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Netgear will replace it with a rebuilt one (after you pay for S&H), which also goes bad. First thing that goes bad is the fan. I purchased this two years back, since then it has gone bad multiple times. It has a two year warranty, as soon as the two years are up, Netgear support says sorry, you have to buy a new one. It becomes noisy. Then it becomes intermittent. Can't say that I received a bad piece because multiple copies had similar problems. Not reliable.
This network switch works great but the fan is very loud. I wish there was a way to slow down the fan speed when optimal cooling isn't required. I have it installed in a media panel in a wall. I can hear the fan running in the room on the other side of the wall. I would not buy another one of these just because of the fan noise. Good luck on your puchase.
If you want to replace them, you'll need two 5V 40x10mm fans and a philips head screwdriver. However, it does have two relatively noisy fans.
Gigabit is a huge improvement over 100Mbit, and with this 24 port switch I was able to put enough network drops in each room that I didn't need desktop switches. This switch is solidly built and hasn't had any problems in the year or so it's been installed.
This switch has an internal power supply, and uses a standard IEC 320 connector (the same connector that's on most computer's power supplies). The auto-uplink feature means you don't need to worry about crossover cables, or which port you've plugged your router in to.
And since it's automatic, there's no button on the front of the switch that takes down the network.The lack of a wall wart is nice. These run all the time, and make more sound than your average desktop machine.
I replaced the fans in mine and have not had any trouble with overheating before or since, but I am not currently using all the ports on this switch.
The performance is phenomenal. The majority of our equipment supported gigabit and so we decided it was time to "get in the game". After reading several reviews on this unit, we purchased it. We have had no issue with it since switching over and it just plain works. It took less then 15 minutes to install in our rack and change over to it. All I can say is "wow". I cannot believe that we can obtain that level of speed in network applications for the price we paid. Highly recommended.
So far I've had a good experience with the operation of this unit, but a warning that it has a fairly loud fan. Good, because it keeps the thing nice and cool, but bad if you're planning on putting it on a desk or in a quiet location like a home office. I've got three computers and various devices around me, and the switch is the loudest thing in the office.
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