
Easy setup No Fuss Affordable



i like that if one of my pcs is asleep, the switchport led goes orange. when the pc wakes, green gigabit led activates. feels solid, no complaints.

Anything less than a functional switch at these speeds would get zero eggs lol

The MS305 (pay attention to the model number when purchasing) is a fine addition to a home network, especially with moving moderately large amounts of data between devices (pictures, streaming, archives) internally or via the Internet.

I love the price and flexibility of this. I bought 4: one for the "public" network, one for the cluster communications network, and one for the storage area network, and one for the IPMI network. I have tested with VLAN, teaming... all worked great. All in the context of this HW/SW: * 1 node running a Windows Server Essential 2012 R2 as Domain Controller / DNS / Backups for everything * 3 "cluster" nodes * 1 running Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 with 4 4TB WD Red drives and 2 SSDs as write cache I have run Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, 20012 R2, 2014, and 2016 CTP3 in standalone and failover cluster scenarios on the 3 nodes. I have also run Ubuntu Server 14.02 LTS running Apache Cassandra on the cluster nodes with local storage nodes. It just worked flawlessly: first time, every time. And you can beat the price, particularly supporting these higher end features so well.


I tend toward NetGear switches because they are reliable. This is a good desktop switch - does what you need it to do. Trivial point, but I do like the rubber footings that come with it so you can stack it on top of other stuff - no scratching. The lifetime warranty and 24/7 support is great, but I've never had to use either and I've been buying NetGear for 10+ years from level 3, smart switches, and basic ones like this.

Flawless, worked as expected. Silent, and solid. getting 50 MB/s vs the 9 MB/s before.

Provides power Looks Good Feels Solid

* Nice compact form factor * Included power adapter option is nice * Even nicer is being able to power it off PoE - one less wire/plug socket to deal with * Integrates well with the UniFi Network app, showing what devices are connected to it

good price effective functionality


-Whisper quite -Many Features -Web GUI or phone app to manage it -You have to know what your doing or at least read the manual.

It just works. This is a great switch, rackmountable, and the warranty is unbeatable. I bought this when there was a rebate for it on top of a sale, but it is well worth the price without it.

Works as advertised.


I really like this switch. It has all the great management features you would want, the GUI makes sense, VLANs work as expected, it has POE, and it's got a great slim form factor for wall mounting and getting it out of the way. Comes with the screws necessary to wall mount as well.
