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Will this handle all of my home fast ethernet needs?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166075

Good price, but only has 1 review.
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I prefer this one. Slightly cheaper, smaller, and a lot of positive reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/ZyXEL-G....uct_top
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I bought two 8 port gigabit switches for $20 each during two different sales. Same caliber as the Rosewill. Never heard of the second one you posted.

Cable modem to 4 port gigabit router. Two 8 gigabit switches servicing devices. Have server on same switch as the devices that use it most.

Point is, if you wait for a sale, you can get a better deal.
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I have an 8-port now, but it is almost full and a bunch of new RJ-45 jacks are coming online and I need to expand. So I need 16. The 8 is moving to a workstation that needs more jacks, and I am not in the mood to get in the crawl space yet to pull a couple more lines.
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