NETGEAR 48 Port 10/100 Smart Switch + 2 Combo Ports - Lifetime Warranty (FS750T2) NETGEAR 48 Port 10/100 Smart Switch + 2 Combo Ports - Lifetime Warranty (FS750T2)

Pros: Works great on good ports.

Cons: My company has four of these that we purchased new about six months ago. I don't think that 100% of the ports work on any of them. We had to replace one under warranty due to the entire middle section of 16 ports not functioning out of the box. There are a few bad ports scattered about on the others but we haven't bothered to replace them. Some ports will only intermittently function.

Pros: I have purchased several 48 port Netgear switches from different vendors. And hundreds of 16 and 24 ports of the same type of switch… in 7 years of using this brand we had to replaced 3 of them and 2 were because the ‘user” physically damaged them…
All of these switches are in relatively harsh environment and they have been an excellent choice for us.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: keep a copy and or register the unit in case you need warranty service, but they are very tough and work very well... I have more than 100 units of the 16 and 24 ports working for more than 7 years.
the 48 ports with the gigabit speed I have been using for about 1 year and don’t expect any problems

Pros: It worked very well for several years.

Cons: I've been trying for over a week to get technical support to issue an RMA. So far nothing. The online submission was ignored and I've been on hold on more than one occasion for over an hour with no one ever answering.

Other Thoughts: As long as it works this is a great unit. The lifetime warranty so far has turned out to be a joke. I can't get anyone to even talk to me. No one answers the online support cases and no one answers the phones.

Pros: Great price - work great when all is fine

Cons: Too early to give up after 3 years.
Power surge protected.

Other Thoughts: I have this one setup in a very busy medical office. Today this switch suddenly give up on me. I have a spare switch 24 ports which save me else the office have to be down for a few hours which is not an option.

All IT guy out there, get extra switch for client which can save you.

I hope this one can last longer than 3 years. So I give only 3 eggs related to this early giving up.

Pros: Cheap and easy to configure. High port density in 1U.

Cons: First unit had dead ports and could not save settings across reboot. Netgear replaced it, but we still had to pay shipping to Netgear for the RMA.

Other Thoughts: Replacement switch has been solid so far. We'll see how it holds up over the long run.

Pros: The switched worked pretty well during the short period of time that it was fully operational. The web interface is basic, but gets the job done. The feature set is actually pretty good for a small office network that doesn't require stacked switches. You can hang a file server off of one of the gigabit ports and use the 100 Mbit ports for clients.

Cons: After less than a one day of use at least four ports died in the switch. The switch is properly mounted in a rack with plenty of air-space on both sides of the switch, but it still gets pretty warm to the touch. We only have 27 ports populated, and the network at the office is not heavily utilized. We learned our lesson and ordered a more expensive but also more reliable switch from Newegg. You get what you pay for.

Other Thoughts: Look at the dates of the positive reviews.. they all are from 2007 - 2008. Now look at the dates of the reviews where ports failed ... 2010 and later. Netgear must have decided that this product doesn't deserve quality control any more and the customers pay the price.

Pros: Easy to Setup

Cons: Had to return 2 times because the ports started failing

Pros: Cheap switch with rudimentary VLAN and SNMP support.

Cons: SNMP is very slow. It takes a couple minutes to walk the whole MIB of the switch. I've used SNMP on many other switches and hosts and this is the slowest I've ever seen. I also have a Netgear FSM7352S and SNMP on that is fine. But if I need to walk the interface part of the tree, it takes at least 10 seconds, which is not acceptable for any programs that show bandwidth usage in real time.

Other Thoughts: I'm not doing anything special with this switch right now so the CPU on it can't be that overloaded. The times I gave above are for a switch with only a few hosts plugged in and passing very little traffic. If you need fast SNMP support, I'd look into Netgear's managed switches.

Pros: rack-mountable, easy to install, jacks and power supply are neatly located

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: This replaced a 24-port DLink switch that was fried by a brownout, and I don't miss it. It's so much nicer to have all wiring plugged into a 48-port switch than to jimmy 30-something wires around on a 24-port switch every time someone wants to use a conference room...

Pros: good price, no problems as of yet

Cons: none