HP Procurve 2510-24 Managed Ethernet Switch (J9019B#ABA)

A simple, no nonsense, NOISELESS managed switch for my home office - and the used price was right. My only beef if that I've been using it at times to test HP's own Network Management Server, iMC - and it cannot backup the configuration files from this switch. That is a minor issue, though.

We are replacing a perfectly good Dell switch with this one, and have been happy. The Dell was fine, but had a very loud cooling fan. Just on energy use alone we can justify this purchase (100W saved over 1 year is 876 kilowatt hours, or roughly $100). The Procurve has a great warranty (lifetime), good build quality, no fan noise, and low energy use. The 10/100 ports for workstations are plenty fast, then we use a single gigabit upload cable connect to our main backbone. Setup is a breeze, and there is a very useful "mode" switch to control the blinking lights.Consider also the D-Link DES-1024D.if you don't need a gigabit uplink. The D-Link uses even less power, and has a few tricks to reduce that even more if cables are short and computers are idle.Note that as of this writing, the price for this switch is $100 higher in "office products" than "electronics".