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Anyone own or have experience with a Netgear FS726TP

shiner

shiner

Lifer
Looking at this for a friend who is wiring his parent's new house and needs a 24 port switch capable of poE on a few ports. I was looking around and ran across the FS726TP and it seems to fit what he needs at a reasonable price point.

Reviews seem generally positive, but I would like to hear from some of the folks here before I recommend the switch.

The other switch I was looking at is the Linksys SRW224P but I think the noise would be an issue.
 
If I am building a network, I tend to go gigabit on the main switch, and get one of these cheap trendnet switches for the POE. It has 8 ports, 4 of them POE.
My friends in thre security camera biz use them without any problems, and if they get nuked, you are out much less monies. Cascade it off a Gigabit switch.
Say what you will, but I have had no problems with the cheap dell gigabit switches.
269 for 24 port switch, all gigabit. Two SFP for adding fiber.
The total as I have it will be well under $400 including shipping.
 
It depends on how many POE you need and if part of the Network would benefit from Giga.

There are 24 ports POE Switches but they go above $500.

If 4 POEs are good enough you can go with the TrendNet in the above post + a TrendNet 16ports Giga ($158).

Altogether you would have 15 Giga ports + 4 x 100Mb/sec. POE + 3 x 100Mb/sec.

It is 24 ports but you would lose two on the interconnection.

Total price would be about $200.

TrendNet switches are good but tend to get Hot so it needs to be in a relatively ventilated area.

 
shinerburke, I have one. It seems decent enough, it works. Web-only UI, somewhat annoying, but it gets the job done. This switch actually also has SNMP support, but good luck getting a vendor MIB out of Netgear (their support folks can't even spell MIB, even several escalations up).

Fan noise is annoying.

It's a good value, no obvious competitors. You'd have to buy up or down to make an altenative.
 
Originally posted by: JackMDS
shinerburke do you need a a manged switch for an home installation?
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to be honest I don't know exactly what he is needing. He just came to me because I work in IT, however I'm a server guy and not a network guru.

I know he wants something fairly simple so that it will be easy to maintain for his parents.
 
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