Anyone own or have experience with a Netgear FS726TP

[shiner]

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.

 

[skyking]

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.

 

[JackMDS]

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.

 

[cmetz]

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.

 

[JackMDS]

shinerburke do you need a a manged switch for an home installation?

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
shinerburke do you need a a manged switch for an home installation?

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.