Can network ports on a switch glitch/malfunction?

Soogs

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I’ve got a net gear 8 port gb switch that works fine apart from one or 2 ports 1&8 which for some reason drop to 100mbs after a device is rebooted. Removing and reinserting the cable will get a GB connection.
I’ve tried new cables and it’s the same.
Moving the devices to another port works fine so I’m sure it’s not the cables.
Can ports defect over time? It’s an unmanaged switch maybe the gs108
 
Yes, seen many switches do this over the years, even had some where the led indication lights have shifted one port to the left :D

Once they start doing anything odd, I throw them away.
 
If you're the original purchaser of the switch and you can find the receipt it might be covered by Netgear's warranty still
 
Caged said:
If you're the original purchaser of the switch and you can find the receipt it might be covered by Netgear's warranty still
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It might be over 10 years old now. Defo had it 8+ years and the receipt is long gone haha

looks like I’ll have to replace it at some point but only using a few ports on it at the moment so I’ll hold off for now.

any suggestions on what’s good these days?

cheers all
 
Netgears ‘lifetime’ warranty has a nasty habit of meaning different things in different parts of the world. In terms of what is decent, it’s almost impossible to buy a bad unmanaged gigabit switch in this day and age, TP Link are cheap, Netgear aren’t much more, it’s really not worth paying a premium for a specific brand in this segment of the market. If you want PoE or managed then it’s a different story.
 
Soogs said:
It might be over 10 years old now.
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I've found quite commonly with older switches - not sure if it still happens with more recent ones as I've not had them that long - the capacitors start to go after ~10 years and then all kinds of weird glitchy things can happen - some of it quite remote to the switch itself - until the switch is replaced.

Had quite a weird one with that with 2 identical Belkin switches bought at the same time - one was under heavy use the other was mostly kept in storage as a backup - after ~10 years was getting malfunctions - narrowed it down to the switch and swapped it out for the spare - similar results - swapped it out for another switch and all fine - opening up the Belkins both had swollen capacitors despite very different levels of usage.
 
whats peoples opinion on the
TP-Link LS108G
NETGEAR GS208
NETGEAR GS308

is there any real advantage for a metal case in a home environment?

for the most part, there isn't a very large volume of data flowing from point to points and once in a while I'll move a few TB's around when I have an epiphany (messing around with my NAS/external drives and VM's)
 
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