Don’t buy this fan for the light, it works but the level of lighting is worth 1 star.Reduction in stars due to remote control being the only way to control the fan. It has no other way to turn on/vary speed/control light. The remote since new will occassionally "lose" it's paring for no reason over night. Then you have to find the instructions and re-pair. Kind of a pain, would be easier if it had a switch. Also with two of this style fans in the house being relatively close together one of the Fans is ALWAYS not paired. Have had checked by electrican and can find no reason other than poor remote fob/control unit internal shielding. I would not ever buy two of these again.I'm on a fan replacement program (ours are almost 20 years old, out of balance and noisy). This fine is nice looking. It's quiet and does not rock (second one I've installed). Overall I was very happy with the one I installed last month. One thing that boggles my mind in the days of miniaturization is the remote controller. It's almost twice the size of the old hunter models. There's barely enough room to shove it in under the fan mounting block. I mean it's really tight. I do some embedded development. A 32-bit microcontroller with multiple accessories can be placed on a tiny board these days. Why does the remote control unit have to be almost to big to fit? The remote woes only start with installation. My fans are mounted on vaulted ceilings (14+ ft up). Getting a folding ladder opened and configured just to get to the ceiling (not to mention the balancing act needed while trying to hold stuff overhead) is a real challenge. So - in the old days, the remote controls and the remote control units had a series of DIP switches. You matched the switch with the remote - so in our house, for instance, 4 fans - 4 DIP switch combinations. No problem. The new system has you power on the fan (switch on the breaker), then within 3 minutes hold down a key combination to sync. Again, no problem with one fan (or each fan on its own circuit). Not the case for us. So once the breaker is turned on, you have two fans mated with one remote control... How can you rectify this? It's in a FAQ on the Hunter website. You have to get up and disconnect each fan sequentially and mate the remote controls. So for me, I have to climb up a precarious ladder, unhook one fan, then go back down to the basement, turn on the breaker, then mate one fan. Then, go back to the basement, trip the breaker. Reposition the ladder in another room. Unhook the fan in that room. Then reposition the ladder, re-hook the first fan, then .... Well, you get the picture. Whatever engineer designed the new system clearly didn't think it through... We have 4 fans. That's 16 trips!!! I suppose the developers with a work crew find this model acceptable, but for DIY homeowner, it's a huge PITA! Come on Hunter - you have to have gotten tons of complaints about this!This review gets an automatic star off for being Made in China (yuck).The second star off is for for poor component integration. There seems to be more complexity built into fans now that they have CFLs and probably an extra amount of FCC compliance for the remote. There is a cigarette pack sized controller than gets sandwiched between the mounting bracket and the ceiling (though that step wasn't translated from Chinese to English very well, or at all) It's a tight fit to get all the wires back under the bezel before putting in the two screws to hold it in place. I still have the edge of a blue wire peeking out of one of the holes, which is kind of annoying, but I'll just leave it there. Adding the blades after the power unit is on already mounted is not a task for the faint at heart. There are rubber bushings that you have to compress before starting the screws, all while working upside down, dropping screws and bushings to the floor. I'm 6'4", so I can stand on the ground to do it, but was still a PITA. On the last blade, I cut down one of the top hat bushings ever so slightly to make starting the threads a bit easier. In hindsight, contrary to the instructions, I should have installed the blades first. Maybe being made on the other side of the earth the screws don't fall out as easily.Functionally, it works well. I made the mistake of hooking it up to an existing Lutron dimmer switch that was used for the old light with standard incandescent bulbs. They don't play well together. Both the switch and the fan were buzzing. So, swapping out for a standard switch made that all work well. The fan is quiet, moves enough air, and the light seems fine, though with that CFL morgue feel which I'm becoming more accustomed to. Hunter seems to want you to mount the remote on top of the existing wall switch, which of course I didn't do. I thought at first the fan would only work with the remote, but it seems you can just set it to what you want and control off and on with the wall switch. For now at least.not a happy camper ... this fan was difficult for husband to install, it took him hours, then fan wouldn’t work. lightbulb arrived smashed. I returned fan ... big waste of time & effort.This is vey quiet and with none the wobble of our previous fan! Looks great. The light is goo and bright. The remote works well. Very happy with it.Extremely quiet and very sleek looking.Some of the required screws were missing.Very good product makes no noise at all