Priston wrote: » Those routers would be good in a lab, those switches are a little old though. Also, your paying more to get everything from one place.
clarson wrote: » well like most lab kit sellers on ebay, they are over promising and under delivering. Don't have much good to say about it. You probably can use it pass the ccna with better study materials. They throw a lot of hardware and buzzwords at you. Letting you, an uneducate buyer to fill in the details. And, as most of us, we fill in the details with things we would like to get, and they fill in the details with things you don't want to get. Here the biggest detail they left out is the feature set of the ios. While you do need to know a bit about hardware and terminology, the biggest thing you need to know is the ios. While the 15.1 version of the ios is good. They haven't said anything about which feature set you are going to get. the ipbase feature set is fine for the ccna. But, if you want to do security, your going to need the the advsecurity feature set. and, to do ipv6, you will need to have the advipservices feature set. You want to do voice along with everything else, you need the adventerprise feature set. From all that is mentioned in the ad, it would seem your getting adventerpise feature set. But, no where does it mention that. The adventerpise feature is the most capable feature that is available from Cisco. You would thing they would mention it somewhere. If you ask me, it looks like you'd be paying $400 for a pretty basic ccna lab with a bunch of bells and whistles that are of no use to you.
clarson wrote: » I thought about buying it piece by piece but this seemed easier Well, buying it off of ebay one piece at a time can get expensive. But, a lot of those ebay listings have a company with a warehouse of cisco equipment behind them. And, they would all rather sell you 5 or 6 pieces of equipment instead of one. But, your going to need a listing of what you want to purchase. I want this many of this switch and this many of that router, etc. They will quote you a price. they don't sell racks, but they will include rack mounts if you want them. they don't sell ethernet cables, but they will put serial wics into your routers. they might not have the ios you want, but they will put in the amount of memory that you specify. but, you have to put together a list of equipment you want to present to them. They will know the cisco equipment, but they don't know a thing about home lab kits. So, you need to know what you want.
