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expiredphoinix | Staff posted Jun 8, 2025 7:14 AM

Netgear 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Smart Managed Plus Switch

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Amazon has Netgear 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Smart Managed Plus Switch (GS308E) on sale for $24.99. Shipping is free with Prime or on $35+ orders.

B&H Photo Video has Netgear 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Smart Managed Plus Switch (GS308E) on sale for $24.99. Shipping is free on $49+ orders.

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  • 8 Gigabit Ethernet ports
  • Plus software with easy-to-use interface offers basic managed capabilities to configure, secure, and monitor your network
  • Supports desktop or wall mount placement
  • Industry-leading 5-year limited hardware warranty
  • Energy efficient design compliant with IEEE802.3az

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Amazon has Netgear 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Smart Managed Plus Switch (GS308E) on sale for $24.99. Shipping is free with Prime or on $35+ orders.

B&H Photo Video has Netgear 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Smart Managed Plus Switch (GS308E) on sale for $24.99. Shipping is free on $49+ orders.

Thanks to Deal Hunter phoinix for sharing this deal.

Product Details:
  • 8 Gigabit Ethernet ports
  • Plus software with easy-to-use interface offers basic managed capabilities to configure, secure, and monitor your network
  • Supports desktop or wall mount placement
  • Industry-leading 5-year limited hardware warranty
  • Energy efficient design compliant with IEEE802.3az

Editor's Notes

Written by StrawMan86 | Staff
  • About this Store:
  • Additional Information:
    • This offer matches previous Frontpage deals, most recently in May.

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Written by phoinix | Staff

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Quote from Elpee :
Wish it were a 2.5G switch.
In fact, I'm looking for a 2.5G switch for 4K movies but not so sure if with no-name or lesser-known brands available on Amazon, I'm concerning several key factors: reliability, build quality, performance, support, and potential risks. Any inputs?
Thanks.
If you are talking about streaming 4k movies over the internet, this won't help you at all. If you are talking about streaming 4k movies off a personal media server on your LAN, this is unnecessary.
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Jun 8, 2025 6:45 PM
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Quote from Elpee :
Wish it were a 2.5G switch.
In fact, I'm looking for a 2.5G switch for 4K movies but not so sure if with no-name or lesser-known brands available on Amazon, I'm concerning several key factors: reliability, build quality, performance, support, and potential risks. Any inputs?
Thanks.
100Mbps is more than enough from streaming from internet. 1 Gbps is more than enough to stream high quality 4k from your NAS.
You only need 2.5 for large file transfer.
You can edit directly from NAS if you have 10Gbps to 100Gbps.
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JayhawkDealsJun 8, 2025 8:16 PM
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Quote from Elpee :
Wish it were a 2.5G switch.
In fact, I'm looking for a 2.5G switch for 4K movies but not so sure if with no-name or lesser-known brands available on Amazon, I'm concerning several key factors: reliability, build quality, performance, support, and potential risks. Any inputs?
Thanks.
A UHD Bluray is at MOST 144 Mbps. I'd say you're fine at 1Gb. Unless you're doing a ton of local streams to different users/devices I suppose, but I'm guessing that's not the case.

In my experience, the vast majority of folks who upgrade beyond 1Gb for their LAN and/or internet are doing so needlessly.

If you insist, this TPL for $70 would work just fine:

https://a.co/d/i8eRXFw
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Jun 8, 2025 10:17 PM
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Stevey.Jun 8, 2025 10:17 PM
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Quote from Elpee :
Wish it were a 2.5G switch.
In fact, I'm looking for a 2.5G switch for 4K movies but not so sure if with no-name or lesser-known brands available on Amazon, I'm concerning several key factors: reliability, build quality, performance, support, and potential risks. Any inputs?
Thanks.
Ubiquiti flex mini 2.5, $49. Like others have said, gigabit is enough bandwidth for 4k movie streaming.
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monkeybizJun 8, 2025 10:32 PM
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I admit I was clueless for a long time.. I just thought switches pump a gig if labeled gigabit. Not the case unless managed like this. Max of 100Mbps is sufficient for xbox downloads and Dolby Vision and Atmos.
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Jun 8, 2025 11:10 PM
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lleung1980Jun 8, 2025 11:10 PM
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Is this a good price? I haven't bought one for a while. I recall they were around 10 to 15 when I bought my last one a few years ago.

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NeatCable281Jun 8, 2025 11:36 PM
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Quote from lleung1980 :
Is this a good price? I haven't bought one for a while. I recall they were around 10 to 15 when I bought my last one a few years ago.
Likely you bought an unmanaged switch
Jun 9, 2025 3:07 AM
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iceage2007Jun 9, 2025 3:07 AM
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What does "Smart Manage" mean? Can I turn on/off each port individually? If yes, how? TIA
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Quote from Elpee :
Wish it were a 2.5G switch.
In fact, I'm looking for a 2.5G switch for 4K movies but not so sure if with no-name or lesser-known brands available on Amazon, I'm concerning several key factors: reliability, build quality, performance, support, and potential risks. Any inputs?
Thanks.
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digitalgimpusJun 9, 2025 5:06 AM
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Quote from JayhawkDeals :
A UHD Bluray is at MOST 144 Mbps. I'd say you're fine at 1Gb. Unless you're doing a ton of local streams to different users/devices I suppose, but I'm guessing that's not the case.

In my experience, the vast majority of folks who upgrade beyond 1Gb for their LAN and/or internet are doing so needlessly.

If you insist, this TPL for $70 would work just fine:

https://a.co/d/i8eRXFw
Agreed. And I say this as someone with a 10G network. Very useful when your storage and compute nodes are separate hardware and using DAC cables to interconnect them.

But being real: My Nvidia shield isn't going to get any faster, no matter what quality content goes over them. The overwhelming majority of data doesn't benefit.

But I can have route traffic between multiple VM's on different VLAN's for different purposes, and a 10G pipe is so vast I don't feel any slowdowns elsewhere. Reality is disk and CPU are the bigger bottlenecks now, but I'm not upgrading the firewall CPU just yet as I don't have a need.
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Frank_NittyJun 9, 2025 5:21 AM
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Thanks OP, in for one.
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multiuseemailJun 9, 2025 7:46 PM
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Quote from iceage2007 :
What does "Smart Manage" mean? Can I turn on/off each port individually? If yes, how? TIA
There is likely a webpage or app that has some controls per port. Generally, "Smart Manage" isn't as robust (also see: fewer options) as the "full managed" counterparts.

if you google netgear smart managed it should tell you what the differences are.
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psharkauburnJun 11, 2025 2:25 AM
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Quote from iceage2007 :
What does "Smart Manage" mean? Can I turn on/off each port individually? If yes, how? TIA
Directions are on page 30 in the manual (https://www.downloads.netgear.com..._UM_EN.pdf). Gist is, login to the management interface, select the port of interest and click edit, under the speed settings change it to *disabled* if you wanted to turn it off.

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justyeJun 22, 2025 9:45 PM
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How does this compared to the TP-Link TL-SG108E?

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