I have a really cheap Sturmey Archer SRF3 hub.

I have done 3000 miles on it and I'm very pleased with it. The gear range is quite narrow at 177%, but it suits the purpose of the bike which is commuting. I'm retired now and I ride it around town, typically doing 7 - 10 miles a day on it in summer, but it is ridden all year round and it never causes me a problem unless I've had the rear wheel off and misadjusted it.

As supplied the hub is greased and requires only very rare attention - maybe every couple of years or at maybe 2000 miles. However, keen to mess about with things and being fond of old fashioned ways and oil cans, I have drilled the hub casing and fixed up an oil port like they used to have on these hubs before about 1990. I just put a couple of squirts of oil in it now and again.

This hub is quiet and changes are slick. It is very easy to live with.