Brand | NETGEAR |
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Series | GS308 |
Item Model Number | GS308-300PAS |
Product Dimensions | 15.8 x 10.21 x 2.59 cm; 390.09 Grams |
Item Dimensions L x W x H | 15.8 x 10.2 x 2.6 centimetres |
Item Weight | 390 g |
Manufacturer | Netgear |
ASIN | B07PFYM5MZ |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | 25 March 2019 |
NETGEAR Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Switch
Price: | $54.71 |
- ETHERNET PORT CONFIGURATION: 8 Gigabit ports
- PLUG-AND-PLAY: Simple set up with no software to install or configuration needed
- VERSATILE MOUNTING OPTIONS: Supports desktop or wall mount placement
- SILENT OPERATION: The fanless design means zero added noise wherever its located, making it ideal for noise-sensitive environments
- PEACE OF MIND WARRANTY – Covered by an industry-leading 3-year limited hardware warranty
- ENERGY EFFICIENT: Designed to optimize power usage lowering its cost to operate. Most models are compliant with IEEE802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet mode.
- BUILT TO LAST: Every NETGEAR Network switch is rigorously tested for reliability, quality, and performance.
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Customer Reviews |
4.8 out of 5 stars |
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Best Sellers Rank |
1,135 in Computers (See Top 100 in Computers)
7 in Network Switches |
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Product description
The NETGEAR 8-port Gigabit unmanaged Switch provides an easy, reliable, and affordable way to expand your network connections in homes and small offices. It is plug-and-play and features a rugged metal case. Features also include Auto-MDI/MDI, LED indicator on Each port, energy-effi¬cient technology, fan less design, auto-negotiation and non-blocking switching architecture.
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Easy, Plug-and-Play SetupSimply plug in your devices. No configuration or software required. |
Energy Efficient DesignEnergy efficient technology provides power savings for your home. |
Backed by 3 Year Limited Product AssurancePlus 90 day technical support 24 hrs/day, 7 days a week. |
Trust the Networking leaderNETGEAR is the brand of choice when it comes to home networking solutions. |
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This is not NETGEAR's fault but the supplier to Amazon is at fault.

By Adrian Green on 6 November 2020

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It is unclear what the problem is, perhaps the switching tables are getting full and causing the switch to crash. Or maybe it does not have enough ram. Either way I do not trust this switch as part of critical infrastructure anymore.
I have since noted that Netgear has now listed the problem on their FAQ indicating that I am not the only one with this problem. I suppose it's a decent switch to sit on your desk if you can unplug it every once in a while. For me, I am away from the building where this switch is active for days at a time. With no remote management (and I have not put it on a smart plug yet....) it causes some grief
I thought I would post some numbers in case anyone was interested. I used two hosts
Host 1:
System: Host: nas Kernel: 4.15.0-42-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Console: tty 3 Distro: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial
Machine: System: Supermicro product: Super Server v: 0123456789 serial: 0123456789
Mobo: Supermicro model: X10SDV-4C-TLN2F v: 2.00 serial: ZM16CS053878
Bios: American Megatrends v: 1.1c date: 10/03/2016
CPU: Quad core Intel Xeon D-1521 (-HT-MCP-) speed/max: 800/2700 MHz
Network: Card-1: Intel Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T driver: ixgbe
IF: eno3 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 0c:c4:7a:9d:92:72
Card-2: Intel Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T driver: ixgbe
IF: eno4 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex
Host 2:
System: Host: desktop Kernel: 4.19.9-arch1-1-ARCH x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Gnome 3.30.2
Distro: Arch Linux 2015.06
Machine: Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: All Series v: N/A serial: N/A
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Z97-WS v: Rev 1.xx serial: 140525546300294 UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends
v: 2403 date: 06/18/2015
CPU: Quad Core: Intel Core i7-4790K type: MT MCP speed: 1663 MHz min/max: 800/4400 MHz
Network: Device-1: Intel Ethernet I218-LM driver: e1000e
IF: eno1 state: down mac: 10:c3:7b:46:d3:a4
Device-2: Aquantia AQC107 NBase-T/IEEE 802.3bz Ethernet [AQtion] driver: atlantic
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 0c:9d:92:b7:5f:21
Device-3: Intel I210 Gigabit Network driver: igb
IF: enp13s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 10:c3:7b:46:d3:a5
IF-ID-1: vboxnet0 state: down mac: 0a:00:27:00:00:00
The network card in the desktop is Asus XG-C100C. All tests were run from the nas with the desktop acting as an iperf server. For the test the 10G interface is .239, the 1G interface is .198. If the 10G interface was being tested the 1G interface was disabled and vice versa. I used 6FT cat 6 cables into the uplink ports
user@nas:~$ iperf -c 192.168.19.239 -t 100
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Client connecting to 192.168.19.239, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
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[ 3] local 192.168.19.96 port 45280 connected with 192.168.19.239 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-100.0 sec 109 GBytes 9.39 Gbits/sec
user@nas:~$ iperf -c 192.168.19.198 -t 100
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Client connecting to 192.168.19.198, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
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[ 3] local 192.168.19.96 port 33772 connected with 192.168.19.198 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-100.0 sec 10.7 GBytes 919 Mbits/sec
user@nas:~$ iperf -c 192.168.19.198 -t 100 -P 10
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Client connecting to 192.168.19.239, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-100.0 sec 907 MBytes 76.1 Mbits/sec
[ 6] 0.0-100.0 sec 845 MBytes 70.9 Mbits/sec
[ 12] 0.0-100.0 sec 771 MBytes 64.7 Mbits/sec
[ 11] 0.0-100.0 sec 1.89 GBytes 162 Mbits/sec
[ 7] 0.0-100.0 sec 903 MBytes 75.7 Mbits/sec
[ 8] 0.0-100.0 sec 1.91 GBytes 164 Mbits/sec
[ 10] 0.0-100.0 sec 879 MBytes 73.7 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 0.0-100.0 sec 922 MBytes 77.3 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 0.0-100.0 sec 1.04 GBytes 89.5 Mbits/sec
[ 9] 0.0-100.1 sec 826 MBytes 69.2 Mbits/sec
[SUM] 0.0-100.1 sec 10.8 GBytes 923 Mbits/sec
user@nas:~$ iperf -c 192.168.19.239 -t 100 -P 10
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Client connecting to 192.168.19.239, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
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[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.0-100.0 sec 5.53 GBytes 475 Mbits/sec
[ 6] 0.0-100.0 sec 7.93 GBytes 681 Mbits/sec
[ 7] 0.0-100.0 sec 2.25 GBytes 193 Mbits/sec
[ 9] 0.0-100.0 sec 3.94 GBytes 338 Mbits/sec
[ 11] 0.0-100.0 sec 7.87 GBytes 676 Mbits/sec
[ 12] 0.0-100.0 sec 4.75 GBytes 408 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 0.0-100.0 sec 1.84 GBytes 158 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 0.0-100.0 sec 1.58 GBytes 136 Mbits/sec
[ 10] 0.0-100.0 sec 3.22 GBytes 276 Mbits/sec
Decent speeds and for a relatively low cost it brings big performance gains. I would have liked more 10gbe ports but the 8 port 10gbe switches are too expensive. For the number of 10gbe devices I have this provided the right cost/performance ratio for me

