Mounting holes of the Netgear GS108v1 (WHL #105)

This week we have feel-good content for nerds and OCD people: The Netgear GS108 gigabit switch. The GS108v1 to be precise. Likely the first consumer gigabit switch from Netgear, and gigabit ethernet has been around for, uhh, 20 years now.

This brick with a chassis much wider than required for the ports alone: (and a maximum power draw of 2.5A at 5V, or 12.5W…)

Since we moved to a new building at work in the last two weeks, the entire office with all the R&D stuff needs to be rearranged and made to fit. One of the many puzzle pieces is some miniPC that is the master control unit for several downstream PCBs. Fixed IP for server and clients, but rarely used, so one unit is enough for the entire office. So a switch is convenient, and here the GS108 comes into play. Sure, a GS105 would do the trick, but we simply got this old GS108 unit, so why not use it.

I decided to mount this thing below the miniPC, which itself is mounted below my desk thanks to some free M6 holes of the desk mounting hardware. And while the unit is held in place by a (3D printed) U shaped profile, I wanted some notch to keep it centered. Great, this one got two mounting holes for wall mounting, so just add two dots for self-alignment.

And because the unit is so old, nothing can be found online. I actually had to take my calipers and measure the distance. And it made me happy:

The hardware designer back then clearly was one of us.

PSA: Netgear GS108v1 switches have the only correct mounting hole distance: 108 millimeters


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