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Category: Personal Computers
Brand: Cisco
Model: EZXS55W
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Cisco EZXS55W Review by Mark R. White (Arlington, VA USA)

The switch works great! I'm connected to an old work router (probably decades old, I don't know as I don't have access to it) and get the full connection speed (100Mb). I had a Netgear GS105A (1Gb switch) that wouldn't negotiate properly with the old work router, but this one works like a charm!

I wish they would have explained the uplink/port5 deal in the instructions, but as far as I can tell, Uplink is a duplicate of Port 5 (there are 6 ports with 1-4 always available, ports 5 and 6 (uplink) are only available one at a time) such that Uplink is to be used when connecting to another switch with a straight cable (instead of a crossover cable). So the Uplink port does a manual crossover - which seems pretty useless to me since most newer technology auto-senses the cable and end point connection - so a manual crossover port isn't needed.

Cisco EZXS55W Review by James A. Kenefick (Hamden, CT USA)

I own the version of this switch back when Cisco wasn't a part of it. In fact the computer this is being typed on is hooked up to it. My setup: 50MB cable internet via a Motorola Surfboard fed to a router. That feeds a cable threaded through my basement to an old Netgear switch that died, hence the need for this new EZXS55W ver. 4.2 switch. At that point my network splits and feeds the OLD version of this switch and then to this computer.

Until I bought this new EZXS55W switch, I was getting more than my promised 50mb download speeds all over my house. No issues at all. The internal network transfers were only slowed down by how fast the hard drives of various machines are. Then my old Netgear switch died, so I picked up this EZXS55W switch. Everything slowed to a crawl. Max downloads of 1.5mb per second. Streaming Netflix/Amazon Prime videos to my Sharp connected TV takes ages to load and it's always low quality. Network transfers are brutal. Took me a few days to realize what it was. SO I went out and bought another brand of switch, swapped it for the EZXS55W, and miracle of miracles, all my speeds went right back to normal.

Again, my EZXS55W says ver. 4.2 on it, I don't know if that's relevant. What I do know is this thing is a piece of junk. Avoid.

Cisco EZXS55W Review by D. Korte

I pulled it out of the box & plugged it into a router port and added my two printers... didn't even have to configure the one printer, easy "add device" for the other printer. Switches are tiny now and it was so easy. It's hidden and I don't plan on touching it for years. The specialty router costs $200 and a port went bad. $22 is a lot cheaper. Thank you for extending the ports.

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