I have 300mbps up and 10mbps down speeds, and this switch's caps are nowhere near that, so I'm getting full bandwidth of my internet speeds.
TLDR: For those of you that want to expand your ethernet ports and don't care to mess with technical settings, this is the ethernet switch/expander for you.

My only words of caution, or at least notes, is that the power plugs in on the opposite side from the ports. If this is somewhere you're going to be accessing/changing the config a lot, that may be preferable! But I found it a bit annoying for my setup, where I am just leaving it all plugged in for the most part, and there's stuff now sticking out of both sides, limiting the cleanliness of my setup and mounting options.
Also the status lights are on each of the ethernet jacks, so here again if you want to see what's going on you have to position this with the ethernet cables facing you, which can be pretty messy. Vs other switches which have all the ports on the back, but the status lights up front.

Both controllers fed the 10GbE ports of the HF20 and the other ports fed the ESXi cluster of DL380s. I wasn't pushing line speed normally but when vmotioning from the old SAN to the nimble I was hitting close to theoretical limit of the GbE ports, sustained, for hours on end, effectively 100MBPS on ESXi side. Jumbo frames MTU 9000 not a problem. Not bad for a $250 switch, and perfect for this case. We had 50+ production VMs running on this for weeks before swapping in the Arista.
I cannot comment about reliability on this particular unit. But generally I rate this line of Netgear products are very reliable (all is relative, of course.. consider the price range). In practical terms I have dozens of various 8/10 port GbE / PoE switches, some many years old, in somewhat hostile environments and have only had a few ports failure.

But i don't know how to fix it now, and my learning time is limited.
What i find most frustrating these days is that so much has to be done by the purchaser, whatever those issues might be: i wanted a business address, instead of just a website....but i had to go online to find it and that took too much time....then an ad gave me something of interest, but i had to go online....and after doing computer rebooted from an update, i had to go online....what the heck is this about? Easier to work? not really? i can open my old physical address/contact book and find that info in moments.....etc...
So in this case, i, without such knowledge, can now search the web, the netgear community, etc...to fix this seemingly simple issue.
It's similar to a federal government downloading responsibilities, etc...to the state, or province or region....and they will then in turn download to the municipal level...What the heck is this in getting The Job Done? why make it harder?