We performed a comparison between MikroTik Routers and Switches and NETGEAR Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Ethernet Switches solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I have found one of the most valuable features to be the hotspot network."
"The radius and wireless features are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"We have use cases like providing power over ethernet, as an access controller for Wi-Fi, and normal networking."
"One of the primary advantages is its competitive pricing in the market."
"It's pretty stable."
"The cost and versatility are the solution's most valuable features. You can do anything with them if you know how to. The solution has a whole portfolio of routing features available."
"We use the product for VPN."
"MikroTik offers full enterprise capabilities at a very reasonable price."
"The solution is very powerful and versatile."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that Insight is cloud-managed. The whole reason behind it is that there is one central place to manage it. You can pre-configure everything and you can get access to it without having to get onto the client's network. That makes it easy to use and deploy."
"The solution is stable."
"The remote management tools are fantastic. The combination of the webpage as well as the app makes life so much easier. I don't need to go and visit sites to do upgrades or any sorts of changes. The firmware can all be deployed remotely. I can see the traffic on each of the switch ports remotely as well, so I can see if we've got problems, down to an individual port. It's very granular."
"It's nice, if there is an issue, to be able to go in through the remote. The fact that the remote doesn't require a static IP... is nice. They initiate the contact to the outside world, without requiring a static to get in."
"There is a lot of helpful documentation that helps with the configuration process."
"One of the biggest benefits of the remote management is that it's easy to use and you can use it from a mobile device or tablet with the app they've developed... If one of my engineers is out in the field at a client and an alert comes in from another client, that engineer can take that alert and look at it in real-time."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten. I have not faced any issues with the product whatsoever."
"The queuing functionality needs improvement. The initial setup could be simplified."
"They should improve technical support and make direct access available to the customers."
"I would like to see a cluster feature added, where multiple devices can be configured and managed as one. One is in a standby state while the other is active, and if one fails then the other takes over."
"Technical support could be better. They don't have good support like Cisco. It can also be more stable and scalable."
"If the client wants bigger capacity, there may be some issues. That is, there may be issues with scalability."
"Wireless throughput has not kept up with the competition."
"The solution does suffer from freezing and corruption issues."
"It is slow, old and unfriendly."
"The management of them, itself, is not so good. You have to go between many different browsers, even some super-old browsers, to be able to do it. That is a super pain."
"NETGEAR Switches could be more secure. Scalability could also be better. This infrastructure is a bit old, and we need something that will be more secure. Something that will introduce WLAN, and we will need the knowledge to go with that. Some of the switches were used for more than seven years. I think it was just their lifespan that was exhausted. But other than that, there haven't been any issues that required us to complain or get concerned."
"One area that has room for improvement, and I know NETGEAR is working on it, is adding more features to the products lines in terms of what we can manage through the Insight portal... not all Layer 2 or Layer 3 settings are there yet."
"Support needs to be improved."
"The product's stability has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The web interface has been a little sketchy on occasion. Sometimes I have to reload the page to get things to show up properly, but the switch itself seems fine. The web user interface is a little wonky at times."
"Lacks switches with additional ports that provide room for new protocols of communications."
"The tool does not offer extra firewall security."
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MikroTik Routers and Switches is ranked 6th in Ethernet Switches with 62 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 4th in Ethernet Switches with 51 reviews. MikroTik Routers and Switches is rated 7.8, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of MikroTik Routers and Switches writes "A cost-effective networking solutions with a robust feature set, but its interface may have a steeper learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". MikroTik Routers and Switches is most compared with Cisco Enterprise Routers, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, MikroTik Cloud Router Switch, Aruba Switches and Cisco Ethernet Switches, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches and Aruba Switches. See our MikroTik Routers and Switches vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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