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 Great Switch for Cheap July 11, 2010
Daltex (Dallas, TX)
Bought this switch to run hardwire to media center. With DTV, blueray player and game box can run one line to cabnet and then patch cords to each device. Have a fairly long run so the wireless potential wasn't looking great for high bandwidth devices so opted to hardwire.
Setup as easy as plugging in cables and turning it on. Works great and with the price, it's hard to beat.
Perfection. July 5, 2010
Gaines
I bought this so I wouldn't have to disconnect and reconnect my ethernet cable when I needed the internet on my pc, ps3, or 360. I can run all three at the same time and not experience any lag.
A great switch - truely plug n play, but useless documentation July 5, 2010
John F. Huesman (Osgood, Indiana, United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This switch is great. I've been working with computers and networking since the early 90's (anyone else remember Mosaic?), and I've had to deal with a lot of switches that required manually setting every little thing in order to get it to work - and of course every type of router you were connecting the switch to required different settings.
This switch is absolutely plug-n-play. If your broadband (cable, DSL) router is filled up and you need to add another network device, you cannot go wrong with this switch.
The documentation is horrible, perhaps even a bit misleading. In the troubleshooting section, it says something about the switch not being designed to allow more than one computer to access the internet. Well, that's technically true...you can't just have a switch and really do anything with it...but if you have broadband access, you have a router (technically, that box on your desk is a router plus a 4-port switch) so that is already taken care of.
So...here's the details on how to get all your computers, network printers, network storage, game consoles, blu-ray players, etc. to talk to each other and the internet. Be sure to follow these instructions exactly...
1. Turn off all your computers, printers, etc., and the broadband router.
2. Unplug something (anything, it doesn't matter what, but I usually use port 1) from the broadband router.
3. Run a short ethernet cable between the port on the router you just freed up and ANY port on the switch.
4. Plug the thing you just unplugged and everything new into the switch.
5. Plug the switch AC adapter into the wall and the back of the switch.
6. Turn everything back on.
THAT'S IT! How could it get any easier than that?
I think TRENDnet is really missing a selling point here by not stressing how easy this switch is to add to your existing network!
I don't know, and honestly I'm not going to try and measure, how much energy is actually saved by the graduated power sent to the ports based on cable length, but I think it's a nice feature to shut down power to a port if the device is idle for long periods of time.
So far, I can't think of a single bad thing to say about this switch. When I first pulled it out of the box, I thought it was a bit light (even though it is made out of metal and not cheap-o plastic) to stay on the desk when 8 cables are plugged into it...but then I noticed that they even included a square of velcro to attach to the desk and switch so it wouldn't move around.
Summary: if you need to expand the number of ports in your network, buy this switch.
 dead in a few months July 4, 2010
W. Brown
Used in the home theater, so it was on 24x7. Worked with blue ray player and DirectTV quite nice, but only lasted a few months. I'll spend more on the replacement to hopefully get better quality from a linksys, dlink, or netgear. I wasn't needing high performance, but it would be nice to at least get a year out of it.
Nice, Sturdy Network Switch July 3, 2010
J. A. O'Connor (Independence, MO USA)
I was really surprised how nice the materials for this switch were. This thing weighs around a full pound, I was expecting something light and flimsy. This switch does it's job great!
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