Needing help for my Lab...

cerberos

Hello everyone. I'm in a very hard situation and need to decide really fast I'm having 2 kind of switches, for building my Lab, wich I don't honestly know wich one to really choose.... One of them is 3548-XL-EN with 16MB memory, the other is 2950G-48-EI. Both switches are offered to me with the same price wich making the situation even harder. If u were in my shoes, what will u choose to buy and why? Please, I need the answer really fast or I'm gonna lose the offer...Thx In Advance.

mikej412

2950G-48-EI hands down -- no doubt about it.

The 3548 is an old old old 3500XL series switch -- nice for the home if you don't need or want layer 3 switching

cerberos

Thanks a lot mike, this is short and clear. What's the maximum amount should be paid for such a device?

jmc012

cerberos wrote: »

Thanks a lot mike, this is short and clear. What's the maximum amount should be paid for such a device?

I paid about $70 a piece for a couple of them a few weeks back.

cerberos

It's offered to me same almost same price as u mentioned JMC, I just wonder if it supports Layer3 Switching out of the box. I wish i can get 3 of it, I heared that it would fit CCNA CCNP, might CCIE? For sure not the whole features u would want to avhieve those certifications, but buying it u would never regret! I wanna ask too about the 2620XM with 128MB Memory and 32MB Flash with 2 Wic Cards, offered to me with only 100 Bucks, good deal isn't it? u would run SDM I believe and 12.4 IOS smoothly. If anybody is offered the 2620XM and the 1721, wich one should be the best to get?

cerberos

Hey Mike, how many decades have u been studying to get those things down ur name? I only have 3 certifications and I think I'm awesome , also how did u electrocute ur cat?

miller811

cerberos wrote: »

It's offered to me same almost same price as u mentioned JMC, I just wonder if it supports Layer3 Switching out of the box. I wish i can get 3 of it, I heared that it would fit CCNA CCNP, might CCIE? For sure not the whole features u would want to avhieve those certifications, but buying it u would never regret! I wanna ask too about the 2620XM with 128MB Memory and 32MB Flash with 2 Wic Cards, offered to me with only 100 Bucks, good deal isn't it? u would run SDM I believe and 12.4 IOS smoothly. If anybody is offered the 2620XM and the 1721, wich one should be the best to get?

You will need a 3550 or 3560 model for layer 3 switching.
Expect to pay at least $200 for a 3550 and considerably more for a 3560.

cerberos

Thanks Miller, this is clear but maybe I'll delay the 3550 until it gets cheapper or something, but onething is making me uncomfortable about bidding due to the fact that i don't understand it in full, I'm afraid, and hate, that the person offering his items for bidding might be in a hardship that's why he is opening the gate for bidding? I hate to push on someone toes only because he is needing money while knowing that the item is costing and deserving more, someone pls explain this to me so I won't feell guilty.

Once on Ebay, I saw a very good lab for a guy that he was studying, as me and all of us, and world got cruel on him, he was offering his lab too cheap, really cheap, while giving some hint about the drop that happened in his life that made him to sell his lab pricelessly and discontinues his education. Of course I wouldn't to take the dirty chance and kill the guy in his Lab even if he gave it for free, I wish that i was having the money to help this guy to stand on his feet again and complete his education and his dreams, I put myself and all of us in his shoes... who knows, maybe he was needing the money helping his mother or bro to pay for their medecine.

Again guys pls, If anybody is offered the 2620XM and the 1721, wich one should be the best to get?

