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(More customer reviews)When I built my house, I installed two different Leviton Structured Media Centers {SMC} (a great way to organize all network, telephone and Smart House interfaces). I purchased this unit in 2004 along with Leviton Data Expansion Module (P/N 47605-CB5), and paid around $150.00 for the switch. A little more than a year later I accidentally touched the end of a CAT-5e cable while plugging it in on my laptop and a static discharge jumped from my finger to the RJ-45 connector (the other end of the cable cable was connected to wall RJ-45 Jack which connected to Leviton 47611-8PT Switch). Two days later the Internet went down in the house, and I traced it down to the failure of Leviton 47611-8PT switch (Computers showed Active Ethernet connection, but the entire network was down).
I replaced it with a Netgear 10/100/1000 Gigabit 8-port switch (it actually had an "Earth Ground" terminal for static protection, and paid around $50.00 for it, which is a lot less than my original expense). I've been using the Gigabit switch for over 5 years, and just added a second 8-port unit as well (no ground lug on this one). I'm not sure if Leviton Switch Leviton 47611-8PT is a Netgear OEM unit (look similar), but it sure was an expensive waste of money. Additional observation: Leviton Gigabit products are way over priced.
I must say the 'Wall Wart' transformer equipped with Leviton is arranged correctly so it does not stick out beyond the SMC, not so with the Netgear transformer (something I need to deal with).
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Switch provides easy creation of a high-speed LAN.Create a private high-speed local area network in your home or small office for all connected computers with this 8-Port Ethernet Switch. All connected computers will have access to a single printer, and
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