cisco 2503 good enough?

thisisalex02

hey whats up all.. i want to purchase some cisco equipment cause i want to pursue furthur certs in cisco and i want hands on training. My question is are 2503 good (16dram/16flash)? Im currently studying for my ccna and would like to know if these routers are good to learn on for my ccna. A friend wants to sell me two of them plus the console cable so im wondering if i should get or not. i dont have any experience (yet) with cisco equipment and i know there not needed (routersim), but i just want to have actual hands on experience. Thanks

kypumper

That is what I have, but I need another one to do OSPF labs, I heard on the ICND exam they have a OSPF simulation. To bad 2950 switches are still so expensive or I would get one of those also to do VLANS, and CDP labs. On my intro exam they asked about 5 questions concerning CDP. having the equipment is the best option, the Boson router sims stink if you ask me. They do not sim OSPF very well, and another thing with the sims when you pause a telnet session then hit the enter key it does not go back into the telnet sesion like a real console port would.