The Ether-GSH8TW v2 features 8 Pure Gigabit Copper ports with auto MDI/MDI-X function to eliminate the need for cross-over cables. It can achieve Gigabit speed with Standard Cat. 5 cable. In addition to the 8 standard Gigabit ports; there is a dedicated 10/100Mbps Web management port that allow users to configure the switch through local LAN or over the Internet. The management port is not influenced by the VLAN configuration. If if you make a mistake in switch configuration that make the ports inaccessible. You can quickly change the setting through the management port.

The broadcast storm filter prevents one single station flood the network with broadcast packet. MAC based Trunking allow combining several ports to multiply the speed of one link. The priority allow certain port or packet to have more priority than others. The Static MAC address table function allow MIS to manually entering MAC address in a certain port. Finally port mirror is provided to allow MIS to sniff the packet of each ports for diagnostic purpose.