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(More customer reviews)I had read a couple of reviews here on Amazon and elsewhere about how the GS105E responds to pings destined to other devices. I really liked the features this switch offers so I went ahead and purchased it. When I received it I connected it up and started pinging "fake" IP addresses and the switch didn't respond with ping replies. I was happy thinking I got a model that had been fixed. I then did a scan of IP addresses in my local subnet. As soon as I pinged the switch, it began to respond to all pings to all other IP addresses. The earliest review I found for this problem was back in March. It is now June and they still haven't released any firmware updates for this switch. To be honest, I don't even know why this switch has an IP address assigned to it anyways. You can't ping anything from the switch and you don't manage the switch with the IP address. You must have your PC (sorry Mac & Linux users) connected to the switch if you want to manage its built-in features. You cannot manage the switch from another network like you would a higher end switch. You also must install WinPcap, Adobe Air, and Netgear's management software to manage this switch. You cannot manage it with telnet or a web browser.
This switch is suppose to have a cable diagnostic feature built into it, but it doesn't. I also purchased the JFS524E switch which is part of Netgear's Unmanaged Plus series. The JFS524E does have this feature. It's pretty cool because you can use it to tell you how long a cable run is. Netgear might be able to add this feature in the future with a firmware update.
I wrote a separate review on the NETGEAR ProSafe 24-Port Fast Ethernet Unmanaged Plus Switch JFS524E if you want to read the differences between the two models. If it wasn't for the ping issue, I would have kept the GS105E.
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