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Evening all,
I'm currently in the middle of setting up my home network for major amounts of study for my MCSA. I've been offered the opportunity of getting a bit of cisco kit that could be used for gaining my ccna when I get round to it!!!! The kit in question is 2 Cisco Routers & 1 Switch (2x2503 + 1x2924-XL-EN.) Can anyone here tell me whether this stuff is any good. It would be part of my windows 2003 network. Its price TAG is around £300 notes, cheap when you compare it to how much a CCNA 1 week course costs.

Any feed back would be appreciated

Ta
J

 

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Mate, GET IT

one of those switches alone costs over that
and the routers are 1500 - 2500 quid each

go for it
yes it will help immensly with studying, make sure they work (i trust your buying from a friend or something?)

if your buying from a stranger, be a bit more picky, check everything works, check IOS versions and such

i missed an oppertunity to get some decent cisco kit, and its really hampered my CCIE studying so far, when you move onto the CCNA let me know and id be happy to assist you with the kit being u live in london (if you need assistance that is)

Good luck with the purchase if it all checks out

 

Damm it,

I missed out on the deal by an hour!!!!! Will have to keep my eyes open for more of the same. Thanks for your advice pheonix....Is that the kind of stuff I should be looking out for??? I really want to get up to speed with cisco gear and might try and source seperates on ebay..

Cheers J

 

yup, 2 routers and a switch is a pretty standard CCNA lab

you can do most of the requirements with it

Frame Relay
VLANS
Access Lists
EtherChannel

Etc...

 

Hey Pheonix,

I found this guy on ebay,

<http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=73321&item=5715242325&rd=1&ssPageName=WD2V>

Looks like he sells ready made Cisco lab kits. All looks pretty impressive. Do you have any thoughts on it??

My one concern would be buying it from some guys in America (such a long distance!!) but on the plus side it all looks like a good setup at what could be a reasonable price!!

I'd be interested in what you or anybody else thinks of this deal

Cheers
J
.

 

Looks pretty good to me.

 

does look good, but the shipping will add a bit, check out ebay.co.uk, it used to also have plenty of ready made lab setups for sale

 

guys,

seen these of ebay

1 Cisco 2503 16MB DRAM/16MB Flash
1 Cisco 2503 8MB DRAM/8MB Flash
1 Cisco Switch 1912A

Any ideas whether these would be good for my ccna network lab??
Sorry to keep asking so many questions but Im not to sure what to look for.

Ta
J

 

Come on all you CCNAs & cisco gods, any thoughts on the above gear to use to study for my cisco certs??


Pleasssssssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeee

Jaffa

 

sounds good to me, router memory is upgradeable too... dimms can be found on ebay

 

I concur, Jaffa. Do it. The equipment is at the end of it's operational lifetime in production networks but as far as I know, is still standard for CCNA labs.

 

I'm Happy! now the proud owner of a WS-C1924F-EN Cisco Switch. not bad for £110 notes. RRP £1500.

 

just caught on to this thread and would like to know if anyone has recommendations for those bargains - the end of life models that are still perfect for ccna practise labs but which should be nice and cheap on ebay. anyone got a list of suitable models?

 

Hi,
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Best Regards,
bob

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