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Summary: 6 our of 12 EZNET-8SW overheated
Review: I'm actually writing about the EZNET-8SW, which appears to be slightly different than the EZ-8SW. I purchased 12 of these switches to expand networks in our building. 6 of the 12 units have a horrible heat problem. They all get hot to touch, but 6 of them lock up regularly. Cycling the power helps for a couple hours, but then it locks up all over again. This has been an ongoing problem and unless they changed the EZ-8SW a whole lot, I can't see it being much different with the heat problem. SMC hasn't wanted to swap out the units. Each time I get on the phone with tech support, they pretty say, "well, is it working now?" to which I say, yeah, but in a couple hours, it won't. "Well, if it's working now, I can't really issue an RMA." Give me a break! I got a D-Link DSS-8+ and it never even gets hot and never locks up.
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Summary: 6 our of 12 EZNET-8SW overheated
Review: I'm actually writing about the EZNET-8SW, which appears to be slightly different than the EZ-8SW. I purchased 12 of these switches to expand networks in our building. 6 of the 12 units have a horrible heat problem. They all get hot to touch, but 6 of them lock up regularly. Cycling the power helps for a couple hours, but then it locks up all over again. This has been an ongoing problem and unless they changed the EZ-8SW a whole lot, I can't see it being much different with the heat problem. SMC hasn't wanted to swap out the units. Each time I get on the phone with tech support, they pretty say, "well, is it working now?" to which I say, yeah, but in a couple hours, it won't. "Well, if it's working now, I can't really issue an RMA." Give me a break! I got a D-Link DSS-8+ and it never even gets hot and never locks up.
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Summary: Better Quality - Same Price
Review: Not much to say about the functionality - plug it in and it goes to work BUT, the thing that made me happy was it has a real, metal case AND a conventional computer style, three prong plug! A little switch with the quality of a big one.
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Summary: SMC EZ-8SW - good 10/100 switch, reasonable price
Review: The SMC EZ-8SW is a non-managed 10/100 switch. You give it power and plug ethernet cable into the RJ45 jacks, and it sends stuff to the right places, at up to 100 Bps each way, on each port. Mine's been doing that, reliably, for several months. Before that, I was using a 5-port SMC EZ switch, and it likewise delivered 2x100 Bps per port with no trouble for about a year, but I ran out of ports, so I got the 8-port version. This model uses normal AC -- no transformer block to try to fit, awkwardly, somewhere; it has a grounded plug, so you'll need a three-prong outlet within 4 feet of the switch location. The switch looks and feels solid, largely because of the all-metal case. As for speed ... within the local network, files under a megabyte seem to move instantaneously, larger files move at about 10Mb/sec. In ordinary home or small office use, this switch won't be a bottleneck. About the only thing I don't like is that the cable jacks are on the front of the unit, so with my setup the status lights are partly obscured by cables. Good unit, dead simple to use, completely reliable so far.
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Summary: SMC EZ-8SW - good 10/100 switch, reasonable price
Review: The SMC EZ-8SW is a non-managed 10/100 switch. You give it power and plug ethernet cable into the RJ45 jacks, and it sends stuff to the right places, at up to 100 Bps each way, on each port. Mine's been doing that, reliably, for several months. Before that, I was using a 5-port SMC EZ switch, and it likewise delivered 2x100 Bps per port with no trouble for about a year, but I ran out of ports, so I got the 8-port version. This model uses normal AC -- no transformer block to try to fit, awkwardly, somewhere; it has a grounded plug, so you'll need a three-prong outlet within 4 feet of the switch location. The switch looks and feels solid, largely because of the all-metal case. As for speed ... within the local network, files under a megabyte seem to move instantaneously, larger files move at about 10Mb/sec. In ordinary home or small office use, this switch won't be a bottleneck. About the only thing I don't like is that the cable jacks are on the front of the unit, so with my setup the status lights are partly obscured by cables. Good unit, dead simple to use, completely reliable so far.
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