Prosafe 16 Port 10/100 Desktop Switch with 8 Port Poe FS116P | List Price: $315.00
Discount Price: $177.44
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Brand: Netgear
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: NETGEAR lifetime warranty
Features: - Netgear
- Switch 16-PRT 10/100+8-PRT POE
Silent and functional [Posted on 2007-09-27]
The high point of this switch is that it's PoE but silent. Ours is powering 6 toshiba IP telephone handsets. It did have one glitch in the first week where it needed to be power cycled (indicators on the switch indicated a fault for all ports.) but since then, it's been on for two months without a problem.
The low: PoE is only available on the first 8 ports. and there is no management of this switch: no QoS, no remote monitoring, &c. I've heard the specs don't provide for full PoE wattage to each of the 8 ports either, but it's fine for 8 of our IP handsets.
Proceed with caution [Posted on 2008-10-06]
Fundamentally I like this switch (I own two of them), however I suggest you think twice before you commit to it. While it's great that they're small and fanless, BOTH of them developed several 'dead' POE ports. The ethernet function continued to work, but the POE function failed on several ports. Instead of 8 POE / 8 regular ports, I only had 6 POE and 10 regular ports.
YES, the manufacturer has a LIFETIME warranty, but they also have a $20 FEE for advance-replacements, plus you have to pay your own shipping. For me, that has translated into $60 on (2) warranty replacements for my 2 switches. What's the alternative to paying this fee? You can't just shut down your network for 3 weeks while you wait for the replacement! According to support there is no 'Second Generation' version that fixes the problem so I expect that the replacements will also fail.
Too bad.
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