D-Link DGS-108/B 8-Port Gigabit Unmanaged Metal Desktop Switch 10/100/1000 Mbit/s - UK Version black DGS-108/B

These small, low power consumption 2.5G switches are just brilliant., Plugged in my four 2.5G devices (Synology NAS, Mac Studio M2 Ultra and two more of these 2.5G switches elsewhere in the house). Will plug the 2.5G port from wireless WiFi7 AP's in as well when I've bought the wireless AP. Sustained 2.5Gbps performance. Fit and forget.High build quality, made from metal and they run cool and silently with no fans. The three I bought on offer have been up and running now a solid three months as a 2.5G backbone to my home network without an itch. A lot of none brand switches out there for much less money but I'd rather buy something quality that will just work. Unreliable networking gear can be extremely intermittent and hard to trace faults with.You can use these with standard based Cat5E cables, so no special 10G cables are needed. Brilliant.EDIT: 15Feb25. Still going strong and not one issue with them. They have never gone back to the £99.99 I paid for mine despite me having a camelcamelcamel price watch on them. They will do eventually. I hope so because I need another two. Incredible that in 2025 I now have almost 120 IP devices on my network in my home in a house of five! CCTV cameras, TV, dishwasher, washing machine, home alarm, Hive, Smart Lighting, TVs, Sky, additional sky boxes, Alexa, Homepods and everyones phones and iPads and computers!!!! It soon adds up the sheer number of devices we have these days. A switch failure and the lot is off and is extremely disruptive with us all working remote!!!

Small, compact, quiet. Perfect switch for 2 serious gamers and plenty of ports for a family of 4. Hooked router to switch through house via 30m cat 8 cable. No issues at all, no drop in speed. Switch is excellent value for money.

I’ve had this switch for about 4 weeks now and so far it has worked flawlessly. It’s a good quality 2.5GB Ethernet switch from a well known brand. The build quality seems great - all metal chassis. It does run a little hot - it’s warm to the touch but not alarmingly so. From my research this is quite common for multigig switches, but can be a little concerning when you’re used to previous generation gigabit switches which never seemed to get warm. It’s reassuring to know that the D-Link model comes with a 5 year warranty which you can register on their website after purchase. It works with 2.5GB, 1GB, 100MB and 10MB devices. I'm using it with my Mac Studio, an HP ZBook and Dell Latitude laptop, all of which are getting the full 2.5GB speeds via built-in Ethernet ports (or an adapter for the Dell). It works fine with older devices too, like my Brother Laser printer which is only 100MB. On macOS devices I did have a few issues in that the Mac kept dropping the network connection every few minutes and this appears to be a bug in macOS (latest version of Sonoma 14.5). The fix was to manually configure the macOS Ethernet settings (in System Settings > Ethernet > Details > Hardware) and change configure from “automatically” to “manually” and set to 2.5GB Full Duplex (without enabling energy-efficient-ethernet). You can also disable AVB/EAV but that doesn’t seem to be necessary. This seems to be a bug with the built-in Ethernet port on some Macs and macOS and EEE (Energy Efficient Ethernet) which the D-Link switch supports. I didn’t see the same issue when using a USB-C based Ethernet adapter with another Mac running the same version of macOS — probably because the USB-C adapter doesn’t support EEE (I tested with the Satechi USB-C 2.5GB Ethernet Adapter). My only criticism of the switch is that I wish the power adapter port was on the same side as the Ethernet ports, so that all cables could be neatly kept out of the way. It would also be great if D-Link offered a lifetime warranty on the switch here in the U.K., like they do in other countries such as the U.S.A. Other than that, I’m very happy with the switch and would definitely recommend.

Excellent. Does the job just fine and dandy.

Our home has some built in ethernet but in a few places there is a concentaion of equipment and we needed some extra local ethernet points. We use these in a few places (studio, lounge and home office) and they link back to a central switch and to the router, they are small and tuck out of the way and have two keyhole shaped screw mounting holes makoing them easy to position (the lounge is free standing behind the DVD player, studio is on the wall where the photo editing section is, and the office mounted under the desk). I get full speed when transferring data from my PC to the NAS (which are on different switches) and this is frequently while streaming HD movied across different connections.Installation is simple, connect power, connect to your router, wall point or whatever and then plug in whatever needs connecting - no setup or anything.

So we've got a 2.5Gbps modem, 2.5Gbps router and a 2.5Gbps gaming PC hooked up to the living room TV with one cable between the router and living room TV. With this, it allows the 2.5Gbps pass through to the PC and provides 1Gbps connectivity to the other devices which only support 100Mbps or 1Gbps.Obviously if you use all the devices at once, you'll share the available bandwidth from the 2.5Gbps, but it's certainly better than feeding loads of cables or sharing one cable between multiple devices by moving the cable around.The compromise is worth it here.