This is the cheapest 5 port gigabit switch I could find, there seems to be reasonable stock availability.
D-Link DGS-1005A 5-Port Gigabit Switch $9.98 (Was $19.95) + Delivery ($0 C&C) @ EB Games
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xitrapharlax on 07/11/2021 - 15:18 ebgames.com.au (4240 clicks)
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Hmm not much stock
Worth paying $7 for shipping?
I’d probably switch to another product and route my money else where.
Ba-dum-tsh
Still the cheapest gigabit switch I could find, and I needed one anyway, so ordered.
I just from ebay and used ebay best price Guarantee. Got $23 voucher valid for 1 month and free shipping (ebay plus).
@SJ50: Woah! The price guarantee is new for me!
I had a bit of leftover EB gift card credit to use so delivery was worth it, but this changes a lot. Cheers for the heads up.@theguyrules: I had ebay gift card laying around which I finally used. I hope that I will use this new voucher during black friday.
@SJ50: Good one.
But eBay stated that the difference will include in the shipping cost. So basically you maybe paying [full price -5%] for the item + shipping + a eBay voucher.
It maybe worth 5% and if you have eBay vouchers to use. Or maybe 48hrs after you bought it.
$15 shipping for me would killed this deal.
Still, I maybe wrong.@toommy: I have eBay plus so shipping is free from eBay. For EBgames I said I will be click and collect so no shipping there.
@SJ50: I just tried this. This is what he told me:
Raj - 9:46 AM
I have checked the details and here I am able to see that the item on EB price is at the discounted price and current price of the item $9.98 and under eBay Best price Guarantee the item on the other website should be with out any discounts. However here in this case you can check for the similar items on the other approved website wherein the item is listed with out any discounts on it.So I guess I'll make haste to cancel my ebay order for $35.
there seems to be reasonable stock availability.
Unless you live in a capital city!
It was available to me, when it was posted, at several stores in Western Sydney.
Gotta get in early.
Dang. I need an 8 port
Dang, i need PoE ports…
Just buy POE injectors from aliexpress n use on normal gigabit switch, injectors/splitters send power down cable on non poe switch to power cameras phones etc..
Injectors cheap as 8 port last looked $13 to 20au
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/8-POE-Ports-12-48V-Injector-Swit…
Injectors are cumbersome and take up a lot of space. Much better having PoE ports on your switch.
@daleroy1234: Yup n you will pay dearly for that privilege unless your happy with 10/100 poe switch relatively cheap. And remember you have too add up all those connected devices sucking poe power, most can't handle too many devices unless large power supply and or are POE +
Probably didn't really need it but available at only one out of 7 stores near me, couldn't resist.
What do you guys use this for? Sorry, I am a bit behind with technology, only know about router and modem, but dunno what is the usage of this gigaport
Old megabit was 100mbps
New megabit is 1000mbpsNew gigabit is 1000mbps…
Sorry, half sleeping at the moment…
your internet router probably has 4 ports on the back labelled "LAN"? For plugging network cables going to all your computers or other network devices. Generally this will be used for being able to connect more computers/devices to the network.
For me, I have one of these in the back of the cabinet with the XBox, Playstation, TV, and Apple TV - those 4 things plug into it, and the 5th port has a cable going to another bigger one like this that connects to the router, and all the other computers and things on our home network.
Because wifi will never compete with a hard-wired network, sure it'll stream etc ok but for raw throughput cable all the way.
It's a network switch, it's job is pretty much to just turn 1 ethernet port into several more.
A powerboard is to electricity as a switch is to data.
Giga just means more data
Caboolture, Noosaville, Gladstone in QLD…
had two both of them routinely couldnt forward traffic above 40-150mbits would randomly spike drop etc.
What kind of cable do you have between the switch and your devices? If it’s Cat5e then you’ll never get better than that because this is close to the maximum it’ll handle. It’s possible to squeeze more through it, but requires a special setup and hella expensive shielded cabling.
Another possibility is because the advertised ‘1Gbps’ is a total aggregate of the backplane. In plain English, this means it will only route up to a combined total of 1Gbps across all the ports, not 1Gbps per each port (which would be a combined total of 5Gbps on the backplane). This is normal in cheaper networking gear and is not false advertising, it’s just the way the chipsets are designed and how efficient they are. Considering the inherent maximum traffic ceiling for unshielded twisted-pair Ethernet is 90%, then deduct 10-15% packet loss due to noise and collisions (these basic chipsets are not terribly efficient at error-correction), and that’s probably why you regularly top out at 150Mbps even if you used top-quality Cat6 network cables or better.
Another possibility is because the advertised ‘1Gbps’ is a total aggregate of the backplane. This is normal in cheaper networking gear.
Incorrect. Backplanes are designed to adequately handle the aggregate throughput of the ports. The datasheet showed this switch has a 10Gbits/s backplane. No network equipment that I know of advertised the backplane throughput as the (per-port) protocol speed and vice versa.
regularly top out at 150Mbps
By your own estimate, a (very bad) 75% efficient Gigabit connection (after line noise and protocol overhead) would still transfer data at 750Mbits/s, or 75MBytes/s. A Gigabit connection that maxes out at 150Mbits/s (15% efficient Gigabit) is abnormal by any measure.
A bad chipset that choked on heavy traffic could explain the low throughput. Conflict between TCP and 802.3x flow controls is another possibility.
I bought it not expecting much, just a cheap tiny switch to plug below my tv at the holiday house to connect some peripherals like foxtel, an android tv box etc. I found I was always buffering or dropping packets, so I eventually connected a unifi access point and saw wifi speed tests of as low as 5-15mbits a sec, (ie. 1 megabyte a sec)
swapped out the switch with the other d-link switch ( bought 2 of them at the same because they were so cheap) and had a similar issue. better off spending 40 bucks buying a tp link switch that runs at a gigabit than randomly troubleshooting it.
I may just got a bad batch, I thought of it as a switch to connect low bandwidth devices like printers etc. but had annoying random issues like ip address not being assigned, showing up as offline etc.
This is a better buy
TP Link - TL-SG105S $30 bucks any day of the week.
https://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=TL-SG105&spos=…
I've had the same happen to the 2 I have - a power cycle fixes it but there's a reason they're so cheap I reckon.
The only benefit these smaller switches have is noise, no need to rack mount
These run off 5V/1A.
Have successfully used USB-A to DC barrel hack cables to power themAwesome cheers for the headsup
Bargain! I bought one of these from EB a few months back for $20 and it's great. Well worth it at this price!
Got a price beat from OfficeWorks by ringing their main number. Thanks OP
Which store? Trying the Alexandria NSW, the lowest is $10 + delivery $15
No stock in SA, but still good for a price match!
Been using this and very happy with it!
I'm still using my good old TP link gigabit switch works great for linking up EOPs
Ordered one. Postage is pretty cheap.
Ordered 2, got sent 1, and getting a refund for the other. So $17.93 for one with the shipping. Not that good a price. I wish they'd just refunded both and shipping.
That's classic EB Games unfortunately.
Looks like a great find. $38 at OW, $20 online