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Netgear FS605 Platinum Series 5 Port 10/100 Unmanaged Switch | 
 enlarge | Brand: NetGear
Category: CE
Buy New: £15.99
New (20) Used (1) from £15.99
Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 4848
Platform: Windows
Media: Electronics
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.1
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6.7 x 3.3
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of the product.
MPN: FS605UK
Model: FS605UK
UPC: 606449023787
EAN: 0606449023787
ASIN: B000087H93
Release Date: January 8, 2002
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Hang on - your network will soar when it's hooked up to NETGEAR's FS605! This powerful plug-and-play switch connects at 10 or 100 Mbps and makes it easy to link as many as five computers or peripherals to your Ethernet network. You'll experience maximum performance for 10 or 100 Mbps devices with five ports that automatically sense the correct speed while Auto Uplink on the ports adjusts for the different types of Ethernet cables. The FS605's sleek case has lights on the front for easy monitoring. Installat...
Amazon.co.uk Review
If you're setting up a network, you are going to need a switch to sit at the centre of your network amd direct communications between computers. Netgear's Platinum Series 5 Port 10/100 Switch FS605 is a five-port switch, so you can connect up to five computers. It supports fast Ethernet, running at 100 Mbps, but is also compatible with the slower Ethernet standard at 10 Mbps. A switch is a device to which all computers in a network or section of a network send their data. A switch works out which computer should receive the data and sends it out to just that port. This is different from a hub, which directs everything it receives to all available ports, leaving it up to the receiving computers to work out if the data is intended for them. It shouldn't be hard to see that a switch is a lot quicker than a hub. All ports on a switch have the potential to run at the full speed of the network to which they're connected. In a hub, the top speed of any port is the speed of the network divided by the number of ports in the hub. There's also a limit to the number of hubs you can connect together to extend a network--there's no such limit when connecting switches. The FS605, about the size of a Pocket PC or portable CD drive, has a set of six LEDs on its front edge. The first shows when the power from the separate mains power pack is connected, while the other five show when individual ports in the switch are active. They shine yellow for an Ethernet connection and green for a fast Ethernet one, and flash as data passes through them. You can position this Netgear switch horizontally on the desktop or vertically using the stand provided or wall-mounting. With all recent versions of Windows, all the software you need to set up a network is built into the operating system and no extra programs are needed or supplied by Netgear. Should you need to connect the FS605 to another switch to extend your network, you don't need to worry about using special cables or designating one of the ports as an uplink between the two switches. This device is intelligent enough to work it out itself and any of the five ports will automatically switch to an uplink mode as required. --Simon Williams
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Piece of cake September 24, 2008
Chris Hutchinson (UK)
Take it out the box, plug in a cable from your router, power it up and you've got 4 extra inputs into your network. Great price. Looks fine and flashes to let you know it's doing it's thing. What more could you want!
Seamess, straightforward and simple September 14, 2008
BigJohnD (Glannau Mersi, Lloegr)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This must be simplest way possible to add four more ports to your network. It is a matter of plugging everything in and switching on.
There's nothing else to say really - four more devices added in as long as it takes to take it out of the box and connect everything - no setup, no IPAddress or MAC address, no password. It's the definitive plug and go.
I have two PCs, a print server and a WAP on mine all working as they should.
Nice one, Netgear.
Easy setup & Very reliable February 17, 2008
slug360uk (Yorkshire, England)
Very easy to set up and looks great and is very small so it is easy to hide away (anoying green and orange flashing numbers) otherwise a great buy if you need more network ports
Netgear - solid January 1, 2008
G. WILLIAMS (UK)
This kit does exactly what you need with no fuss. Hook up 4 machines with whatever network cable comes to hand (crossover, straight...whatever!) and it works. Hooked up 4 Xbox for 16 player action and it handled it fine. I wouldn't go to anyone but netgear for my networking stuff.
 not for the novice users September 8, 2005
Andrew Houghton
2 out of 31 found this review helpful
all is ok to set-up and install untill it comes to opening the routers ports, such as to play online games, allow programs to connect to the internet. If you are a newbie to computers, try a speedtouch router, there alot easier to deal with. This router can be good, as long as you know how to use it and know about opening ports, etc.
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