Ubiquiti UniFi U6+ Wi-Fi 6 Access Point vs NETGEAR GS308PP 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Unmanaged Switch
What separates them
These two differ on 4 recorded specifications. The NETGEAR GS308PP 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Unmanaged Switch is $10.99 dearer. They are different kinds of product — wi-fi 6 access point against unmanaged poe switch — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
Ubiquiti UniFi U6+ Wi-Fi 6 Access Point vs NETGEAR GS308PP 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Unmanaged Switch
Ubiquiti
Ubiquiti UniFi U6+ Wi-Fi 6 Access Point
$99.00
The advertised 3 Gbps is both radios added together, which no single client ever sees -- a laptop on the 5 GHz radio negotiates up to 2,402 Mbps and gets rather less through a wall.
Full details →NETGEAR
NETGEAR GS308PP 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Unmanaged Switch
$109.99
An 83 W PoE budget across all eight ports is generous for the size, and it is the reason to choose this over a 16-port switch with 45 W to share.
Full details →Who the Ubiquiti UniFi U6+ Wi-Fi 6 Access Point is for
Buy it if: Offices replacing consumer routers with managed access points, where client count matters more than peak speed.
Avoid it if: High-density halls and anyone who needs the uplink to carry more than a gigabit.
Who the NETGEAR GS308PP 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Unmanaged Switch is for
Buy it if: Small camera or access point installs where the power budget matters more than management.
Avoid it if: Anyone who will need VLANs, port statistics or remote diagnosis later.
Specifications, side by side
4 of 16 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | Ubiquiti UniFi U6+ Wi-Fi 6 Access Point | NETGEAR GS308PP 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Unmanaged Switch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $99.00 | $109.99 |
| Annual energy use | About 83 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $14 at $0.17 per kWh | About 876 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $149 at $0.17 per kWh |
| Mounting | Ceiling or wall, bracket included | Desktop or wall mount |
| Rated power | About 9.5 W maximum | About 6 W with no PoE load, 100 W fully loaded |
| Warranty | 1-year limited hardware warranty | Limited lifetime hardware warranty |
| Concurrent clients | About 300 stated, far fewer at usable throughput | not published |
| Cooling | not published | Fanless, silent |
| Management | not published | None -- unmanaged |
| PoE budget | not published | 83 W total across all ports |
| PoE standards | not published | 802.3af and 802.3at |
| Port count | not published | 8 x Gigabit Ethernet, all PoE+ |
| Power method | 802.3af PoE, no injector supplied | not published |
| Radio configuration | 2x2 MIMO on both bands | not published |
| Rated throughput | 573.5 Mbps at 2.4 GHz, 2,402 Mbps at 5 GHz | not published |
| Switching capacity | not published | 16 Gbps |
| Uplink port | 1 x Gigabit Ethernet | not published |
| Wireless standard | Wi-Fi 6, 802.11ax | not published |
Every row is a figure one or both products record. A blank is a figure the catalogue does not hold, not a zero.
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