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Worked, just worked. Bought 2 and put them at 300 foot intervals along a long ethernet run.

Great product, long lasting, no issues. Works as designed.

I really like this switch. It has all the great management features you would want, the GUI makes sense, VLANs work as expected, it has POE, and it's got a great slim form factor for wall mounting and getting it out of the way. Comes with the screws necessary to wall mount as well.

My favorite part about this is the QoS feature. I have my NVidia Shield TV and my powerline network set to the highest priority, followed by my PS4, then my security system hub and HDHomeRun. I know the QoS feature works because I was able to squeak out an extra 5Mb/s in my basement which is connected with my powerline network once I set the priorities. I also like the colored lights. If the device the switch is hooked up to supports 10/100/1000 LAN, the light is green, otherwise orange. This is on a per device basis, so that you can easily see which devices you can safely give a lower priority to since they can't take advantage of full gigabit LAN anyway.

Have three of these switches - all seem to be perfectly stable (in service about a year and a half now), and Netgear seems to do a decent job keeping up with firmware updates for it (have fixed a couple of critical security vulnerabilities and at least currently my Greenbone Security Assistant setup is happy with them). Dual firmware image slots, and the ability to use it totally offline with no cloud garbage enabled, SSH access, and even the web interface is decently speedy. It's pretty much all you can ask for in a small, passively cooled, smart gigabit switch.

40 POE+ and 8 POE++ ports 4 10Gib SPF+ ports Layer 3 features Quiet fans

The MS305 (pay attention to the model number when purchasing) is a fine addition to a home network, especially with moving moderately large amounts of data between devices (pictures, streaming, archives) internally or via the Internet.