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What are you looking to do with it?  While it does have vlans, its not very "full" featured if your looking to do more with it.  Doesn't seem to have any snmp support.  Nor any way to send logs, or even for that matter set the time for logs.  No netflow, etc.

 

So if what your looking for is just some gig ports with the ability to vlan them.  Then looks like it will do that, but if your wanting to play with stuff a bit fancier not so much.

 

I have a gs108e v3 model  - and it does what I needed it to do in my av cabinet.  Very disappointed with no ability to monitor it via snmp, etc.  But I got it for like 30$ after rebate ;)

 

Lacks any sort of ipv6 support as well.  So if your wanting to manage it via ipv6 your going to need to look elsewhere.  Its a bottom of the barrel sort of switch for vlan support.  While you can do a port span on it, and has some basic igmp snooping.  Talking basic stuff!  I don't even see the ability to do private vlans and if your wanting to do dynamic assigned vlans.. Nope..

 

But as a budget switch with the ability to vlan then yeah its fine for that.  They mention "network monitoring" what they mean is you can look at the specifics of an interface for errors and amount of traffic.  But you can not monitor these ports via snmp, etc.

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For example this is their monitoring page.. That is from my gs108e.

What is your price range?  Yeah there are much better switches out there, but prob a bit over that price point.  Which why I ask what do you plan on doing with it.

 

I will for sure allow you to use vlans.  Is it going to be your core switch or just some switch your putting in a av cabinet or closet or room to provide ports?  What sort of devices will you be connecting to it?  All of your devices?

 

If my sg300 blew up, I would prob want to get a sg350 or sg500..  But the price is bit compared price point your looking at, but you can find a 10 port for sg300 for 180 and the sg350 for 200.  While I like the unifi stuff, and that might be a direction for you to go if your using their AP and thinking about any of their other hardware like router or camera's.  I use enterprise switches every single day, I like something at home that is in line with that, but still home budget friendly.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Cisco-SG300-10-10-port-Gigabit-SRW2008-K9-NA/dp/B0041ORN6U

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HYA36SG

 

If you need higher port density price goes up sure..  To be honest I hoping don't need to replace for a bit, since with the ratification of 802.3bz I think I will wait so I can play with 2.5 and 5 gig ;)  I would hope the price point is going to be way better than the 10gig stuff.

 

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/09/5gbps-ethernet-standard-details-8023bz/

 

So all comes down to what you want to do with the switch, do you really need 16 ports?

 

 

 

 

13 hours ago, T3X4S said:

Are you just wanting something to mess with ?  THen get something more robust.

Hehehe - Messing with the feature set of that switch will last all of about 5 minutes ;)

8 hours ago, BudMan said:

 

Hehehe - Messing with the feature set of that switch will last all of about 5 minutes ;)

before or after you figure out you can't do anything with vlans other than create them...followed by getting upset because you really didn't understand vlans and what is needed for them to communicate prior to purchase. 

 

 

hehe - I am using multiple vlans on my gs108ev3 without any issues.  The setup of them is a bit odd, but they work.. The interface is not very good that is for sure..  Be so much easier if just had a cli..

 

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I would make sure your using advanced mode and tagging (802.1q)  But yeah I am not sure I would call it the most friendly switch for introduction to vlans.

2 hours ago, BudMan said:

hehe - I am using multiple vlans on my gs108ev3 without any issues.  The setup of them is a bit odd, but they work.. The interface is not very good that is for sure..  Be so much easier if just had a cli..

 

vlans.jpg

 

I would make sure your using advanced mode and tagging (802.1q)  But yeah I am not sure I would call it the most friendly switch for introduction to vlans.

Sheesh - almost like an afterthought.

Netgear was about to release this product, then 10 minutes before it was sent to production, some engineer went "oh crap I forgot to do the GUI for the vLANs" and knocked it out in 10 minutes.

2 hours ago, BudMan said:

hehe - I am using multiple vlans on my gs108ev3 without any issues.  The setup of them is a bit odd, but they work.. The interface is not very good that is for sure..  Be so much easier if just had a cli..

 

vlans.jpg

 

I would make sure your using advanced mode and tagging (802.1q)  But yeah I am not sure I would call it the most friendly switch for introduction to vlans.

When you are using an outside source to do your routing, sure. But not exactly friendly when you expect intra vlan routing to work as is, out of the box ;)...or for that matter understanding you.need a router capable of 802.1q

Take a look at this unit.  https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-T1600G-28TS-TL-SG2424-JetStream-Snooping/dp/B017R6F0VI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475697933&sr=8-1&keywords=sg2424

 

Its 24 ports, with vlan, ipv6, fully managed, and not much more expensive that what you're looking at.

15 hours ago, Kelxin said:

Take a look at this unit.  https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-T1600G-28TS-TL-SG2424-JetStream-Snooping/dp/B017R6F0VI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475697933&sr=8-1&keywords=sg2424

 

Its 24 ports, with vlan, ipv6, fully managed, and not much more expensive that what you're looking at.

thanks :) i will take a look at that 

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