CIscos are very stable, but what you're paying for more is advanced features. It sounds like you probably don't need things like SNMP access, AAA, NTP, IGMP support, trunking, advanced STP, the ability to force speed/duplex on ports, or 802.11Q VLANs. You may not even need any sort of managability at all, but just plug-in and go.
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Bitt Faulk