Netgear GS switch range unreliable. GS724T. Supplier wants to send them back.

[DCUK6]

Have sever Netgear GS series witches and each has stability issues.

 

Issues from ports with unstable up and down speeds, switches that randomly drop the uplink connection, firmware updates always crash the switch when complete, even got support to go through it.

 

 

Utter pants.

 

Now Novatech who supplied them to us is saying that they would have to send back to Netgear. Yeah, our network will run great without our switches. Brilliant.

 

Anyone else have issues with these?

 

Wont be going for Netgear again, TP-Link would do better.

[pete]

We had a few GS724Ts die on us. Netgear replaced them directly (first with same model, later on with a different model) and had no problems with us taking a few days to swap them out, test them and then ship the faulty ones back.

 

They're underpowered POS with insufficient grunt for the featureset they advertise. Have a look at: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/wireless-networks/61986-netgear-problem.html#post888415 if you're using STP.

[DCUK6]

Thanks pete. Have now disabled STP, shame but we've only got a couple of 24's.

 

I wonder if STP is the reason why the uplink on one of the 48 goes down every so often.