Great Price for Speed!!! I just purchased this switch for a home network just hoping to solve some router issues. I ordered it from work so I could not recall if my 3 year old Dells would do Gigabit or not.
Sure enough they did and this thing just works like a champ and no fan noise like some competetive brands. The transfer speeds are exceptional.
The manual completely left out the meaning of the LED colors. A quick web search answered the question.
Green - 1000
Yellow - 10/100
[Netgear GS605 5PT GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0  |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 07/14/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
100% (17 of 17) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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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 c...
[Netgear GS605 5PT GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH review by Steven Johnson can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Steven Johnson | | Review Date: | 07/13/2005 | | User Location: | Fort Collins, CO | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
94% (50 of 53) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Great Switch - Stellar Value I've got two of these on my home network, serving a couple of Gigabit Ethernet based Macs, a TiVO and a host of audio and video gear and they've always performed perfectly. Great design, great value and excellent performance.
[Netgear GS605 5PT GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH review by Brian Beaver "San Francisco Ex can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Brian Beaver "San Francisco Ex | | Review Date: | 09/20/2005 | | User Location: | Los Angeles, CA United States | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
93% (14 of 15) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Good switch for the price I've had mine for 6 months. No problems. For this price, don't expect to get supports for Jumbo frame rates. My bandwidth increased from approx. 25 Mbps (with a linksys 100 Mbps switch) to approx 250 Mbps (with this switch). I'm very happy with a 5X speed increase. I'm using cat 6 cable.
[Netgear GS605 5PT GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH review by Mr. Byung H. Sohn "paul210" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Mr. Byung H. Sohn "paul210" | | Review Date: | 09/20/2005 | | User Location: | Boyds, MD United States | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
90% (9 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Works as nicely as it looks In a time where the choice of cheap 5-port, desktop, GigE switches is plentiful, this one stands out for one simple reason: exterior design. It looks good enough to show off anywhere, and the vertical stand is a great desk-space-saver, something that becomes handier every day.
The only case where you wouln't buy this model would be if you need Jumbo Frame support -- but that's something 99% of people with a SOHO setup can't even use (because your standard router for Internet access wo...
[Netgear GS605 5PT GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 09/20/2005 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
83% (10 of 12) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Fast, Easy, Awesome I am able to transfer 350 megs of backup files over the network in seconds. The speed of gigabit is more than twice the speed of USB 2.0 (480 megabits.) It is an easy no-brainer install. Just plug in the switch, connect the cables and zoom. The whole process of installing the switch takes just about 30 seconds. I have converted two networks over to gigabit without a hitch or problem. You will also need to purchase the gigabit network card GA311 (about $25) for each computer. Installing the ...
[Netgear GS605 5PT GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH review by D. Young can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | D. Young | | Review Date: | 05/29/2005 | | User Location: | Utah | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
80% (8 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Compact, instant operation, fast transfer - excellent buy
[Netgear GS605 5PT GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH review by Roddy can be read at CircuitCity] | | CircuitCity Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Roddy | | Review Date: | 09/15/2005 | | User Location: | Tulsa, OK | | Review From: | User Review |  | | |
63% (100 of 157) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Super simple. Just plug it in and connect cables. Of course it would be nice if it supported Jumbo frames but youre not going to get that for $50. My only real gripe is the large wall wart power converter. I wish that they had instead put it inline in the power cord like my Belkin wireless access point.
[Netgear GS605 5PT GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH review can be read at CircuitCity] | | CircuitCity Rating: 9.6 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 04/08/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
62% (87 of 139) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Very Happy This is a great little box. After buying this one i also have the 8port on my home network. They do a great job.
[Netgear GS605 5PT GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH review can be read at CircuitCity] | | CircuitCity Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 06/22/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
62% (20 of 32) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Cheap but Not Reliable Product dead only after 3 month of service.
[Netgear GS605 5PT GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH review by Leo can be read at CircuitCity] | | CircuitCity Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Leo | | Review Date: | 07/11/2005 | | User Location: | Chicago, IL | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
61% (120 of 195) Users Found This Review Helpful |