I've had one of these installed in our home office for about 9 months now, replacing a 'consumer' 8-way switch which had run out of ports. Installation is uncomplicated, it has a web-form based control interface which you can drive from any browser, so there's no software to install. The only real setup to do is giving it an IP address (assuming the default isn't what you want), then it's ready to go as a simple 10/100/1G switch. You can then turn on additional settings (packet filtering, VLAN, etc) as required.I'm pleased to report that in my setting it's performed flawlessly since it was first turned on; I'm not doing anything particularly esoteric with it, but it's never crashed or needed fiddling with. Importantly (for me) it's silent in operation and doesn't use a lot of electricity (under 10 Watts), so doesn't get hot.One thing to note - this isn't the version which does power-over-ethernet; that's the -28P model.Update 27/7/14: If you're curious as to what a managed switch will let you do, I'm using these features:(a) Traffic Segmentation, which lets you control which destinations traffic arriving at a particular port can be sent to. So, I have a 'guest' wi-fi access point; its port can talk to the Internet gateway, but not any other machines (e.g. workstations and servers) attached to the network.(b) ACL (access control list) - this lets you set up a pretty comprehensive firewall between ports. I've got a server which is allowed HTTP access by anyone, but with general access (e.g. SSH) only from specific devices as identified by MAC address.(c) SNMP, which lets you monitor statistics (packet counts, byte counts, etc) on a port-by-port basis.