D-Link DGS-1024C 24-Port Gigabit Unmanaged Desktop/Rackmount Switch

Reasonable and cheap Gigabit Router. We have used this as the main switch which connects all the servers and the individual switches from each location. Does the job well,

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worked well for me

A good cost effective switch with gigabit ports. The 3 pin top of the power chord is of 16A so please make appropriate power socket arrangement. Overall a good product.

Great product and good metal bulid quality .also recived on time

Good

It worked good for 2 weeks. After that start malfunctioning. On February 26th it stoped working. I don't know the next step that I should take.

Value for money gigabit unmanaged switch.

Great product. Easy to install & deploy. Simple solution.

All good run one for years not a problem.

I just ordered one of these as part of a project to rack up and centralize my home network. Prior to this I had several switches in my basement daisy chained together. With this new D-Link switch I was able to rack this up with some nifty vertical rack arms and in conjunction with a 24 port patch panel and rack cable organizer get everything very nicely organized.The Amazon description for this switch is out of date. The current version of the product indicates that with the latest power supply it is up to 73% more efficient than similar non green D-link switches. Also worth noting is that the face plate on my unit is a silver color, not the white appearing face plate in the product photos.I connected this switch on my work bench with a Kill-A-Watt power meter and with nothing else connected this 24 port beast is sipping just 3 watts. With five gigabit devices it is using a miserly 7 watts. Even fully loaded, according to the specs this switch will not use more than about 19 watts. The switch has features that will throttle down power consumption based on device connection speed, cable distance and whether a port is active or not. All of this means that you can build out a very robust home network without leaving something running 24X7 that is consuming a lot of power.I was close to ordering the competing Netgear product (JGS524) however the Netgear has two fans in it (noisy and prone to failure) where as this D-Link switch is fanless! This is a big deal, as the fan is often the component that will go out over the long term with a product like this... not to mention the noise you will experience if you are anywhere near the device. The Netgear does have a "lifetime" warranty (and better warranty support) where as the D-Link has a 5 year warranty. With no moving parts, and if hooked up to high quality surge suppression the D-Link box should last for a very long time without problems.Performance with this switch is excellent, I get rocket fast transport between all of my devices. It's worth noting that this is an unmanaged switch so you cannot break your network up into VLANs or do cable diagnostics, etc, with this switch. For its purpose though of providing a super fast home or small office network it is offering a tremendous value. THighly recommend it!

Great gigabit ethernet switch! It works flawlessly. It is surprisingly small yet heavy indicating it is well built. The LEDs are bright. I love D-LINK port status LEDs as they show the connected devices' speed (i.e. amber = 10/100 Mbps vs green = 1000 Mbps) compared to other products that have a separate LED (two per port) to indicate 1000 Mbps. It runs quietly (no fan) and stays cool to the touch. My network had many daisy-chained 5 and 8 port switches. I've replaced them all with this 24-port switch and noticed an immediate improvement in performance on my network due to less store and forward hops. I've rack mounted the unit below my ethernet patch panel and used 1 foot slimrun cat6a cables for a cleaner look. I definitely recommend this product.

I built a new home, and with everything in the entertainment center wanting a network port, decided to wire the house from the ground up. I ended up with 21 cat5e cables, and this is the switch that I decided to use.I used the rack mounting brackets and secured the switch under the basement stairs, and plugged in my network cables before the cable company came with the modem.The basic set up is cable modem to a wireless router in the middle floor, and using only one of the outputs from the router, connect back to the switch, and from this switch to everywhere else.This switch was so easy, the cable company came and hooked up their modem, I plugged in the "modem to router" line that I had already run, and didn't have to do any configuration whatsoever. Didn't even put in the CD Rom that shipped with the switch. It worked right out of the box.I have a 12 and 13 year old that X-Box and Computer simultaneously, while the 3 year old watches a streaming movie from netflix, and Directv is even hooked in to this switch for the whole home set up. I can't speak to reliability yet, but it is fast, silent, and breeze to hook up.