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.
"The cloud management has just been huge for us. We have 80 clients and they all have switches... With the cloud-managed Insight ones... we know more information without having to do complicated SNMP traps. We get nice emails, we get a web interface, and we're not having to wait for our RMM tools to get SNMP traffic to notify us. We don't have to do complicated configurations."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is easy to use."
"Its setup, usage, and access are most valuable. It is a very easy switch to set up."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"With this, you literally just log in to a website, see all your clients, all your NETGEAR switches, and you can manage them all right there: the VLANs, powering on and off individual ports, rebooting the whole device, the firmware updates. Everything can be done remotely..."
"I'm satisfied with the stability of NETGEAR Switches."
"The solution is simple to use. I am also impressed with the tool's GUI and CLI."
"The remote troubleshooting features provide a single pane of glass where I can see my all my clients' equipment. If they're reporting a problem, I can go to the Insight Pro interface online and I can bring up that client and I can see all their devices and the status of all their devices."
"I haven't found the cost of the solution to be too high."
"The GUI interface is very easy to use and the Linux-based command-line interface is also good."
"The tool's most valuable feature is port security, which allows blocking/disabling ports. The ports also have PoE capability."
"The interface and the duality are the solution's most valuable features."
"It is a high-quality product, and it won't let you down."
"The two most valuable features are the remote access user and the side-to-side connection."
"It's been working fine, it's been stable, and there are no interruptions."
"The value here with using the Ubiquiti products across the board is that they're almost all single-pane management and the single-pane management is included. It's a huge benefit."
"There is a lot of delay in the data coming to the servers."
"The product's scalability has certain shortcomings that can 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."
"It's worked for the most part, but we've had to power cycle a few devices. We've had to ask customers to manually power cycle them with the power cord, after some of the firmware updates. Their updating needs a little improvement."
"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 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."
"The tool's price could be better."
"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."
"One of the downsides of the solution stems from the limited warranty that it offers to users."
"Ubiquiti UniFi Switches’s pricing could be less expensive."
"If Ubiquiti UniFi Switches had some live support instead of community support, that would go a long way."
"Ubiquiti tends to end-of-life things faster than other companies do. Cisco tends to be in the 8-, 10-, 12-year time frame, and Ubiquiti tends to be in the 4- or 5-year time frame."
"I would like to see the pricing improved."
"I had some initial problems with the configuration that necessitated contacting technical support."
"The management of this product needs to be improved."
"The initial deployment was a bit complex."
NETGEAR Switches is ranked 4th in Ethernet Switches with 51 reviews while Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is ranked 3rd in Ethernet Switches with 43 reviews. NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.4, 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 "Offers a good controller, seamless design and easy to deploy ". 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 HPE Ethernet Switches. See our NETGEAR Switches vs. Ubiquiti UniFi Switches report.
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