Cisco 2611 worth upgrading to 100baseTx-FD?

thefear78

Hi,

I think I overpaid for my 2611 a bit by paying $100 for it. I'm wondering if the fastethernet ports are easily/cheaply upgraded to 100 Mbps FD? I don't see any eth cards for these routers around or on ebay.

I have it hooked up to a Catalyst 1900 and of course it has two FD ethernet ports. I like using it despite its slow speed so I can grasp the CLI even while I surf.

Any thoughts?

dtlokee

There is no method to upgrade the on board 10 mb/s interfaces, but you can install a NM-1FE-TX network module in slot 1 which will give you a single FE interface. You may not need a FE interface depending on what you're trying to do with it, you can trunk on the built in 10mb/s interfaces with the correct IOS, but this only supports 802.1Q not ISL and the 1900 only supports ISL so you're kinda out of luck there.

thefear78

Crappy... but thanks anyways.

It's running a 12.3(1) IOS so it's still fairly useful for the CCNA.

yukky

I ended up using my 261x for my Frame Relay switch; they still work great for doing WAN.