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] | | Newegg.com Rating: 10.0  |
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| Reviewed by: | N/A | | Review Date: | 03/24/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
100% (13 of 13) 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] | | Newegg.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Code_Junkie | | Review Date: | 07/25/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (11 of 11) 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 by Tom Carpenter "- www.sysedco.c can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Tom Carpenter "- www.sysedco.c | | Review Date: | 02/02/2007 | | User Location: | Marysville, OH | | Review From: | User Review |  | | |
96% (77 of 80) 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 by Paul Barnaby can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 6.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Paul Barnaby | | Review Date: | 10/04/2007 | | User Location: | Bellevue Nebraska | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
92% (24 of 26) 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] | | Newegg.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Retired_Engineer | | Review Date: | 10/22/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
91% (21 of 23) 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 by Soukie can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Soukie | | Review Date: | 05/24/2007 | | User Location: | Jacksonville, FL | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
90% (10 of 11) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Not for mixed speed network Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
Pros: Jumbo frames, cheap.
Cons: Doesnt work worth beans in a mixed speed environment. If you have 2 computers with 100mbit adapters and 2 with 1000mbit adapters, the switch will run ALL ports at 100mbit, effectively making the gigabit adapters run at 100mbit.
Have a 10/100 router or 100mbit adapter in ANY of the computers thats going to be connected to this switch and your wasting your...
[D-Link DGS-2208 8-port Unmanaged Gigabit Switch review by pzaully can be read at Newegg.com] | | Newegg.com Rating: 6.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | pzaully | | Review Date: | 08/25/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
79% (49 of 62) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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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 by Sean P. Logue "If you can't wi can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Sean P. Logue "If you can't wi | | Review Date: | 12/19/2007 | | User Location: | Research Triangle Park, NC USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
70% (12 of 17) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Great Gigabit Switch This is one of most econonomical Gigabit Switches on the market today. They are quiet, don't overheat, and work very well. I use with systems at gigabit where wired for it, 10mps for printers and 100mps for CAT5 wired systems. This is your typical mixed environment. If your having troubles connecting at Gigabit speeds, it's your fault, not the switches. Your system needs to be setup for Gigabit, you need to cabled CAT6 or at least CAT5E, and your patch panel to your switch needs to support ...
[D-Link DGS-2208 8-port Unmanaged Gigabit Switch review by Todd Poole can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Todd Poole | | Review Date: | 06/09/2007 | | User Location: | Frostbite Falls, MN | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
68% (11 of 16) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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DO NOT GET THIS IF YOU ARE RUNNING MIXED MODE HERE IS SOME USEFULL INFO I FOUND
first D-Link makes some great stuff but the D-Link DGS-2208 is not one of them
first tech support is useless they know nothing untill you get a 4-5 level of support (45 min.) the way to get info out of them is to call the (LOCAL) sales desk punch in the keys for presales question
and from that sales desk call "IT WILL NOT WORK WELL IN MIXED MODES" from this info i sent mine back to for a full refund
here are 2 reviews i...
[D-Link DGS-2208 8-port Unmanaged Gigabit Switch review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 08/30/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
64% (34 of 53) Users Found This Review Helpful |