Network Switch

[rain in july]

What's a reliable but cheap Network Switch? I have around £30 to spend on one.

[Oshino Shinobu]

If you just need a simple unmanaged switch, pretty much any gigabit switch from a decent company like TPLink or Netgear will do. 

 

I just bought a Netgear Prosafe GS108 for about £25 from PCWorld the other day it works great, so I can recommend that model personally. 

 

[EunSoo]

How many ports are you looking for? I have been using a bunch of these so far and no problems to report of. Build quality is pretty good too:

https://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122610

[foolishlywise]

How many ports? The Netgear ProSafe GS108 (or anything Netgear) is brilliant. Had one working for years - never skipped a beat.

[minibois]

I have a couple D-Link switches (3 5 port switches and 1 8 port switch) and no complaints about them. 

[NoobCase]

6 minutes ago, Minibois said:

I have a couple D-Link switches (3 5 port switches and 1 8 port switch) and no complaints about them. 

Seen cheap D link consumer switches bring down the entire network in a building. Not that they were ever meant to be in that kind og environment, but the small 5 and 8 port Cisco unmanaged gigabit switches that replaced them are way better.

 

been told TP link makes good hardware if you need a cheaper alternatve.

[NotTayyeb]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-GS205-100UKS-Gigabit-Ethernet-Desktop/dp/B00AYRZYG4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1488825630&sr=8-3&keywords=netgear+switch

 

^^ been using that for a while no issues whatsoever for £11, and amazon reviews are pretty darn impressive too lol... as @FoolishlyWise said - anything netgear is brilliant.

[Ralms]

I have a couple of Easy Smart switches from TP-Link and they worked very well on top of being cheap. 

Normally its the same model as a consumer one ending on "E". 

TL-SG108E

The offer a few cool features that a unmanaged switch doesnt such as Vlans, loop control, packet priorization, port priotization, etc

http://www.tp-link.com/us/products/details/cat-41_TL-SG108E.html

34$ on Amazon currently: https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Gigabit-Ethernet-Managed-TL-SG108E/dp/B00K4DS5KU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1488995312&sr=8-1&keywords=TL-SG108E

 

Be carefull that Unmanaged model looks almost the same and has almost the same model number. The "E" at the end is important and is what distinguishes them.