Cisco 1700 Router

jlhct

Hello,

I have access to an old Cisco 1700 router. Would this be beneficial to my study for the CCNA test or is it too old?

Thanks!

mikej412

Yes.

xanderuk2

Yep, great Routers for a home lab. As far as I can remember they come with 2 WIC slots, so you have a variety of WAN interfaces at your disposal (assuming you can cet hold of the WAN Interface Cards.
As well as a native FastEthernet and Aux port.
Well, the 1721 on my desk does anyway.

jlhct

Thanks everyone for your opinion. They don't have the cards, they were taken out during the double t-1 upgrade to install in the 2600 series we upgraded to. I think eBay will be my friend in this case

jlhct

Yes, it looks like this one has those same 2 ports as well

xanderuk2 wrote:

Yep, great Routers for a home lab. As far as I can remember they come with 2 WIC slots, so you have a variety of WAN interfaces at your disposal (assuming you can cet hold of the WAN Interface Cards.
As well as a native FastEthernet and Aux port.
Well, the 1721 on my desk does anyway.

Trailerisf

jlhct wrote:

Thanks everyone for your opinion. They don't have the cards, they were taken out during the double t-1 upgrade to install in the 2600 series we upgraded to. I think eBay will be my friend in this case

Don't fall off your chair... The wic-eth card for it is $100+... I have one on my desk w/ csu/dsu interface and am debating whether or not I want to spend the cash.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps221/products_data_sheet09186a0080088714.html

Humper

Look hard enough on ebay and you can find them for around 50USD. I have 5 1720 routers here at home and they are excellent

jlhct

ModemHumper wrote:

Look hard enough on ebay and you can find them for around 50USD. I have 5 1720 routers here at home and they are excellent

Thanks, i'll take a look!!