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."It's pretty stable."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"What I like best about MikroTik Routers and Switches is its easy handling. The product also has a significantly good interface."
"This equipment is resilient and available at a good price."
"I've never had any issues with the solution."
"The tool's most valuable features are flexibility and configuration. It can be used in large setups."
"We have found this solution is quite robust and there are a lot of features in a small device."
"We use the product for VPN."
"The solution is stable."
"The tool is stable."
"For what I used this switch for, it did well."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"Comes preconfigured and designed specifically for AV."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is easy to use."
"As far as remoting into it goes, it is very efficient because I can do it from anywhere, through the remote software. I can get right into it, I can change settings really quickly, if a customer needs to add another device into it or if I need to make changes on the VLANs that we created."
"Since it has a web interface, it is easy to set up. You don't have to take three years of training somewhere for a lot of money."
"I would appreciate enhancements to impose more restrictions on VPN connections."
"The manageability of the web-based UI needs to be improved."
"If the client wants bigger capacity, there may be some issues. That is, there may be issues with scalability."
"The initial setup can be a bit difficult. The configuration can take a lot of time."
"The biggest thing that needs improvement is the support."
"If the reporting functionality of the solution is considered, I think it is not good."
"As far as improvements, there are basically only two things I would suggest. First, I think they should provide extensive training for the new releases of products, especially in the LTE space. Second, they could spend more time ensuring that their OS releases are more stable, rather than waiting for things to fall apart on the customer's premises before they make the necessary changes."
"The solution needs to improve its security firewalls and mirror that of, for example, Sophos, or FortiGate."
"Support needs to be improved."
"The tool needs to improve its network management. The tool can be also more simplified."
"There is a technical problem they can't seem to solve. It doesn't support multicast packets. In layman's terms, Mac computers can't print over the network."
"When the power does go out, or if we do a soft shutdown, some of the transceivers or the monitor don't recognize when it turns back on, so I have to physically unplug it and plug it back in and then it works. We're working with NETGEAR's engineers to figure out why that's happening."
"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."
"I'd like to see a little bit of slowdown on the firmware updates. They've been doing a lot of them. I don't know if that's just because it's such a new product line, but the firmware updates have been a little annoying because they've been coming once a week. For a switch, that's a little extreme."
"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."
"There is a lack of documentation, and the documentation I have is unclear, so I have to rely on Google for information."
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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 50 reviews. MikroTik Routers and Switches is rated 7.8, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.2. 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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