A little expensive these days (Netgear FS105)

Member Name: AndreBoyle

Product:	Netgear FS105
Date:	04/02/03 (419 review reads)
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Advantages: Small, does the job 100%

Disadvantages: Too pricey these days, Could do with more port.

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 capabilities of an area that's very under-priviledge in terms of data ports in an office. Plug the oe port you've got into the uplink and let this little baby work it's magic under a desk out of sight and mind. Because it's netgear you can be assured it's going to keep on running without any real interaction.

A word to the wise, if you're going to do this use a cable-tie around the devise to hodl the main uplink cable and power cable in their respective ports. This way if it get's knocked over you'll not suddenly loose a section of your network. There's nothing worse than checking a comms problem in a server room and the problems actually 'out in the field'

If you're thinking of getting one of these consider eBay to get a bargain as you can pick-up an equally well serving devise from a re-branding company for less money with more ports. It's good, but there are cheaper equally good products out there.

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