D-Link DGS 108 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch Unmanaged, Plug & Play Network Splitter Silent Fanless Metal Desktop/Wall Mount QoS, IEEE 802.3az Energy Saving Limited Lifetime Protection

This is a review of the DGS-105 switch. I'm happy with this switch and the price, performance and features. This switch is connected to my router's built-in switch on port 5 of the DGS-105. On port 1 I have my office PC and on port 2 I have connected my NAS storage server. I was concerned primarily when buying a switch that it be able to support a fast switch fabric so I can do multiple things simultaneously with no bottlenecks. I have tested the DGS-105 and I am able to get full throughput to my NAS of 115 MB/s read and write while my PC is simultaneously watching iTunes 4K streaming or Twitch. My NAS works with Dynamic DNS so I can access my files while on travel or out of the house and the switch works fine for this purpose and I tested to make sure this works. Works on the DGS-105. I used some adhesive foam tape to tape this to a shelf in my office because the cables coming out of the front can make it tweak or move on the shelf. I was mostly concerned with concurrent transfers when buying this and it works great on my home network with a really easy installation and good performance. If you're looking for a good switch for a small area of your home or office I would suggest the DGS-105 because it can handle lots of traffic with no seeming throughput issues. I'm happy with this purchase, the quality and the price. Hope this review helps you out. If you're wondering I'm using the Synology DiskStation DS918+ and this switch can support most of the features I use on the NAS. Works with DS file on Android and streaming to my AppleTV over Samba with no issues.

Nice. Plug and play. Works well. Solid design and feel. Perfect small size. Thank you.

I bought two of these at separate times. They work just fine for streaming video, downloading/uploading files etc. I haven't noticed any downgrade in internet speed, seems to keep all my devices connected quite happily. The ethernet for my main desktop computer runs through two of them and the connection is perfect. They are happy to supply multiple devices with internet simultaneously, I haven't seen any noticeable difference in connection speed. The power cord is a decent length, just be sure there is an outlet close by. There are green lights indicating power and connection. Lights can go yellow or red for a weak/no connection. If a cable is not connected light is off. The device is quite small and discrete enough to keep on a desk or tabletop. It does put off some heat, but unit does stay quite cool to the touch. They work fantastic for any home application. Very well built and sturdy.Just keep in mind that your IN ethernet cable takes up one spot so you are left with only 4 outputs. There is no delineation between an input and an output, they all use the same ports.

This is a really decent 8 port switch. Never thought I would need to add one of these to my setup until recently when we ran into an issue with my kids downstairs computer lab was flooded from the city sewer. Kinda sucked bad but we was able to save and protect all the computers before everything was ruined. But all I had was an old 8 port from switch from 1999 which only ran at a max of 10mbps which allowed them to do school work until this came. Now it has no issues at all. Talk about lucky I held on to some old stuff for just incase times. lol... This is really a great switch. I haven't noticed any issues with it at all. I rewired a few things and decided to run my network server through it just to see how it handles and its been great plus we have 3 pc's running through it too. It barely gets warm with all that data passing through it. Hopefully this helps anyone with a purchase looking at one.

This works well, but can cause issues with addressing on certain things. I had to put my modem in bridge mode (disables wifi within the modem) to use an A/C wireless router. Since I have the Comcast triple play, they required me to purchase a modem that is compatible for the phone service even though I don't use it. There are only 2 choices, both of which are junk for wifi (mine is only N) so I needed this to run other things without the internal modem wifi. My nvr works fine off of it, but only at 100 meg per second. My home computer will work fine full speed (I have 150mbps) off of this, but I can't directly access my nvr from computer, but live view does work. Now, another issue I have encountered is both my magic jacks won't work from the outlet ports from this, I am guessing that it has to see an address. I had to connect them to my router in order for them to work. A nightmare of cables, connection woes, but this did help to get things working far better than before. Web addressing is a horrible mess of issues that are extremely hard to solve, and it's still not 100% the way it should be, but workable. Comcast wants to charge me 10.00 a month lease for their modem, forget that waste of money, but the lack of options for the phone service on the availability of purchase options (only 2 to chose from, and Arris brand) really stinks. If this modem ever fails, they will provision whatever modem I buy if they want to keep me as a customer, even if it don't have phone access.