D-Link DGS-108/B 8-Port Gigabit Unmanaged Metal Desktop Switch 10/100/1000 Mbit/s - UK Version black DGS-108/B

These small, low power consumption 2.5G switches are just brilliant., Plugged in my four 2.5G devices (Synology NAS, Mac Studio M2 Ultra and two more of these 2.5G switches elsewhere in the house). Will plug the 2.5G port from wireless WiFi7 AP's in as well when I've bought the wireless AP. Sustained 2.5Gbps performance. Fit and forget.High build quality, made from metal and they run cool and silently with no fans. The three I bought on offer have been up and running now a solid three months as a 2.5G backbone to my home network without an itch. A lot of none brand switches out there for much less money but I'd rather buy something quality that will just work. Unreliable networking gear can be extremely intermittent and hard to trace faults with.You can use these with standard based Cat5E cables, so no special 10G cables are needed. Brilliant.EDIT: 15Feb25. Still going strong and not one issue with them. They have never gone back to the £99.99 I paid for mine despite me having a camelcamelcamel price watch on them. They will do eventually. I hope so because I need another two. Incredible that in 2025 I now have almost 120 IP devices on my network in my home in a house of five! CCTV cameras, TV, dishwasher, washing machine, home alarm, Hive, Smart Lighting, TVs, Sky, additional sky boxes, Alexa, Homepods and everyones phones and iPads and computers!!!! It soon adds up the sheer number of devices we have these days. A switch failure and the lot is off and is extremely disruptive with us all working remote!!!

As you can probably guess from my tone throughout this review, I found it pretty tough to fault the D-Link DMS-106XT network switch given its price tag and wide variety of network connectivity. There are a few design choices that are going to split opinion (metal throughout, LEDs, very unconventional shape, etc) but these are quite minor points in the grand scheme of things. The Price tag of this switch for a 10GbE and 2.5GbE switch, even unmanaged, is going to make it damn near irresistible to many buyers and now that it has had some time in the market to increase exposure, availability and reviews, the price tag has become increasingly flexible (arriving as low as £130/$140 in some retailers). D-link could stand to be a little clearer about the turbo mode and it’s advantages with the DMS-106XT and the extent to which those LEDs can actually be customized is pretty weak, but you are clearly getting a sturdy, solid and high-performance piece of kit here. Additionally, with the increase of affordability of 10GbE, as well as 2.5GbE becoming the defacto port to be used with WiFi 6 client hardware, this switch has a much wider audience than it might have had just 2 years ago. A great piece of kit and one I heartily recommend.

I’ve had this switch for about 4 weeks now and so far it has worked flawlessly. It’s a good quality 2.5GB Ethernet switch from a well known brand. The build quality seems great - all metal chassis. It does run a little hot - it’s warm to the touch but not alarmingly so. From my research this is quite common for multigig switches, but can be a little concerning when you’re used to previous generation gigabit switches which never seemed to get warm. It’s reassuring to know that the D-Link model comes with a 5 year warranty which you can register on their website after purchase. It works with 2.5GB, 1GB, 100MB and 10MB devices. I'm using it with my Mac Studio, an HP ZBook and Dell Latitude laptop, all of which are getting the full 2.5GB speeds via built-in Ethernet ports (or an adapter for the Dell). It works fine with older devices too, like my Brother Laser printer which is only 100MB. On macOS devices I did have a few issues in that the Mac kept dropping the network connection every few minutes and this appears to be a bug in macOS (latest version of Sonoma 14.5). The fix was to manually configure the macOS Ethernet settings (in System Settings > Ethernet > Details > Hardware) and change configure from “automatically” to “manually” and set to 2.5GB Full Duplex (without enabling energy-efficient-ethernet). You can also disable AVB/EAV but that doesn’t seem to be necessary. This seems to be a bug with the built-in Ethernet port on some Macs and macOS and EEE (Energy Efficient Ethernet) which the D-Link switch supports. I didn’t see the same issue when using a USB-C based Ethernet adapter with another Mac running the same version of macOS — probably because the USB-C adapter doesn’t support EEE (I tested with the Satechi USB-C 2.5GB Ethernet Adapter). My only criticism of the switch is that I wish the power adapter port was on the same side as the Ethernet ports, so that all cables could be neatly kept out of the way. It would also be great if D-Link offered a lifetime warranty on the switch here in the U.K., like they do in other countries such as the U.S.A. Other than that, I’m very happy with the switch and would definitely recommend.

Small, compact, quiet. Perfect switch for 2 serious gamers and plenty of ports for a family of 4. Hooked router to switch through house via 30m cat 8 cable. No issues at all, no drop in speed. Switch is excellent value for money.

This surprised me it was very cheap but works great so far. Never had any speed problems with it unlike my previous one from another brand.