I bought the switch for my home network because now almost any device has an Ethernet port and Wi-Fi is not the performance is that you would like to have. The most important factors for me were the latency of the energy consumption of the new version of 1810-24G is specified with Max 22W which he will probably never achieve in my case. Web Management provides the energy consumption still several ways to reduce this (brightness of the LEDs, automatic detection of the cable length, night service and Leistungsredzierung the ports at idle). Management via web browser is very simple and understandable even for beginners. For someone who does not dare to the configuration, there is no configuration needed to take the switch in operation, just plug everything up and running.