We performed a comparison between Luxul Switches and NETGEAR Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Ethernet Switches solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is less expensive than other options."
"The ePoE+ is great."
"Remote access to the router is a huge time saver."
"We have a wide range of switches for various applications, including a collection specifically designed for ProAV, as well as Multi-gig Switches, which are also quite well-known or unique."
"The ability to manage them is the big valuable feature. The ease of use is great."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten. I have not faced any issues with the product whatsoever."
"The solution is simple to use. I am also impressed with the tool's GUI and CLI."
"There is a lot of helpful documentation that helps with the configuration process."
"As far as remoting into it goes, it is very efficient because I can do it from anywhere, through the remote software. I can get right into it, I can change settings really quickly, if a customer needs to add another device into it or if I need to make changes on the VLANs that we created."
"The solution is very powerful and versatile."
"NETGEAR Switches has valuable cybersecurity features."
"You do need to be an IT person in order to handle the initial setup. An AV person would struggle a bit."
"The documentation could be improved; it's quite basic."
"Documentation and access to it could be greatly improved."
"The security features must be improved."
"I'd like to see a little bit of slowdown on the firmware updates. They've been doing a lot of them. I don't know if that's just because it's such a new product line, but the firmware updates have been a little annoying because they've been coming once a week. For a switch, that's a little extreme."
"NETGEAR Switches could be more secure. Scalability could also be better. This infrastructure is a bit old, and we need something that will be more secure. Something that will introduce WLAN, and we will need the knowledge to go with that. Some of the switches were used for more than seven years. I think it was just their lifespan that was exhausted. But other than that, there haven't been any issues that required us to complain or get concerned."
"It's worked for the most part, but we've had to power cycle a few devices. We've had to ask customers to manually power cycle them with the power cord, after some of the firmware updates. Their updating needs a little improvement."
"The product could be more robust."
"The management of them, itself, is not so good. You have to go between many different browsers, even some super-old browsers, to be able to do it. That is a super pain."
"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."
"There is a technical problem they can't seem to solve. It doesn't support multicast packets. In layman's terms, Mac computers can't print over the network."
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Luxul Switches is ranked 24th in Ethernet Switches while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 4th in Ethernet Switches with 51 reviews. Luxul Switches is rated 6.0, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Luxul Switches writes "Greatly simplifies troubleshooting; remote access to the router is a huge time saver". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". Luxul Switches is most compared with Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches, QSC Q-SYS NS Series and D-Link Ethernet Switches, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches and Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access. See our Luxul Switches vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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Why those brands? Can you take an other brands as opinions? You should try Unifi, Qnap, or even Cisco 1000 series. All of those are pretty similar on quality, functions and bargains for what you are paying.
So far I know Netgear but not Luxul. So as always, I say check the cost. Similar brands should be a similar cost - if not, I probably make a bet for Netgear!!
If your concerns is only the "switching" (L2) almost any brand will work, at least the brands I've mentioned.
I did not use Luxul. I don't know anything about those switches. So, any comparison coming from me would be biased. Netgear products are very professionally designed and carry lifetime warranty. Most of the managed switches also have console port, allowing Command Line Interface (CLI). Datasheets are detailed to make comparisons possible. There are many many many models to choose from.
However, checking the Internet, I didn't come across any Luxul documentation with satisfactory details to make any comparisons possible. Also, I see that there are not as many models as there are at Netgear. I see that PoE budgets are not as good as what Netgear offers with various models.
If you are on the market for unmanaged and managed switches (you did not mention what your needs are, you did not mention anything about Layer-3, you did not mention anything about redundant power supplies, you did not mention anything about CLI, etc.), I assume that your primary concern is price. For me, I would go after the cheapest price. Because, at that level, switch is a switch and it will meet the basic expectations no matter which brand you choose.