Advice for buying Cisco equipment from ebay?

JockVSJock

Have been talking to ITDaddy and he is advising that if you are building a Cisco home lab for CCNA, to buy your equipment from ebay. I'm also seeing others saying this as well.

If this is the case, what type of things should we be keeping in mind when buying? I am new to Cisco equipment and don't want to get burned.

thanks

BadBoy House

couple of links to get you going:

http://www.techexams.net/forums/ccna-ccent/44240-2600-series-1700-series-my-routers.html

http://www.techexams.net/forums/ccna-ccent/44234-alternative-switches-2950-a.html

tiersten

Don't buy equipment that isn't tested. If it says AS-IS or UNTESTED then keep away from it.
Try to avoid equipment which doesn't have a boot log in the description.
Pay with Paypal so you get the buyer protection.
Search for completed auctions to see what the average price is.
Try to get equipment with maxed out RAM and Flash so you don't need to upgrade later on. Examine this router model table from mgeorge.
Read the two threads BadBoy House linked to.
Read this guide on buying a CCNA lab.
Use the search function in this forum.

mikej412

Here's another good thread -- http://www.techexams.net/forums/ccna-ccent/38753-questions-about-different-routers-home-lab.html

This post was on page 2 of that thread, but is probably worth repeating here (since I was going to suggest the Portable Product Sheet link here anyway)....

mikej412 wrote: »

Cisco Portable Product Sheets

Some of my favorite PDFs are the
Cisco Switch Performance
IOS Packaging
Router Memory
Router Performance
NM/WIC/VWIC Compatibility (the module xref I posted earlier)


The Integrated Service Routers Quick Look is nice if you win the lottery and want to build a home lab with New Equipment like the 1800/2800/3800 series routers.

dynamik

jockvsjock wrote: »

have been talking to itdaddy and he is advising...

Fire in the hole!

JockVSJock

BadBoy House wrote: »

couple of links to get you going:

http://www.techexams.net/forums/ccna-ccent/44240-2600-series-1700-series-my-routers.html

http://www.techexams.net/forums/ccna-ccent/44234-alternative-switches-2950-a.html

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mikej412

BadBoy House wrote: »

couple of links to get you going:

http://www.techexams.net/forums/ccna-ccent/44240-2600-series-1700-series-my-routers.html

http://www.techexams.net/forums/ccna-ccent/44234-alternative-switches-2950-a.html

Hum, the links to those threads I pasted below are identical.... but mine seem to work (at least in preview mode).

http://www.techexams.net/forums/ccna-ccent/44240-2600-series-1700-series-my-routers.html

http://www.techexams.net/forums/ccna-ccent/44234-alternative-switches-2950-a.html

EDIT: AH HA!! The link text says ccna-ccent, but it's actually missing from the URL. What you see is the valid URL, but the actual link URL is wrong.

billscott92787

There are some good deals on ebay. There is a guy selling some 2650XM's on there for $95 with 12.4 IOS, 256MB of DRAM and 46MB of flash, which is more than anyone I have found. The Routers also come with a one year warranty. The guys name is Brandon, not quite sure what the companies name is, do a search, you'll find it.

beef1218

billscott92787 wrote: »

There are some good deals on ebay. There is a guy selling some 2650XM's on there for $95 with 12.4 IOS, 256MB of DRAM and 46MB of flash, which is more than anyone I have found. The Routers also come with a one year warranty. The guys name is Brandon, not quite sure what the companies name is, do a search, you'll find it.

Brandon has confirmed that his 2650XMs only has 128/32.

Forsaken_GA

if that's brandon from optimumdata, he's alright, I've bought equipment from him in the past and never had a problem