NETGEAR PoE Switch 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Plus Network
NETGEAR PoE Switch 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Plus Network Switch (GS308EPP) – with 8 x PoE+ @ 123W, Desktop or Wall Mou
| Weight: | 350 g |
| Dimensions: | 15.8 x 10.1 x 2.7 cm; 350 Grams |
| Brand: | NETGEAR |
| Model: | GS308EPP-100UKS |
| Colour: | 8 Port Managed | 8 x PoE+ 123W |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | Netgear |
| Dimensions: | 15.8 x 10.1 x 2.7 cm; 350 Grams |
Great little switch with POE and basic management options.
We bought ours for use with Dante and so far they have been solid and have worked with everything we have thrown at them.
Work right out of the box and if you do need to make changes, the menus are easy to navigate and are well laid out.
I recently converted my garage into an office and needed a small hub to run my network.
I have always used Netgear stuff as it is reliable and well made.
This is very easy to set up and I love the PoE which means for several devices I don’t need a separate power supply for them (phone, Access Point etc)
Recommended
It’s easy to setup & I can connect my important devices to broadband with Ethernet cable like SkyQ Box to Virgin Media Hub 3 & other devices
Small enough to install anywhere and with enough power for a collection of cameras and access points. Good user interface for any configuration tweaks and usual net gear level of quality.
Not a lot to say against this little PoE switch, it works really well with a GS105PE as a satellite PoE powered hub and has a nice UI for setting up ports and VLANs.
Some niggles
Ling aggregation did not work with a Zyxel XGS-1210
It doesn’t have multi-gigabit ports.
Bought this air use at work and it has not disappointed. Main reason was to be able to program multiple IP phones using one network port and this has worked every time it’s used.
It is metal so sturdy in its construction. Non managed so plug and play (really is) and able to handle 4 phones at a time with ease and capacity for more if required.
Also, if you find that you are reaching max PoE over a small number of ports due to your device power draw, you can upgrade the power supply without having to purchase a new switch. Great option that.
If looking for a PoE switch of this size would recommend this one no problem.
Easy setup… just power the unit up, plug in your equipment and go.
I wanted this for two PoE pieces of equipment so it is under used.
I would recommend as I have had no issues with performance or equipment connected.
Tony
Used this switch with my patch panel for home routing cat 6 and also it powered the ubiquity lite 6 ap without any problems.
Can’t complain with that, does what’s it’s mean to do and is light in weight and makes zero noise.
Well what can I say. Works straight out of the box. Plug, play and forget. Used it to power (POE) three off Unifi access points. Worked a treat. Have found these Netgear switches to be reliable and robust. Used a 24 way to network the ethernet in my house and used this one to power Externally mounted, under eaves of house WiFi Access points to cover WiFi in the garden areas.
Having already owned two standard Netgear Gigabit switches for ten years or more, this was an easy purchase. Needed to upgrade to POE to power Raspberry Pi machines via POE hats, works a treat. I have no doubt this unit will function just as well and for years to come like the existing switches . Quality products.
All in all, there’s not a lot to say – the switch does its job, and I never have to think about it. Which is good enough.
(Not sure why Amazon has a “Wi-Fi signal” category on the review for this device given it is a switch and doesn’t do wifi)
Needed additional ports, and some PoE….perfect for the job
After recently getting a new Teams desk phone from the office (Working from home everyday at the moment). I was limited on power outlets available. The phone will use POE and I purchased a so called POE hub that just did not work.
After sending it back I found this one and it worked out of the box with no issues at all.
Been working fine since purchase.
Not only can you power the usual higher-end network equipment such as the unifi ac wifi adapter, but I’ve since discovered the cheap poe splitters available on amazon. I’ve now removed a bunch of power cables from my formerly messy network kit, and instead, have everything running from POE with a single cable.
I’ve converted pretty much all my smart home hubs (including SmartThings Hub v2), raspberry pis, and fingboxes.
I’ve freed up about 8 power sockets and removed a lot of clutter.
POE switches are the future, I’m now a convert. And this gigabit 8-port POE switch by netgear is the cheapest around, yet still very well made and very reliable.
