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(More customer reviews)I cannot recommend this product. Although it looks great on paper -- every port supports PoE *and* 10/100/1000 Mb Ethernet -- it is seriously crippled by extraordinarily buggy firmware. The web management interface is so broken as to be useless; you should essentially treat this device as though it were an unmanaged switch (ie., no VLANs, no ACLs, etc) and consider the price you will pay accordingly.
The unit has three small, high speed fans that are much too noisy for use in a home except perhaps in a garage, but I have been unable to find any comparable units that don't also have multiple fans.
Installing the latest firmware did not help. It helped a little to have half a dozen different web browsers on my computer (Safari, Opera, Firefox, Seamonkey, Camino, Chrome) as some management webpages might render on Opera but not Firefox, and others might render on Chrome but not Opera, and so on. But I kept running into a few pages that would not render or behave properly on ANY browser. E.g., my attempt to set up a VLAN ran into a brick wall as clicking the "apply" button had no effect on any browser I tried.
I sent one page to an online HTML verification service and got dozens of HTML protocol violations. That probably explains the rendering problems and the inconsistent results among browsers.
I should have shipped this piece of junk back for a refund while I could, but I foolishly believed that Netgear wouldn't let such buggy firmware go unfixed for very long. I was wrong.
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