Netgear Smart Switch GS716T v3: Firmware update to V6.3.1.39

Trusty old switch still supported with this July update, Release notes and download link.

How to get the Image to the switch? Go to Maintenance > Download > HTTP File Download and select the image file. Click Apply in the lower right corner and wait until the process finished.

Note: I had to shrink the image filename a bit as the switch didn’t like the length.

Then you can choose to reboot from that image next time

Don’t forget to click on Apply in the lower right corner.

The final step is to reboot the switch which activates the new firmware image.

Netgear GS716T v3: Firmware update to V6.3.1.19

After one and a half year with the Netgear GS716T v3 I’m still pleased. A bit late as the update is around for a while I updated the switch as some bugs were fixed.
Over here you find the download.

You find in this previous article how I did it: Netgear GS716T v3: update Firmware

2018-06-19 Update: for our convenience the general download link to GS716T v3.

Managed Switch: Netgear GS716T v3

To bump up the connection and also avoid sloppy Wifi rates around my flat I went a bit further than just buying a cheap switch and got a 16 port managed switch, the Netgear GS716T-300EUS Smart Managed Switch.
Downside of the cheap Netgear device is that the management software is only available for Microsoft Windows, not for Linux or MacOSX. However, web configuration is possible and everything important should be available via the web interface.

Next I Installed Nagios which was not that easy as the primary hints on how to do it via homebrew were wrong/bad. I found an older instruction which helped me to get there. The switch was now able to tell me via SNMP that the intended ports were up and how long it was turned on so far.

Pictures of opening the box:
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