/s to 22MB/s, using the same computers, cables, and software, almost a 4x speedup. I suspect my test t...
[D-Link DGS-2208 8-port Unmanaged Gigabit Switch review can be read at Amazon.com]
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05/17/2008
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(15 of 15) Users Found This Review Helpful
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It works for me!
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: 1) Auto-MDI/MDI-X support means that you won't need crossover cables with this switch. For example, just use a standard non x-over cable to hook up to a port on your existing router.
2) The two LED's per channel show you all you need to know. One is green/yellow for 1000/100 Mbps connection, respectively, and the other is gree...
[D-Link DGS-2208 8-port Unmanaged Gigabit Switch review by Retired_Engineer can be read at Newegg.com]
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10/22/2006
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(258 of 264) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Great for its intended use
This is an unmanaged switch, which means that you can not configure Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANS) or Quality of Service (QoS) - though QoS is supported through the implementation of 802.1p, but all the attached devices must support 802.1p in order to use it. Since there is no configuration, all you have to do is plug it into power and plug your devices into it. It really is that simple for any unmanaged switch. It will automatically allow all your devices to talk to each other at the physi...
[D-Link DGS-2208 8-port Unmanaged Gigabit Switch review can be read at Amazon.com]
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02/02/2007
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(126 of 130) Users Found This Review Helpful
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To help clear things up...
Hi guys/girls,
I noticed that the first review for this item quoted what I had written in a review on Newegg so I thought I'd clear up some discrepancies between what users have been writing in recent reviews compared to earlier ones.
From what I understand of this product, hardware version 2 has no problems in a mixed network. However, from my testing when I bought the DGS-2208 and from D-Link's E-mail support, hardware version 1 shunts all ports to the lowest active conn...
[D-Link DGS-2208 8-port Unmanaged Gigabit Switch review can be read at Amazon.com]
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10/04/2007
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(50 of 53) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Great switch for the money
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: This is a great switch for the money. I see speeds of sustained 900Mb+ with this switch, testing with i-perf.
Cons: None really, it's a great product.
Other Thoughts: I'm terribly disappointed with many of the reviews. So many people post misinformation in here. People are saying the switch dumbs itself ...
[D-Link DGS-2208 8-port Unmanaged Gigabit Switch review by Thomas can be read at Newegg.com]
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09/15/2008
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(14 of 15) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Works GREAT in mixed mode.
I had to post a review because one of the reviews I read here freaked me out. I found it hard to believe a gigabit switch would fall back to the slowest speed on all ports and wouldn't auto negotiate per port. I bought one anyway to see what happens...
Bottom line: It's a gigabit switch that works as you'd expect. I have several computers with gigabit nics and several non-gigabit devices (router, print server, older computer) all connected at the same time.
The gigabit ...
[D-Link DGS-2208 8-port Unmanaged Gigabit Switch review can be read at Amazon.com]
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05/24/2007
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92%
(12 of 13) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Works Great, Watch Out for Rebate Games
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Seems to handle mixed 100/1000 mbit environment fine. I have not noticed it getting too hot, though I only have three machines hooked up to it right now.
Cons: I submitted my rebate form along with all required items. Several weeks later I received a notice that I didn't submit the UPC symbol and therefore they wouldn't send the...
[D-Link DGS-2208 8-port Unmanaged Gigabit Switch review by tim can be read at Newegg.com]
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03/24/2008
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(9 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful
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