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I use various members of the SRW family both professionally and at home. I've used these switches for more than 4 years now. The SRW2008 is a solid managed gigabit switch which is targed to the high end of the home user market and low end of the small business market. The managed switch allows professional like VLAN and QOS configurations and can be used in fully redundant multiple switch configurations using spanning tree to avoid loop induced packet storms. It has a nice set of features at a bargin of a price.Howver, this switch (and the others in this family) suffer from two annoying issues. First, the user interface is based on Internet Explorer and does not support other web browsers. If you don't have windows, you won't be able to configure this switch. They provide a "telnet" and "ssh" ability, but it's of little use once you have the switch up on your network. Getting started with this switch reuquires a serial port to get the thing setup on your network. A lot of computers today don't have serial ports so this can be an issue. Getting these switches configured is a lot more difficult than others I've used, but you only do this once. Second, although this switch was built by "cisco" it is NOT a Cisco. The hardware is not as reliable and the software is not as bullet proof as the cisco name would suggest. When these switches work, they are great. But I've seen a much higher failure rate and some glaring software bugs with these switches. The software is also not fully integrated with the higher end Cisco switches running the full IOS. I would recommend this switch for high end home users or a small business.Read full review
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Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I own this and a POE version and they do not disappoint. I needed a fanless switch that could do link aggregation for my ESX lab and home theater setup.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
I needed a more reliable switch for our network and learned about this small Cisco switch. It is rock solid and so dependable. I wish I had come across it earlier.
Very good product !! Always use products from this manufacturer. I will buy more products CISCO. OK!!
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