I bought 3 of the 10927 gigabit switches to replace ethernet switches in my home network. Performance wise, I have seen a significant improvement. Granted, my testing wasn't very sophisticated, but with my old ethernet switches, it took about 3 minutes to transfer 2Gb of files between my macbook pro and my macmini. When connected with the gigabit switches, the same set of files transferred in less than 30 seconds. That's roughly 66 Mb/s, which is plenty fast for my needs.



And as a bonus, I was able to get jumbo frames configured. Prior to delivery, I chatted with a monoprice tech support rep who told me that this switch would not support jumbo frames. I was curious to know if that was really the case. So, after configuring jumbo frames on my macbook pro and Mac mini, and connecting them through the switch, I was able to transfer data using jumbo frames. As you can see from the ping test data below, prior to configuration, the first ping of a 4550 frame was not successful. After configuring, the second ping of a 4550 frame was successful. My actual network setting is 4500. I found higher settings actually took more time to transfer, not sure why that's the case, but 4500 seemed to be the sweet spot for my set-up. In my limited testing, I found the jumbo frames to be a marginal improvement over default settings for gigabit. Nonetheless, if jumbo frames is a requirement of yours, this switch can handle it. It would be nice if monoprice would confirm this, and add it to the list of features for this switch.



Overall, I am very pleased with this product's performance, and at this price, it is quite a value.



*****Ping Test Results*****

Neds-MacBook-Pro:~ Ned$ ping -D -s 4450 172.16.1.2

PING 172.16.1.2 (172.16.1.2): 4450 data bytes

ping: sendto: Message too long

ping: sendto: Message too long

Request timeout for icmp_seq 0

ping: sendto: Message too long

Request timeout for icmp_seq 1



Neds-MacBook-Pro:~ Ned$ ping -D -s 4450 172.16.1.2

PING 172.16.1.2 (172.16.1.2): 4450 data bytes

4458 bytes from 172.16.1.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.698 ms

4458 bytes from 172.16.1.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.921 ms



If you got this far, thanks for reading my review.

PROS: Price

Jumbo frame support (although not documented by monoprice)

CONS: Not a big deal to me, but the LEDs don't change color based on connection speed.

No problems so far. I only gave this a 6 to get attention what it should have different indications between 1 Gigabyte and 100 Mbps devices connected to a port. I NOW see other reviewers also dislike this but many will not notice this because they gave it a high rating.



I am disappointed this 8 port switch does not indicate when a 1 Gigabyte device is connected to a port. The I Gigabyte and 100 Mbps indicator are the same color. The 8 port switch I got from MonoPrice a while ago indicated a 1 Gigabyte device by a different color on the LED.

PROS: Price

CONS: No Indication difference when a 1 Gigabyte or a 100 Mbps device is connected.

I purchased this switch to replace a 5-port Netgear Gigabit switch I had been using so I would have some additional ports to use. It's difficult to diagnose connectivity issues when the indicator lights don't show the speed (100Mbps/1Gbps) a device is connected at. Also, in benchmark tests, it performed significantly worse than the existing Netgear Gigabit switch, and the Netgear uses different color indicators for the port activity lights to show connection speed. This makes it easy to guarantee pieces of hardware are connecting at the proper rate. Transferring 1 TB of data to a network drive through this switch averaged 14.7 MB per second transfer rate. I compared it to the Netgear switch, using the same cabling, same file, same network drive, everything, and the transfer averaged 78.9 MB per second. While 14.7 MB per second is just over what you'd expect from a 100 Mbps connection, I checked my computer's network adapter, and it showed it was connected at 1.0 Gbps for both tests. This level of underperforming is not acceptable in my network infrastructure. In any instance, the fastest speed I ever recorded it transferring was just under 15 MB per second.



If you just need ports to connect stuff and aren't concerned with getting full gigabit speed, you'll probably be fine. If you need that bandwidth... I'd look elsewhere.

PROS: Easy to configure, just plug and play

CONS: LED indicators do not show at what speed a device is connected. Doesn't transfer at full gigabit speeds.

Works like a charm. Works as well as any higher priced name brand switch. So far not a single issue.

PROS: Fast, 8 ports, connectivity lights for each port.

CONS: Lights don't change color by speed.

It's an Ethernet switch. It's cheap, it works, and it's fast. Not really anything more to be said.

PROS: Price. Small size. (Not rack-mountable, but if you're looking for rack-mountable hardware you want something a little higher-budget than this.)

CONS: No Ethernet cable included in the box (most switches throw in one).

I had purchased the previous version of this box for my home, and it has worked flawlessly. So when my brother's switch went out, I knew what to get. It's been install about a week, but it works just as perfectly as mine. The only thing I miss is that this version only has single-color status lights. The previous version showed two colors - one for 100MB, the other for gigabit.

PROS: Simple set up and operation. Small profile

CONS: Wal wart. Activity lights only one color

Seems to work fine, however most Gigabit switches will tell you if they are running at 1000-BT, 100-BT or 10-BT by changing the color of the LED associated with the port. This device has only one color - yellow.

I have an older model, looks exactly like the fast Ethernet one. The only con I have is that it's glossy all around, but other than that it's great!

Does everything it claims. Great throughput, no noticeable problems thus far.

PROS: Thin. Exceptionally priced.

CONS: Device seems wider than necessary. The mounting holes on the bottom are too far apart in my opinion. No lights in port. Big logo.

Simple, cheap, works...nuff said.

PROS: This is the second of these that I have purchased from Monoprice. No frills, nothing fancy, just plug it in, plug in the network cables and it works. No fuss and does not require any monitoring.

CONS: Would prefer to have the port lights on the very front of the unit rather than on top. But its only an issue because of where I have it located.

Sure wish the power plug was smaller, it does intrude so that depending on how your electrical plug is situated it might cover one outlet and make it unavailable.