I’ve decided to delay my reviews simply because a quick review may not reflect the operation of the device so in short very happy with purchase, delivery and the product itself. Thank you.
Technically it say 8 port but it turn out to be 7 port because 1 of the port is used by your Router cable for input of cat 5 cable so you only have 7 ports left to expand
Plugged the switch in, plugged in my UniFi Nano HD – powered up no problem. Plugged in my UniFi cloud key – powered up no problem. All working flawlessly since. Would highly recommend. Just be aware this does NOT support 24v passive POE for the AP AC Lite.
This is a third purchase of the same device and am extremely pleased with these switches. Two have been running for over 3-4 years now and not a single issue. I also installed 3 24/48 port for my client and same story – they just work. I have not tested PoE yet as I have no device to do it.
Great to enable plugging in all the ethernet devices when there were not enough in the Hub, plugged everything in to the switch and one lead from the switch to the Hub.
I bought this to power some wireless access points. As always with Netgear, I got a consistent, reliable connection at a good price. Simply plug it in and you’re good to go. An all metal housing makes this a quality piece of equipment that will stand the test of time delivering gigabit speeds to connected devices.
I use this to connect my CCTV cameras to. In can only power 4 cameras but that is all I have so no problems. The switch stays quite cool and there is no noise from it.
I would have preferred if it was a managed switch but for this application that doesn’t really matter.
Great quality switch. Being unmanaged there is no setup involved and the PoE ports just work as expected. I have PoE cameras and several other devices connected to this switch all running smoothly on a gigabit network. No complaints at all.
This is awesome and exactly as described, love that it has POE and Gigabit – only drawback is tha tonly 4 ports of8 are PoE, but I only have 1 thing that need PoE anyway!
Been using it without issue for over 6 months now.
PoE works well, easy to see the state of each port with coloured LEDs.
I got it at a good price but worth full retail.
Great product for home networking. 8 ports is enough and the PoE means that I could wire two access points into the network without needing to plug them into a separate power source. Furthermore, I have the remaining two POE ports to expand my network by adding two IP cameras for security in the future:)
What more can you say about an 8 port PoE switch. It’s sending my internet to everywhere I want it and also powering some PoE cctv cameras and a PoE WiFi repeater.
I stuck with a trusted name in Netgear and they haven’t failed to disappoint. Lets hope this lasts for years to come
Love Netgear stuff. Been working in I.T. for over 25 years and I’ve never had a Netgear product fail on me. Purchased this to cater for a couple of IP handsets so the PoE appealed, if anything to reduce the need for power packs. Works a dream and delivers upto 1Gb speeds. Great for a small home LAB or network.
Having a netgear smart switch and web managed switch, I bought this for some poe devices. It does the job but I wish I had gone for the gs108p instead.
Great little switch, solid metal body, completely silent, it just works. Netgear used to have a bit of reputation for cheap plasticky tat, but in recent years they’ve produced some really good quality kit for good prices. I also have the PoE model of this switch which is equally excellent.
The NETGEAR GS308P-100UKS 8-Port Gigabit Switch with 4-Port PoE is a superb switch. I have had many switches and Netgear make consistently good quality switches. This 8 port switch is no exception.
Featuring a metal body it’s compact and small so can fit in many place. One thing to note this switch is finless which is a big bonus. However the power supply brick is quite large so I suspect that is how they’ve made this finless by moving more of the heat generating power deliver out of the switch. However they’ve done it its great.
The switch is unmanaged and features 8 ports. 4 are PoE which is why I bought it. The PoE ports can supply 15.4 watts per channel or a max of 53w across all four channels which means you couldn’t run all four ports at their max so consider your power requirements. Mine is driving 3 Hikvision IP cameras and works perfectly. Overall bandwidth capability is 16GB which is important and more than enough for the home or a soho environment. I think I will also be hooking my AP up to it.
Durable housing, finless design and superb performance across the board whilst being plugged and play makes this a winner!
Very solid device for extending your number of LAN ports. Good manufacturer, agree with all of the reviews made previously. Great having PoE options, works instantly out of the box – What more could you want?
Very happy with this network switch. I’m using it to power two IP cameras, and it has worked flawlessly. The gigabit speed ensures data can be transferred at good speed between supported devices.
