Does everything a budget gigabit switch should do
Bought this since I'd run out of switch ports on my small office network. Works perfectly and being unmanaged needs no installation or set-up (short of plugging it in to an available socket and attaching your patch leads). The switch autosenses 10/100/1000 connections and indicates the connection speed on its LED display. My two main computers are aging Pentium4s with UDMA6/ATA133 controllers/disks. My structured cabling is 100 Mbit CAT5 (not CAT5E). I bought a gigabit switch for future proofing but didn't expect any significant performance improvement because of storage bottlenecks and cabling limitations. I was pleasantly surprised when the switch's LEDs reported it was game to try gigabit throughput. Qcheck reports a throughput of 727Mbps although the 1kB data limit seems too low for a reliable test at this speed. More importantly, I'm getting a real world throughput of 250 - 350 Mbps (disk to disk). In use, file transfers have speeded up noticeably and my network backups (30...
Green vs Non Green Version
When I ordered my one back in 2009 I also ended up with the non green version.
Today I got myself the "Green" version which is white in colour and has a more compact switchmode power supply (5 volts output).
I have a pretty accurate wattmeter and have compared the two models power consumption.
With all five ports used, 4 at 1Gb and 1 at 100Megs
Old Model = 6.5 watts
New Model = 3.2 watts
So both models are pretty good and compared to the average Sky box that eats 20 watts in standby both are pretty green.
Lastly, I would say the white one looks nicer.
Great Piece of Equipment - But Not From This Seller
These are very good at expanding your existing routers. I have bought a few D-Link ones over the last 5 years and they have given really good service. Only one stopped working after 24/7 constant use, so I can't complain. I'm now standardising on these newer (Green) models, to try and reduce electricity consumption and general wear and tear on the box itself. My only problem was that I've had to return the box to the seller 'FindMemory' because they are sending out the older (non-Green) boxes, in spite of the title, picture and description all referring to the newer model. I guess they don't actually have any green ones, because they preferred to give me my money back, rather than replace it with the advertised model!
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