Gigabit Switch gone faulty?

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ANDARIAL

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This one
Has been fine for about 18 months with network usage up to 45%,fairly happy with that
Just the other day it dropped to a max of 3% and nothing i have tried will fix it :(
The connection shows connected at 1GB on at least 4 network cards/pc`s
Have tried jumbo frames (various amounts)priority vlan settings.Manual setting of gigabit on any/all cards/pc`s.Nada
with/without firewalls anti virus etc
is it possible for just the Gigabit part in the switch to break but still work?
If i need to get a new switch any recommendations?:)
All cat5e or cat6 cable too
 
Nobody here seems to believe me that these switches are pap. Amazed that you lasted 18 months before it failed!

I have a Linksys SD2008 which I bought to replace yet another terrible Netgear product, and it has been faultless for me :)
 
so it does sound like at least the gigabit part is dead?in your opinion?as it will still transfer but at poor speeds
 
Mine would sync at gigabit speeds but would then only transfer at something slightly above 100mbit speeds. Sounds like yours is the same as mine in that respect :)
 
DRZ said:
Nobody here seems to believe me that these switches are pap. Amazed that you lasted 18 months before it failed!
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Probably becuase they aren't and it's just your bad experience. Mine has worked for 3 years faultlessly as have countless others.
 
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Right pulled the network cards out of all m/c last night ,reinstalled etc.Turned switch off overnight
Got better speeds now,up to 25-30% network usage on gigabit connection
not brilliant but a lot better than 1%
weird,looks like i will not need to be buying a switch just yet :)
Thanks for the advice DRZ will make a note of what switch you recommended for the future
 
Energize said:
Probably becuase they aren't and it's just your bad experience. Mine has worked for 3 years faultlessly as have countless others.
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Not just my bad experience :) 3 friends all had the same issues within a short space of time of buying theirs and looking about on the net at the time when mine was playing up there were many, many other people with the same issues.

These switches are crap enough that vast numbers of people have issues with them and even when they are working fine, they don't have the backplane bandwidth to deal with anything remotely like 5 or 8 gigabit connections at gigabit speeds IME. You get what you pay for and these switches are cheap for a reason.
 
I have to agree that the GS6xx switches are naff. I got a GS608 to replace a GS108 to get jumbo frames support for my N5200 NAS. The only problem was that with JF on it was still slower than the GS108.

After finding that it defaulted to 100mb/s half the time when more than a couple of PCs where accessing data my GS108 went back in!
 
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