Refurb. LINKSYS SE1500-RM 10/100Mbps 5-Port Fast Ethernet Switch - $2.99 AR Shipped @ Newegg.com

Don't see this as a good deal. They had the new asus 5 port green switches FAR a few months back. Already got 2 of them. So why buy non green switches not FAR and refurbished?

Quote from TidalWaveOne : Oh, about 10X faster.

you switch will only run as fast as the lowest device on the LAN. For example if one PC is running 100mb, just putting a gigabit switch is not going to get you gig, you will still be getting 100mb.

Quote from Gentle_Touch : This is kind of obsolete...seems if company should pay customers to keep this, not the other way around.

I agree. This switch is practically useless for me. Every PC/laptop I own at home has a built in gb network card. Transfer speeds will suffer if you use this switch to transfer large files such as movies, music, software, etc.

First off the switch is a refurb. That is a crap shoot. I have had plenty of bad experiences with refurbished network equipment that I stay away from them.

Second it comes to $3 after the rebate. So essentially you will be paying $13 up front and have to wait for the rebate card to come in.

I wouldn't even bother with this useless outdated switch when brand new GB switches routinely show up here for less than $20. Don't waste your time or money on this folks. Eventually you will end up having to replace it with something more up to date.

Thank you OP. Now lets see if I can actually remember to do the rebate this time!

great nice looking paperweight, unless people are addicted to wiring cables.

Dear every tech manufacturer in the world: Stop making 10/100 routers and switches. Just stop it. That is all.

I wonder if its worth paying $3 for a refurbished model with a mail-in rebate instead of buying a new one. Hmmmm.

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If all of your devices almost exclusively just talk to the outside world, then 10/100 is probably just fine. That's probably going to be faster than almost all of you get from your internet connection. the slowdown will not be the router.

If you do a lot of computer-to-computer transfers, live streaming movie files, big data backups that just need to happen 'now'... well, then 10/100 is probably still fast enough for you, but sure, gigabit will probably be faster.

Last, if most of your connections are wireless, then 10/100 will probably still be fine, internal or external. because wireless g (which most of us still have sitting around) is max 54Mbit (22avg), and even wireless n is in practice typically only just over 100 (although ideal conditions may get you up to 600, I have yet to see over 100, 50's more typical)

Rebates are a pain

No reason to buy this, spend a little more for a wifi router. Nowadays, wifi router can handle very high bandwidth unlike the past.

Quote from pug_ster : Don't see this as a good deal. They had the new asus 5 port green switches FAR a few months back. Already got 2 of them. So why buy non green switches not FAR and refurbished?

Because that deal is no longer alive and this one is?

Quote from junoj : you switch will only run as fast as the lowest device on the LAN. For example if one PC is running 100mb, just putting a gigabit switch is not going to get you gig, you will still be getting 100mb.

umm what???

So basically you are saying that if I have 4x gigabit computers and a 100mb computer all on the same network they would all be bottlenecked down to 100mb...

Yeah thats not how it works at all.


edit: also why do these companies make these networking devices with rounded tops. Not stackable friendly at all.

I would like to replace the hulk sized 16 port switch in my living room audio rack, but 5 ports (4 + uplink) won't cut it. So the big blue linksys 16 port stays.

An 8 port would be plenty. Show me an 8 port decent brand switch (linksys/dlink/netgear ... not asus, jizbotel, etc) for under $5 and I will consider. My huge 16 port honker is an eyesore but it works.

to those dissing this deal: this deal is a great oppotunity for those who have run out of ethernet ports on their router and looking to expand with this "switch" for devices only communicating outside to the internet. Its really not bad, I bought this same model refurbished for 10 bucks on Amazon and I was happy.

p.s. What happened to muh gigabit muh giga what? my 4k hdmi gold platinum monster cables? I wanna name my son giga so he could be on the newspaper and make his own company with overpriced cables and peripherals.