Netgear GS108Ev3 Review and Setup

Thank you so much for the comprehensive video on this managed switch. I'm just now starting to get into managed switches.

David, thank you so much for this tutorial. It was and is really helpful. I am new to Networking Switches and this been a low-budget switch and your explanation took me to a whole different level of understanding so quick. Thanks again!.

Rate limiting is also extremely good EXTREMELY GOOD for gaming

Wow! Thank you for this video, It helps a lot, cheers from Spain!!

man you got the knowledge sharing skill.

The GS308T switch does allow management over HTTPS, in addition to many other features. I have a GS308T at the core and GS308E and two GS305E at the edge. I eliminated all unmanaged switches about 18 months ago when I upgraded to Gigabit for the NAS which I installed then. One annoying thing about Natgear is that different ranges of switches are actually made by different people, and have significantly different management interfaces. There are also minor differences between your switch and mine of the same model; probably different firmware versions.

Thank you

nice tutorial i have also a 1gig internet i hope this switch wil propperly work with iptv watching once i setup when i got it.

I bought it yesterday to shape the traffic in my house together with Opnsense for splitting IoT devices from home computers. Your video helped me a lot however I am still far from understanding it all ;-) Time will tell if I am able to do what I want to do ;-)

Thanks for the video. I have a USB-C dock with power passthrough that creates a broadcast storm when the hub is disconnected from the computer while the Ethernet cable is still connected to the dock. What would you suggest is a good broadcast filtering setting to block the broadcast storm on that port while not affecting normal traffic?

Nice thorough review of the switch. A couple of questions though. In the vlan section (for simplicity lets say you have only 2 vlans, vlan1 and vlan2) the vlan1 would have a network segment of 192.168.1.0/24. This would have been taken from the router's settings. Now that there is also a different vlan (vlan2), would it still be assigned with 192.168.1.0/24 ip addresses (and if yes, then the devices on those vlan2 ports wouldn t be able to communicate with devices on vlan1 because of the physical port separation on which they are connected to even though they belong to the same network segment) or you have to set it to a different segment at the router's side?

Very helpful! Thanks. Wonder if you can help with a question - Any idea why my hard wired windows computer connection to this switch shows that it is connected at 1000mbps in the management software but, after a few days, the internet speed tests results slow right down from about 500mbps (I have fibre connection at 1gig) to about 100mbps? A reboot of the switch sorts this for a while but it then slows again later. Using Cat 5e cable, about 15m in length. Had this problem with a previous non managed switch so its not the switch itself.

I bought this switch to install in my home entertainment system. All I can say is WOW! This is the same switch the high end audio manufacturers use in their $500+ "audiophile" network switches.  Where it made a huge and evident impact was with my Sony 55X800E television and inexpensive Polk S1 sound bar with bass module. The PQ on the Sony was brighter, sharper, colors and blacks immediately improved. Then the sound bar, all of that digital harshness was gone. Not that there was a lot, but it was there, to the point my 80 yo mother asked what I did to the sound.  The sound now has a class A/B amplifier sound to it, very smooth delivery. There was a rough, or harshness to the sound, that is all gone. And then the bass module, we now have nice deep bass. Will it compete with my two SVS SB3000 subs? Of course not. The bass is 100% better, as it now fills the room, where before it was barely noticeable.  I paid $39 on Amazon for this switch, it is $42 today. I ran CAT6 from the router to a TP-Link ER605 V2 Wired Gigabit VPN Router, then a CAT 6 patch cable to the NG 108. CAT 8 to the Roku Ultra box, the BuzzTV Android box and Pi2 Mercury V2 streamer HDMI out to the TV through an inexpensive UGreen HDMI switch. None of the cables I used were expensive, around a few bucks each, none over $10. I probably have around $150 invested in all of this, it was worth every penny.

Thanks for wonderful video. I am facing a problem that when I am creating basic port based VLAN and creating say another VLAN no. 2. The hosts in that VLAN are not able to connect to internet. My Switch is connected to a wifi Asus router in Port no. 1. How to enable internet access to other VLANs ? Does the port where internet access router is coming should be assigned as ALL ?

Thanks for the review. Wondering if this switch supports inter-vlan routing, thanks 😀

We can modify/ change the native vlan on cisco smart switch such as cisco sg250 or CBS350. There is a cisco video tutorial named "Cisco Tech Talk: Changing Default Native VLAN on a CBS350 Switch" Can we change it on netgear switch? I cannot find where the native vlan is on Netgear switch....? I can only find the management vlan on Netgear switch, is this the same as the native vlan on cisco?

Well, I came across a problem while configuring TP-Link SG108E where even when I removed a port from VLAN1, the IP address of that switch was still reachable on that port. It applied even to TRUNK port....i followed your instructions in the video. So, I'm wondering whether you tried testing the Netgear switch that after you removed the ports from VLAN1, the IP address of the switch was not available on that port. Maybe the Netgear switch has similar bug in the firmware.

Thanks for the review. Wondering if this switch supports inter-vlan routing, thanks.

thank youfor the video. Im very new in networks, how to you recommend me to config my smart switch netgear GS305e, its 5 ports and i need to config 4 ports and one be able communicate whit oder ports like a NAS.

This is old, but i can't access the switch using the web browser. It says connection refuse.. Has anybody encounter anything like that? And does anybody has a fix