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Linksys EZXS88W EtherFast 10 100 8-Port Workgroup
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Rating: 4.12/5 from 24 reviews Cheap, fast, but beware premature port deathAdding More Ports doesn't get much easier than this!!!WOW!!! I currently have a Linksys Wire Router BEFSR41, and have had it for 2 years and have had NO problems with it. But I decided I wanted to drop additonal ethernet cables in other rooms in my house, but I had only one port left on my router. What was I to do! Along comes Linksys with the 10/100 8-port Workgroup Switch, model EZXS88W. Literally all I had to do to install this was connect an ethernet cable to my last port on my BEFSR41 Router, and attached it to the 'Uplink' port on the EZXS88W, and plug my laptop ethernet cable into any one of the 8 additional ports on the EZXS88W and boot up. I now have 8 additional internet ports. Thats ALL there is to it!!!!! Literally took longer to get it out of the package than to hook it up and get it working... If you are looking to add additional ports to your BEFSR41, or just want to create a small internal network, get this EZXS88W!! You will NOT be sorry!!!! Mike Heine ('winterstone') Cisco to the rescueCisco bought Linksys a while back -- smart move! Can't get any easier -- works great, while it is smaller than the Linksys router, it still sits nicely on top, although feet pattern does not match. | ||||||||||||||||
I have found (and so have a few of my tech buddies and Network Admins I know) that Linksys hubs and switches tend to have problems with ports going dead or becoming unusable after only about a year of use. That is, one or more of the ports will die within a year's time (or shortly following the warranty period -- this is especially true of the 5-port switches).
This premature port failure is not limited to just the hubs and switches. I've also had 2 DSL/Cable modem routers with 4 port switches exhibit the same problem (in one case, ALL the ports died except for the cable/DSL port).
My suggestion is to buy more ports than you need so that you can still use the hub/switch after some ports go bad. That's why I am buying an 8-port switch even though it's replacing a 5-port switch where 2 of the ports are now dead.
Why 4 stars? Because if you know about the port death syndrome and buy more ports than you need, it's STILL a great deal for the money...