[Asterisk-Users] Snom firmwares suck <--additional datapoint to consider

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

> I looked long and hard at the LAN and it was basically narrowed down to the
> switches. In this smaller install, several cheapo Dlink ($30) switches
> de-aggregate a Cisco Catalyst switch. What I noticed was that any phone
> plugged direcly into the Catalyst did *not* lock up or reboot. Any phone
> plugged into the crap switches experienced the lockup. So now we are down to
> the cheap switches themselves. We are nuking the Dlink switches and
> replacing them with 3com workgroup switches, same as what we use in the
> large install to good effect, and I fully expect the problem to dissapear. 

So does anyone have any theories as to what the technical difference 
between a "good" switch and a "bad" or "cheapo" switch actually is? 
Lower latency? Better grounding? More cowbell?

- Mike