Ideal inexpensive desktop unmanaged switch with PoE for those devices that require it.
Normal Netgear minimalistic (and eco-friendly) packaging. The switch has an external power supply and is non-rack mountable. Powers Slicecom PoE VoIP phones without issue.
Attains full duplex gigabit bandwidth on all 8 ports, tested using large and small files.
Not much else to say really, other than it’s pretty much faultless.
Aim Of Project – High resolution CCTV data streams are very large, so I wanted to keep the camera feeds inside Cat 6 network cables to avoid bogging down the WiFi. As some of my CCTV cameras are of the POE type, I also wanted to take the opportunity to eliminate the need to run a separate power lead to the cameras sited in the areas more challenging to get to.
This switch is a very easy to work with and is a great value gigabit upgrade for a home network, or for use in my application to connect CCTV cameras. No configuration, no port mapping, no setup. I just plugged my CCTV cameras with POE into any of the POE labelled 4 ports and they came to life, a couple of none-POE cameras plugged into any of the other 4 ports and they burst into life as well. I plugged in CAT 6 cables running to an Apple Airport Extreme router, also the Desktop Mac and a very fast Cat 6 CCTV network was up and running without hitch.
Tip – I set unique fixed internal IP addresses (eg: 10.0.1.67, 10.0.1.68 etc etc) on the cameras and the router just saw them through the switch and routed them automatically regardless of port numbers etc. It really is that simple.
The switch is very compact and neat, all the Ethernet sockets and power socket at the rear are as they should be with green power and connection LEDs along the front. The LEDs flicker to show data transfer but they DON’T indicate the speed of each connection (100/1000 Mbps) by a colour change, so you may need to check your other hardware and cables to make sure you’re getting gigabit speed where you should.
The unit only gets slightly warm when busy, it says 3.64W is the maximum power and it meets the IEEE standard for energy efficiency. This cool running means there’s no need for vent slots which is good if you want to put it in the sort of dusty places routers and switches often end up in – but it’s small and neat enough to stay out on the desk if needed.
The network has been running for just over 3 months without issue and with all CCTV traffic inside the Cat 6 circuit, the performance of my WiFi network has been unaffected and consistent.
If you’re looking for a Netgear PoE switch in this kind of price range, you will be comparing 3 switches; approximate prices at June 2016 included for guidance:
~60 This switch, which is completely unmanaged but otherwise identical to the more expensive GS108PE
~75 NETGEAR GS108PE-300EUS ProSAFE 8 Port Gigabit Web Managed (Plus) Ethernet Switch with 4-Port PoE , ‘plus’ web managed version; identical spec to the unmanaged version, but with addition of web interface – I was unimpressed with this switch, see below or my full review here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3P3VLFVU5UGX6/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
~100 NETGEAR GS110TP-200EUS ProSAFE 8 Port Gigabit PoE Smart Switch which is fully managed: (this has PoE on all 8 ports, but still has the same overall 53W limit for PoE so if you are using, say, 12W IP cameras you will still only be able to run 4 before you run into the limit).
I’m not comparing it against non-Netgear switches as I can’t find anything else in the same price range that’s actually a reasonable comparison. The non-Netgear ones are either substantially more expensive, or have known compatibility issues or are unable to supply the full 15.4W PoE power meaning some IP cameras won’t work.
There’s no fan on this switch, so it’s silent. I have not had any compatibility issues at all with the PoE, which just works. The LEDs are clear.
There is a 3 year warranty on the switch itself, and 2 years on the power supply. Spare power supplies (48V @ 1.25A) seem to be hard to get hold of just now, but will presumably be readily available by the time the warranty expires.
Many people might consider paying the ~15 to upgrade to the “plus (web managed)” version of this switch. Anyone considering that should note that the PoE support for that model (GS108PEv3) is NOT managed – you cannot see or control the PoE status via the management web site or app, nor can you restart the PoE part of the switch. The management CPU is also poorly architected and becomes very slow if you have a reasonable amount of port 80 (HTTP) traffic passing through the switch – eg. to a PoE IP camera! (If you might need advanced features like VLANs or QoS, or just want to remotely and very slowly see the port status [excluding the PoE status], then the upgrade would be worthwhile.)