NETGEAR JGS524-200EUS ProSAFE 24-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch

Very solid, well made switch, in heavy, substantial metal case. Very convenient design with ports to the front right hand side and activity LEDs to the left. Supplied with a solid metal bracket for mounting in almost every imaginable position. Supplied with two mains cables - one UK and one EU plug. Power supply built-in, so no awkward separate power module. The solid metal case makes the installation less likely to move around with the pull of the cables. Plastic boxes keep moving around.I have four 4Tb video servers supplying HD TV throughout my house, plus an assortment of Android TV boxes, Ethernet printers, laptops and PCs. This switch works flawlessly even when multiple servers are feeding several TVs with HDTV. I can simultaneously transfer between servers at speeds approaching 100Mb/s - about 20% faster than my previous configuration of a D-Link switch which simply expanded my router Ethernet ports. My new configuration has ALL my wired connections going to the Netgear switch with a single cable going to my router. Highly successful! And a few spare ports which are easily accessible from the front.Identical style, colour and finish to my Netgear ProSafe Dual-WAN router, so looks good when co-located. I powered it up, connected and it was functioning perfectly within a couple of minutes. Been on 24/7 since without a problem.

Works great. We just extended our house and needed to go from an Netgear 8 port 1Gbps switch to a 24 port equivalent and this Netgear fit the bill perfectly. I'm still using the 8 port version to separate out the HDMI over Ethernet traffic and then I'm running all my other network points over the 24-port version including new IoT devices such as the TV's, a Blu-ray player, games consoles and the fridge, I've also widened the wireless network by adding a second Netgear WAP120 in the new part of the house. I've got Virgin Media Vivid 200Mbps broadband which is also connected via the switch and my speed tests on the machines capable of reaching that speed all do so with no issue when testing, even over the wireless access points. The 24-port switch supports all of this without any issues, it just quietly sits in the loft next to the patch panel and does its job, maintenance free.Update: Jan 2020 - This switch is still behaving itself just over 4 years after I purchased and installed it. Since I bought this we've added 4 Amazon Echo devices, a 4K fire stick, new smart hifi home theater system and a heap of smart bulbs around the home. The switch has quietly gone on doing its job 24/7 for all this time as the heart of a very reliable home network supporting every device we've thrown at it.

This is a historical review - a few years ago, we were very lucky to be able to gut most of the house that we moved into and on that basis, it was always going to be CAT5 cabled room to room, with as much as I could get away with. Initially, I used 5 or 8 port Netgear switches. Once the final sections of the house were done, it was time to finish off and make everything embedded. At this point, I purchased this device. I think it was about three years ago. Once installed, it has not required a further intervention from me again. I have not re-set it (other that power cuts or intentional mains down time) either. It does exactly what it is designed to do. I use Netgear switches at work as well and they are equally as robust.

Original version of this lasted for 10 years and apart from having to replace the PSU it worked extremely well, but it became unreliable in the last month. Took a while to diagnose the problem because it didn't just die. It's supposed to have lifetime warranty, but (a) I got no response whatsoever to my email from NetGear, and (b) if it's your primary network switch, who can afford the time delay of sending it away ? Forget the warranty. I decided that 10 years is good enough and replaced it with the same again. The screw-mount holes are in exactly the same positions, so it went straight into the same place, and it really is plug-and-play. The new PSU output is ony 1A, and it remains to be seen how long it will last.

I purchased this for one of my customers who had just had some new offices built for a car showroom. Light network usage so can’t comment on the how it operates under load but I’ve had no negative feedback and it was installed over 6 months ago.Overall I was happy with the switch; nice metal casing and quiet operation. Be aware that this switch is not rack mountable.I’ve recently written another review for a switch that I purchased for myself and gave a few (hopefully) helpful tips to any potential buyers who aren’t clued up on switch technology. I’ll paste the same below and hopefully someone will find it useful:Opt for an unmanaged switch - 99% of home users do not need a managed switch. If you don’t know what one is, then you don’t need it.However many ports you think you need, get more. If you are going to use 4 ports, get an 8 port switch. You are not only future proofing your network, also remember you will use one port for connecting the switch to your router.Opt for the gigabit switch over 100mb, you may not need it currently if you don’t have gb devices, but you are future proofing your home network. Also, gigabit gives significant speed increases when utilised.