NETGEAR 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Plus Switch (GS108Ev3) - Desktop, and ProSAFE Limited Lifetime Protection

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The said switch enhances your internet productivity and lets you split the network between multiple network devices. It offers a Gigabit connection on every single port of the same that further ensures a fast internet connection on each connected device. However, the internet experience provided by the same in offices isn’t good enough due to its low buffering speed of 128 KB. So, whether you are looking for a “network” switch for home or office, the GS308 can fulfill your requirements in both cases while saving your money. Also, you’ll be able to grab the most energy-efficient switch with 24/7 support. Yes,when it goes wrong, the devices like my PC, TV , Laptop etc will lose connectivity with the switch and for instance the windows taskbar icons will indicate a connectivity error by displaying yellow mark. Note: Here we demonstrate the configuration on a NETGEAR FVS336Gv3 firewall router. The method to configure your internet router may not be the same but the same principles will apply. Refer to the vendor of your internet router if you are unsure how to complete the configuration of the router. Considering the switching capacity of the devices, GS108 has a capacity of 16GBs, while GS108E does not have any switching capacity. Also, GS108 has 9720.0 B as its Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU), while GS108E doesn’t have any MTU.

Important: (that one took me a while) Set the VLANID for the respective port group to 4095 to ensure VMs will receive tagged traffic.

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It's still working at present using the PN home hubs second IP range selection choice of 172.16.0.64 - 172.16.255.254, where I believe a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 must be used and tht subnet mask is indicated too in the switch software. Also the switches "DHCP" is enabled. To save money on operating costs, the Netgear GS108 and the Netgear GS308 are optimized for lower power usage. They are compliant with IEEE802.3az energy efficient ethernets. Wall Mount

Unlike the other model, you get the facility of a half-duplex mode coupled with a power management option over the Ethernet. That translates to more speeds and special permissions and restrictions for some users. – How Does It Perform? The performance on this switch is near excellent. You will get 1 Gigabit connection on all the ports connected to the switch to ensure seamless and fast internet connectivity through all the devices. WiFi on 2.4Ghz and 5 Ghz is still on mainly for Mobile phones/tablets etc. The switch caters for the 1xPC, 1xLaptop (both at 1Gbps) and 1xDVD Player and 1XTV (Both at 100Mbps) User can configure Port Mirroring, VLAN, QoS, Rate Limit, IGMP Snooping and Broadcast Storm Filtering. Note: For this type of configuration, the internet router used must be VLAN aware. The devices in each VLAN are not allowed to communicate with devices in other VLANs because inter-VLAN routing is disabled on the router.

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As your PlusNet router is already functioning as your DHCP server you don't want anything else trying to do the same job. I'm oversimplifying but you can think of them as fighting over the DHCP clients and potentially causing DHCP failures. It could be at least part of your problem, if not the whole thing. Another reason to manually assign the switch's IP - so every 'DHCP' option on your switch can be disabled for minimal confusion. Yes, you can compare the above ethernet devices based on a variety of factors. However, the GS108 has already been compared against GS308 in the article above; here you’ll read about GS208 vs GS308. We are living in a data world where so much is transferred across our networks that it’s easy to understand why video streaming, gaming, or even file transfers can experience interference. To resolve this issue, we can use one of the Netgear unmanaged ethernet switches.

Am i right in thinking that in general when you Enable a Switches DHCP that is for instance in a setup like mine ie connected to a modem/router, that all the switch does is "say" . On the subject of switches doing DHCP, well get a proper layer 3 managed switch and there is a very good chance that it will have a DHCP server that you can configure. I know you've all suggested this is a bad idea and I understand why, but oddly it appears to be the most stable setup. On the other hand, the features that are common between the two devices include the fanless design, versatile installation options, and the ability to save power. The main difference between Netgear GS108 and GS308 is that the GS108 is an older model than the GS308. Moreover, the former comes with a buffer speed as low as 128 KB, while the latest GS308 comes with a buffer speed of 1 MB. – Main Features and Price DifferencesThe technology used in building the GS308 makes it more energy-efficient than the GS108. The switch helps you get more done with far less power, which makes it a better choice in terms of performance on the whole. – Range and Support Winner: GS308

That said unless you are using any of the managed features then probably not a great idea to use a managed switch. Though that said the basic switch chipsets from the likes of Broadcom are all layer 2.5 managed these days. Moore's Law and all. Personally I use a VLAN for a guest WiFi network and QoS so my Vodafone SureSignal gets priority above everything else. I was going to use LAG but Netgear lied on the original spec sheet. Transpires it only supports static LAG which does not work with my Linux based server jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (ZLIB) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc. rtl83xx-switch switch@bb000000 lan6 (uninitialized): PHY [mdio-bus:0d] driver [Realtek RTL8218B (internal)] Modern operating systems tend to regularly poll for Internet connectivity and may behave differently when the gateway and/or DNS becomes unavailable. rtl83xx-switch switch@bb000000 lan8 (uninitialized): PHY [mdio-bus:0f] driver [Realtek RTL8218B (internal)]

Recently I've added a Netgear Managed switch to my PlusNet HomeHub Modem, but unfortunately whilst the setup works it requires resetting at least every day.