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Bought this and a Dlink green switch. All worked great until I moved and setup a whole house network. The Dlink kept dropping connections by putting ports to sleep. Cable runs were not overly long but went to 2nd floor and across the house. After much frustration swapped the Dlink out with the Trendnet and everything started working. The ports being put to sleep were to gigabit nics.

I have had this switch in my home server rack since the beginning of August 2013. Since the initial installation, it has been up 99% of the time. Only when I have the entire rack off has the switch been down. Solid build quality and great speeds.

The TPLink switch is incredibly easy to set-up. Each port is fully auto-sensing so no neeed for cross-over cables or toggling DIP switches meaning that you can have the switch up and running in less than five minutes. The performance of the switch is excellent for the price. Even with older equipment still running 100Mbps Ethernet, I have seen approx 50% increase in data throughput speeds on my LAN compared to the OEM switch it replaced. Overall, I would say the TPLink is excellent value for money. Ideally suited for a small office or home LAN. I'm used to getting around 3-4 MBPS but with this im getting 8-9 MBPS, I downloaded Black ops 2, SimCity, Battlefield 3, MOH Warfighter at the same time and only had taken around 30 mins to finish . I make YouTube videos and before it would take 30-1.50 Hours to upload a 30-40 min video and with this it only had taken 10-20 mins to upload

Metal Case. Ease of use. Works out of the box. Knock on wood but I have never had a metal cased Netgear dumb switch fail.

* Nice compact form factor * Included power adapter option is nice * Even nicer is being able to power it off PoE - one less wire/plug socket to deal with * Integrates well with the UniFi Network app, showing what devices are connected to it

UniFi compatible and suited to the kinds of awful environmental conditions the old Ubiquiti Tough Switch Pro was perfect for. Being managed by UniFi rather than UISP simplifies the network, so it's GREAT to have this niche filled. Surprisingly useful to have more ports, didn't know we needed them until we had the option.

I replaced a Linksys 5 port 10/100 switch with this 8 port one. I paid exactly the same (before rebate even) for this one as I did the linksys - and it uses 1/10th of the power. I monitored on the socket how much power it used, and with 1 port running at 1gb, 2 at 100mb, and 1 at 10mb (old HP printer), it still only uses 1.2-1.3 amps of power under heavy traffic load.