Should I upgrade the ram on my 2501s?

Currently they have 4 MB of ROM/RAM. Running IOS 9 and ive heard somewheres that later levels of IOS need more ROM/RAM. Input is appreciated.

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shadown7

If you plan on studying for the CCNA you need more memory. You should upgrade your memory to 16MB/16MB. You will need IOS 12.x to do most of the stuff on the CCNA. You can get a 16MB stick on ebay really cheap.

johnnynodough

Will I need a boot upgrade chip or just the DRAM and flash module?

porengo

johnnynodough wrote:

Will I need a boot upgrade chip or just the DRAM and flash module?

I would strongly recommend upgrading your boot chip as well.

wildfire

To run 16mb intel flash (most of the ones you ebay) you need a bootrom software of atlease 10.2

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