WillTech105

Wow I feel like I got ripped off. I got a 851 model for like 300$ and i cant do certain things like create more than 1 VLAN or use port security (silly me didnt realize when i first started studying for my CCENT -- i thought all IOS are the same).

cerberos

hmmm, indeed that's a big sum, I believe that u wouldn't to pay more than 150, 170$ on this item, but wat made u to go for the 851?

captobvious

Cisco 850 Series Integrated Services Routers

Maybe for the VPN's?

cerberos

If it's only about VPN u could run after the 1721 too, which I believe is cheaper.

tech-airman

cerberos wrote: »

Hello everyone. I'm in a very hard situation and need to decide really fast I'm having 2 kind of switches, for building my Lab, wich I don't honestly know wich one to really choose.... One of them is 3548-XL-EN with 16MB memory, the other is 2950G-48-EI. Both switches are offered to me with the same price wich making the situation even harder. If u were in my shoes, what will u choose to buy and why? Please, I need the answer really fast or I'm gonna lose the offer...Thx In Advance.

cerberos,

What study materials do you have so far?

jmc012

cerberos wrote: »

hmmm, indeed that's a big sum, I believe that u wouldn't to pay more than 150, 170$ on this item, but wat made u to go for the 851?

I bought a 851w to replace my old linksys wireless router, although I do like it the money could have been better spent on other equipment, like an L3 switch. It does make a nice little home router that can be used to practice SDM and IOS commands though and it doesn't have a noisy fan running all the time.

cerberos

tech-airman, I got the Sybex, and the Cisco Press book for Wendell Odom, Packet Tracer.... just done with CCENT and didn't start yet with ICND2.

jmc012, if I were u, I would add another 100$ and get 1721, 128MB Memory 32MB flash and would do well with the 12.4 IOS and SDM, VPN, or I would go for the 2620XM 128MB Memory 32MB flash, both range from 100$ to 150$, and with the rest of the sum i would get the 3550 for layer3 switching, jsut asked today and good ppl enlighted me that it range from 200$ and up, this can give a room also for the 2950.

Onething I'm sure that most ppl fly into a rage because of Cisco, why Cisco is too expensive? As u might know, Cisco is a Software Solution Company and not a hardware one, but I'm not going to talk about their software, but the hardware only...

Why making a stick of ram cost this and that of dollars? Hardware's prices got to the ground as everybody knows, u can get a DDR2 or DDR3 1GB for 30$ and up, depends on the brand, and here u r paying 50 and 80$ for 64MB and 128MB for just making ur router up and running. A lot of Technicians here that might argue with me. The Silicon and Transistors Fabric are now affordable and too cheap, u might tell me about the Memory type, which switches and routers need to forward and filters packets and frames so fast, and I agree! This is wat we call CAM Memory, Content Addressable Memory, which is still cheap! now Cisco's memory products, I can say, is equivalent in price to Processor's cache, just y! fans r too expensive, cable too expensive, everything is expensive.... In the end I'm a Cisco fan and would like some mercy esp about those engineers that they will administer their products, without them there is no Cisco!

jmc012

cerberos wrote: »

tech-airman, I got the Sybex, and the Cisco Press book for Wendell Odom, Packet Tracer.... just done with CCENT and didn't start yet with ICND2.

jmc012, if I were u, I would add another 100$ and get 1721, 128MB Memory 32MB flash and would do well with the 12.4 IOS and SDM, VPN, or I would go for the 2620XM 128MB Memory 32MB flash, both range from 100$ to 150$, and with the rest of the sum i would get the 3550 for layer3 switching, jsut asked today and good ppl enlighted me that it range from 200$ and up, this can give a room also for the 2950.

Onething I'm sure that most ppl fly into a rage because of Cisco, why Cisco is too expensive? As u might know, Cisco is a Software Solution Company and not a hardware one, but I'm not going to talk about their software, but the hardware only...
!

I think I am good on routers for now. I do have a 2651xm along with various other 2600 models, also a 2511RJ for remote access and a 2520 for Frame Relay. Right now what I am looking for is an L3 switch, I haven't seen too many good deals yet on them. Looks like $250 is about the cheapest I've seen so far. I really don't need one just yet so I am going to keep looking for awhile.

Actually I think the old Cisco gear is huge bargain, companys pay the big bucks for the equipment and then a few years later they upgrade and we get to buy the old equipment for garage sale prices.

cerberos

You are good to go my friend, u have got most of the gears u need for now, u only need to add a couple of 2950 to paly with. Same here, I'm going to delay the L3 switch due to it's high price and I won't need it untill the CCNP, goodluck on ur study and let us know how it goes with ya.