
The MS305 (pay attention to the model number when purchasing) is a fine addition to a home network, especially with moving moderately large amounts of data between devices (pictures, streaming, archives) internally or via the Internet.

- Full 2.5gbps speed on all ports! - It does the job without any compromise. I've saturated the 2.5gb ports many times and it performs well.

This is a very sturdy switch with a nice metal housing. It has a bit of weight to it, which I think is very nice. Switches that are made of plastic tend to fly around at the mercy of the cables plugged into them. As with most consumer switches of this type, you just plug it in and forget it. No setup required. It is very compact, not much wasted space in the design. Link lights are bright and straight forward, also the 10/100/1000 link light is bright and reassures you that you are getting gigabit speeds. I was able to transfer a 100gb file at a steady 112mb/sec on my local network. This is a great speed that almost maxes out the 125mb/sec maximum speed that is theoretically attainable with a gigabit connection. No noticeable hiccups or burps while running 4 machines + the uplink at my desk. Came with attachable rubber feet. Also has mounting holes on the underside. Does not come with screws for the mounting.

Fits into the Ubuiquti ecosystem perfectly. Lowest price by far for anywhere near the quality and specifications for a NAS of this kind. 10 gigabit port. My Mac can format it APFS, just like an external drive. File sharing is a breeze. Security is easy to set up. Seven drive bays. RAID 5, 6, and 1+0 (with hot spare). Multiple volumes. Perfect integration into Ubiquity ecosystem.

1. Heavy steel - good heat dissipation - great for life in a closet. 2. Lots of ports - 8 3. Can be mounted a wall 4. Has a kensington lock hole on the back 5. Plug and play -power it and connect to the network It worked without having to adjust settings. It worked with a network USB hub that we have. Other switches were not capable of doing this.

-Has 8 ports. Perfect to grow into. -NetGear reliability - Had no issues with their products. -It was on sale at the time.





Small/efficient design Flexible PoE output

My favorite part about this is the QoS feature. I have my NVidia Shield TV and my powerline network set to the highest priority, followed by my PS4, then my security system hub and HDHomeRun. I know the QoS feature works because I was able to squeak out an extra 5Mb/s in my basement which is connected with my powerline network once I set the priorities. I also like the colored lights. If the device the switch is hooked up to supports 10/100/1000 LAN, the light is green, otherwise orange. This is on a per device basis, so that you can easily see which devices you can safely give a lower priority to since they can't take advantage of full gigabit LAN anyway.



Worked, just worked. Bought 2 and put them at 300 foot intervals along a long ethernet run.


All 8 ports are POE Have increased speed from older Gigabit units.


Easy, deployment, work as described.
