We performed a comparison between D-Link Ethernet Switches and Netgear Switches based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Of the two solutions, Netgear Switches has better ratings because it has better stability than D-Link Ethernet Switches and users are satisfied with the technical support as well as its ROI.
"These switches are very easy to install because there is no configuration."
"These switches are simple and easy to configure."
"The solution is easy to use."
"There are many good points about this product. Number one, they are very stable, and easy to configure and manage."
"D-Link has a good VPN feature and quality of service."
"It is very stable and reliable."
"We use the solution for the network and ethernet connection."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution is simple to use. I am also impressed with the tool's GUI and CLI."
"The company provides a lifetime warranty."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"Since it has a web interface, it is easy to set up. You don't have to take three years of training somewhere for a lot of money."
"It's nice, if there is an issue, to be able to go in through the remote. The fact that the remote doesn't require a static IP... is nice. They initiate the contact to the outside world, without requiring a static to get in."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the fully functional IGMP snooping and querier, out-of-the-box, that the switch provides. With most if not all switches that we've worked with previously, at a minimum you have to enable a couple of different options... It's really a good feature to have that stuff enabled and fully functional out-of-the-box so that [AV techs] don't have to worry about configuring any of that stuff."
"This is a cost-effective solution."
"There is room for improvement in terms of stability."
"In a future release, the solution could improve by being more secure and allowing the configuration of each port."
"This solution is not good for distribution at the core."
"They need to have some more high-end switches."
"It could be easier to scale on managed devices."
"It should be more stable, and it should have good integration with the cloud. It should support configuration, supervision, and control through the cloud."
"The solution needs to improve layer 2 switches."
"They could be more stable. They were not as resistant as Cisco. After some time, some of them failed. This could be because we import quite a lot of products from different horizons, so there is no guarantee of quality. In Africa, these products don't always directly come from the manufacturer. We get these products from the Middle East or Asia. Therefore, you cannot be sure that the quality is exactly similar to what you have in Europe or America."
"Perhaps in the future, we will have even more different types of switches and be able to fulfill more collections."
"The technical support could be more helpful."
"If they could come up with ways to look at metrics on it while the video is capping through the system, that would be nice. There could be some interesting uses for that, but it's a long way off."
"Their old firmware was a problem for us and we're still working on it. It didn't apply correctly so it took about half of our switches offline, which meant we couldn't use some of the functionality like the firmware updates. Unfortunately with that firmware, which they've sorted out, if you don't go through all the firmware and make sure it's past that point and back online, that's an issue with them. It's something to cautious about"
"The ‘how-to’ guides could do with some improvements. We got in trouble following the stacking and Dante set-up guides. If these would have been accurate, we would not have lost three days."
"The product could be more robust."
"Centralized monitoring is there, but competitors like Cisco Prime are at a higher level of centralized monitoring."
"One thing I would like to see improved is the response time for technical support."
D-Link Ethernet Switches is ranked 11th in Ethernet Switches with 24 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 4th in Ethernet Switches with 51 reviews. D-Link Ethernet Switches is rated 7.8, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of D-Link Ethernet Switches writes "Plug-and-play, zero maintenance, and reasonably priced". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". D-Link Ethernet Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Aruba Switches, MikroTik Routers and Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches, MikroTik Routers and Switches and Aruba Switches. See our D-Link Ethernet Switches vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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