Netgear FS105

Netgear kit is amongst the best I can recommend for your home, small business or highly connected campervan. Given where Netgear has come from in the past, it's roots are grounded in some of the best networking developers and distributors I can recommend, it's no wonder they keep churning out good kit. This little switch is no exception to the rule. 5 auto-sensing ports make it enough for a small games LAN, all the while managing to give you one of the ports as an uplink. The uplink port will allows you to extend the devise by pluggin other switches or hubs into to for extra ports. Once good use I've found is to extend the networking ...  Read the complete review

No, no, not like your Switch card or Visa card... You're in the Networking section now :-) Although I'm sure if you're reading this you have SOME idea about networking, I will explain first the basic difference between a switch and a hub (Network experts please forgive the following paragraphs) >>> A hub will usually work at an elementary level, making a verbatim copy of all data it receives on each of its ports to all of its other ports. As you can imagine, for a 10 port hub, this means that 80% of all its output is completely redundant (reaches a destination that simply ignores it) >>> A switch is a LITTLE more intelligent. A ...  Read the complete review