NETGEAR 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Switch (GS308) - Home Network Hub, Office Ethernet Splitter, Plug-and-Play, Silent Operation, Desktop or Wall Mount

reduced load on wi-fi has significantly boosted speed of devices still on wi-fi. Speed on wired devices is excellent.

Set it up last night works great on my home network I am currently using 10 of the 16 ports with no loss of speed.

This is advertised as supporting gigabit speeds, but comes nowhere close. I will start off by saying I understand there are a lot of components to networking and a lot of things that can potentially go wrong. I am comfortable with network troubleshooting and I feel Ive reasonably narrowed the cause of the problem down to this switch. I have run speedtests on all connected devices: PC, TV, PS5, Xbox Series X and Chromecast with Google TV. On each device I get around 50 Mbps download speed. I have tried different cables (all CAT6) and different ports on the back of the switch with consistently slow results. I have tried each device one at a time with nothing else connected, no change. My home internet is 400 Mbps. When connecting any of these devices to WiFi instead of using this switch, I get within 20 Mbps of the target 400 consistently. Which I would be happy to use permanently if not for the fact that Ive never been able to achieve a stable, interruption-free WiFi connection. The switch provides a more reliable, but MUCH slower connection. The fact that it is advertised as supporting gigabit speeds is one of the main reasons I bought it. I dont need reliability as an alternative to speed, I need both. Very disappointed, will be returning it.

Not very feature rich. The phone app is not worth downloading.

I have had zero issues with this device. It has worked so well I bought 3 more. This has been critical in keeping as many devices off of the wifi as possible. At one point I had 46 devices on our Google wifi. Now I am down to 26. Still to many, but way better than before. And devices that are on these wired switches have 10x the throughput as a wifi connection.

Nothing wrong with the switch, but unlike Netgears press releases and the product description, the GS308 and GS305 do NOT support link aggregation, which was the only reason I bought it. I guess it was too good to be true for such a low priced switch, but I could have gotten an even cheaper switch with the features this one really has had I known that.

Couldnt beat the price..at least at the time I bought it. Does exactly what its supposed to do. Going on 2 years using it. Never one issue.

Very simple and easy to use. Works great and serves its purpose. Set up time was almost non existent.

Bien emballé, livré rapidement, fonctionnel immédiatement!!!

Perfect!... its fantastic product!