We performed a comparison between Netgear Switches and Ubiquiti Unifi Switches based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Netgear Switches received better ratings from users. With an easy deployment, a great collection of features, an affordable price point, and excellent technical support, it is clear why users prefer Netgear over Ubiquiti switches.
"This is a cost-effective solution."
"The tool is stable."
"I'm satisfied with the stability of NETGEAR Switches."
"Valuable features include network monitoring and ease of programming for VLANs, etc. I especially like NETGEAR because it's easy to teach system administrators how to use them, how to look at them, how to make changes to them without having the complexity of CLIs, but still having a CLI should we need it."
"Their online portal is one of the most useful features. The portal is very user-friendly, so even someone with not a lot of tech experience can go in and see what's going on with the switch."
"Its setup, usage, and access are most valuable. It is a very easy switch to set up."
"The solution is reliable and it is easy to setup."
"The stability is good. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"Great information on the graphical interface."
"Overall the solution functions very well."
"The product's initial setup phase is very straightforward."
"Because it's a managed switch, I have the ability to set controls and configure traffic priorities, VLAN ports, etc."
"For the world where you have to balance traffic and traffic loads and bandwidth, their GUI makes it really easy because the switches, though they are enterprise grade level two or level three switches, the GUI is designed so that it's easy to set up VLANs where you need to control your traffic so that your phones don't break up and get choppy because of other people loading the network down too heavily."
"Ubiquiti is one step above the consumer level. They cost a little bit more, but they just seem to be drop-dead reliable, and they're keeping up with the latest standards."
"Ubiquiti's network management and the way you can manage many different devices on a network are really nice."
"Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is a stable solution."
"Being able to pass AVB traffic over these switches, that would be a huge add. There are not many switches out that support that. The GS728TP NETGEAR switches used to or still do support AVB, but it would be ideal if the 4300 Series could support it as well."
"The product could be more robust."
"Though the tool's useability is good, it has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"An area for improvement would be creating a wizard that can do a lot of common stuff. Instead of having some manual configuration for common features, they may want to have a single wizard that could be put in place which would let you walk through creating multiple VLANs and different routes between VLANs in a wizard. Then, you wouldn't have to dig in so deep."
"The security features must be improved."
"If they could come up with ways to look at metrics on it while the video is capping through the system, that would be nice. There could be some interesting uses for that, but it's a long way off."
"What I'd like to see is more compatibility with virtual stacking, so that 4300-series switches and 3300-series switches will actually stack together and that virtual switch stacks, themselves, are not limited to just six devices, so that they can create larger loops with more bandwidth and more redundancy."
"There's a lack of chips and, consequently, a lack of deliveries. They're out of stock at their European warehouse."
"Functionalities can change quite quickly without notice."
"Some of the features needed to set up the solution are too complex. There's a lot of technical information that is required."
"Ubiquiti UniFi Switches need to add DNS lookup features."
"There is room for improvement in terms fo customer service and support."
"If Ubiquiti UniFi Switches had some live support instead of community support, that would go a long way."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is not a cheap solution."
"The management of this product needs to be improved."
NETGEAR Switches is ranked 4th in Ethernet Switches with 50 reviews while Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is ranked 3rd in Ethernet Switches with 43 reviews. NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.2, while Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ubiquiti UniFi Switches writes "Rock solid stability with adjustable voltage configuration for PoE". NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches, MikroTik Routers and Switches and Aruba Switches, whereas Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Aruba Switches, MikroTik Routers and Switches, Meraki MS Switches and Luxul Switches. See our NETGEAR Switches vs. Ubiquiti UniFi Switches report.
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