Depends on your definition of a "good switch"?

If you want good, then there is nothing better than a Cisco Catalyst 3750. but you can find a lot better value for money for a home network.

Do you need to be able to switch all 24 ports at wire speed?

Do you need layer-3 (routing) capability?

What about Power Over Ethernet?

Once you get down into the consumer bracket of LAN gear, its really driven by price so the enhanced feature disappear. Remember the master rule with network design ... Fast, Reliable, Cheap - choose any 2.

For a home network I would be looking at a Linksys switch. But I am sure you can find suitable products from Netgear and DLink as well.

If you want to go up a level, then look at the HP Procurve switches. They have a lifetime exchange warranty. They have some limitations compared to the Cisco 3750, such as no true priority queue (only round-robin queuing), but that is not going to be an issue for a home LAN. If I was running a small business on my LAN I would be going with the HP Procurve.

As for forums to discuss, I can't really help. You could try the Whirlpool forums, where they have one specifically for networking.