We performed a comparison between MikroTik Cloud Router Switch 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."The interface management and the user access management is pretty good."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"It's a well-rounded solution for routing."
"It is easy to set up."
"I like that it's quite flexible and addresses different issues. It's quite easy to use, and the pricing is great. We find them to be very capable switches."
"This solution is very similar to the on-premises version making it easy to use for those who know the architect."
"Some of the most valuable features are the simplicity, cost, usability, and power. As a package, it's extremely effective."
"The performance has been good."
"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."
"This switch is Layer 3, so it is a totally managed system."
"The stability is good. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"For what I used this switch for, it did well."
"We have one client that has three Insight switches and when we make a change to their network... we can make the configuration change and push it down to all three switches at once. We don't have to individually log on to each switch to make the change."
"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."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution is very powerful and versatile."
"Improvements are needed with respect to some of the security, especially for VPN links between vendors other than Cisco."
"It happens that you may find your network is down, if you reboot the switch, they come up. However, sometimes, they reset themselves. That's a big issue."
"Technical support could be better."
"There has to be more development in the OS. It's complex for this switch as compared to others like Cisco. For NetGear and Cisco, it's easy to adapt the VLAN concept but it should be simplified for MikroTik."
"If MikroTik had a marketing team and support team in India then it would be much easier for us to get the product, as well as support."
"In medium to large sectors, there's a necessity for managing aspects like proxy firewalls."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The user interface could improve and they should allow a license for IBS."
"One thing I would like to see improved is the response time for technical support."
"I would like an email notification in case of errors or failures. If it was possible for the switch to email out an error log or notification note, especially in cases where we have the switches offsite (on the other side of town), then if something was to go wrong, it would be great to know about it before our client goes to use it for a big event, and it doesn't work. While I know that it does do SNMP, which is sort of standard, in the AV world, that is not always an option for us. We are usually running our own little network box and don't always have access to an SNMP server. We may just have simple Internet access or something similar."
"The solution needs centralized management and centralized configuration."
"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."
"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."
"Perhaps in the future, we will have even more different types of switches and be able to fulfill more collections."
"The product's scalability has certain shortcomings that can be improved."
"One thing I have asked for, something that NETGEAR lacks that I would love to see — and from what I understand it's in the works — is a REST API to programmatically interface with multiple switches. That would be a great feature."
MikroTik Cloud Router Switch is ranked 14th in Ethernet Switches with 17 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 4th in Ethernet Switches with 49 reviews. MikroTik Cloud Router Switch is rated 7.8, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of MikroTik Cloud Router Switch writes "Easy to set up, user-friendly, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". MikroTik Cloud Router Switch is most compared with MikroTik Routers and Switches, Netgate TNSR, Cisco Enterprise Routers, Huawei Enterprise Routers and D-Link Ethernet Switches, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and MikroTik Routers and Switches. See our MikroTik Cloud Router Switch vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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