But for its price and free shipping, an unremarkable home grade 5-port gigabit network switch. Besides this mysterious Cisco 5-port desktop switch selling for $6.51-$8 + delivery, this D-Link is the cheapest available and delivered 5-port gigabit switch on staticice.
One year warranty is a disappointment. If you can spare some cash, the metal-cased TP-Link TL-SG105 is a better bet with 5-year warranty.
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Firstly, I don't know why you usually get 48 Mb/s. That's 2.5% of what gigabit Ethernet is capable of (2000 Mb/s, traffic is duplex). Is there something wrong with your devices or are your devices underpowered? Try a LAN speed test with iPerf between two gigabit devices.
Secondly, assuming your devices are working normally, 4-8 Mb/s (let's call it 5 Mb/s) is 0.25% of the bandwidth of gigabit Ethernet and something is definitely wrong with your network. Perhaps you have flaky cables, or perhaps you have a 10 Mb/s background transfer happening on your network and you are seeing the obscure Ethernet-TCP Flow Control conflict? There isn't a rogue device looping the traffic, is there?
Thirdly, if you are sure it is the switch, then I would ask for a refund for reason of the product not working as advertised and specified.
Thanks! i am not very tech savvy. i was talking about my internet download speed. i do have a network over powerline and that works flawlessly. get almost the same speed as connected directly to the router. but the distance is just the next room. when i was using the switch to extend the network, internet speed dropped on all devices connected to the network. tried it with multiple devices and multiple ports but same issue. returned the switch the same day.
still need a switch so open to recommendations.
The technology for unmanaged gigabit Ethernet switches have matured such that functionally one is about as good as another. The switches will be using the few same IC chips to do the work. From you very brief description, I suspect your network problem lies elsewhere and changing to another brand probably will make no difference.
If you have an old modem/router device around, try using its LAN ports (the LAN ports portion of the device is a switch) to test your network config. See if any network savvy friend is willing to help.
Seems like it's just you, through powerline connected to this switch I get almost the same download as if I were connected directly.
(Original DL: 115mbps With powerline (tp-link pa9020p) and this switch: ~113mbps
Got mine from Officeworks in Nov last year for around $20
+1 for a well researched bargain, thanks
OOS and not even 100 clicks! That sold out faster than I expected. Sorry people, stock must have been low to begin with.
goes for $19 at msy. unremarkable price as well
Don't order either of the Cisco items listed above if you're going to expect a switch. They're Cisco Smart Net Total Care warranty packs (for a 5 port switch) :p
Thanks for the info. Weird that the product descriptions don't tell you what they are selling.
I got this the other day from JB for $29. Have to say that i was very disappointed with the product. I usually get 48Mbps, but after connecting to this switch, the speed dropped to avg 4-8 Mpbs. tries multiple devices and locations and got the same result.