Home Router/Switch Rack

famosbrown

has anyone ever used this home rack for home use?

http://www.ciscokits.com/cisco-rack-stand/

I was wondering if it tipped over or anything. I don't really need anything pretty big since I will only have about 4-5 devices right now and if I ever expand, which won't be in the near future, I'd probably buy a full rack or something...

I was also looking at some of these racks from skeletek since they look a little more well built.

http://dantraknet.com/category/12


As always, thanks!

dynamik

+1 for Skeletek. I also bought two of the shelves and put one facing forward and one facing backward in the highest slot. I put an LCD on the back one and a small keyboard and mouse on the front one. I have a couple of towers sitting next to it, and it's my little lab station. Works great.

nicklauscombs

go with skeletek for sure, I have the 24U rack and love it

Darthn3ss

nicklauscombs wrote:

go with skeletek for sure, I have the 24U rack and love it

+1 to that. i have the skeletek and its pure awesome.

Mmartin_47

I got the Skeletek rack too. Have 2 patch panels, 2 switches, 3 Dell 2550 servers and 1 4u server on the bottom and a rackmountable KVM switch.

If you have hardwood floors be sure to get like coasters or something. I learned the hard way.

nel

Most go for the skeletek as you can add additional 10U's to it. I dont have one but ive seen one and there very good. something i'll get when i get to ccnp level

famosbrown

Cool. I've decided to wait on getting a rack since I will only have four devices for my CCNA studies. I will see what happens when I go toward CCNP, then buy one their. I may just use Dynamips for CCNP studies though.

Thanks for the advice...I guess no one has used the small Home Rack from Cisco Kits huh?

nicklauscombs

I just want to say it again, SKELETEK! you won't be disappointed

famosbrown

I totally agree with Skeletek as I've linked to their site in my original post. I just wanted to see if anyone has used the 30 dollar small rack from Cisco Kits. I'm willing pay 30 dollars for this small rack with 4 devices, but not willing to pay for a Skeletek rack with only 4 devices right now. Skeletek always looked like the best deal...even before they were being sold on that website...I only saw them on eBay previously.

Again...thanks for the advice.

tiersten

If it is only 4 devices then you could just stack them...

famosbrown

Yeah...that's what I'm going to do until I feel the need to buy more equipment. I just thought it would be cool to have a rack in my home office or something . I will probably just sit them on a small table or the floor .