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GS605AV replacement
My old GS605AV switch worked great as a simple Home Theater and network switch until yesterday. Now it will not power up. According to the GA605AV installation guide the GS605AV would “optimize audio/video streaming prioritization if it can recognize the pattern … otherwise you can use port based QoS to manually configure priority… .” Port 5 was highest priority and Port 1 the lowest. Considering getting a GS105 but what would be the best 5-port replacement for this situation?
A GS105 or GS305 should be given a try. There just non mangaged switches and would work well in general Home Theater system. I use a GS316 and GS308s in my HT system.
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Typo: “GA605AV installation guide” should be “GS605AV installation guide”…
A GS105 or GS305 should be given a try. There just non mangaged switches and would work well in general Home Theater system. I use a GS316 and GS308s in my HT system.
Ended up buying a GS105 unmanaged switch. Seems to work fine for my HT application. Three very minor nits: (1) the wall mounting holes on the GS105 are closer together (45mm) and smaller heads than the GS605AV so I had to rework the mounting, (2) the mounting screw heads rounded out instantly, and (3) the plug on power supply for the GS105 is slightly wider than the GS605AV but was able to rearrange plugs on the power strip.
Now it will not power up.
50-50 joker: Give a different power supply a try. The crux is that 7.5V DC power supply (with at least 1.0A DC out) are a rare species.
Schumaku:
I suspect you are right about the power supply being the culprit but I didn’t have any 7.5 volt power supplies to test. Also, I later discovered that my U-verse receiver/DVR (Model VIP2250 ?), which was plugged into the next outlet of the same surge-protected power strip, failed at the same time as the GS605AV. Thus I suspected a power surge might have overwhelmed the surge-protected power strip and impacted both units, and didn’t want to buy an unknown power supply only to discover the switch was damaged. Hopefully the other units on that power strip are OK. So far no new problems.
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