Opinions on these kits?

in CCNA & CCENT
Are these CCNA certification kits worth it from certificationkits.com?
Been debating on getting one to lab at home with and get more familiar with the stuff.
Thanks for your thoughts!
Been debating on getting one to lab at home with and get more familiar with the stuff.
Thanks for your thoughts!
Comments
I'd sell you the same hardware for half that. But, I don't include any of those "additional included items". You have to decide if those "additional included items" are worth half the cost of the lab. Or, if you'd like to save money by not purchasing those items and/or spending it on different study materials.
IT-Base on eBay is the person that I bought from. Both switches did have an old version of IOS (12 something?) but I talked to them about it and they fixed it with a newer version pretty quickly.
Honestly, even though I have a lab, I prefer using Boson NetSim 11 for the CCENT/CCNA labs. I know.. go ahead and roll your eyes. Powering everything up just to do a simple lab (like RoAS, creating VLANs, etc) is inconvenient and extremely noisy!! If I could go back in time, I wouldn't have bought the lab for the CCNA.
PT and NetSim is all that is needed. Might be worth it for higher studies though. Just my .02.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IPQUNUI/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A6OQFKFZO3PJK
Its reasonable priced and should be sufficient for CCNA
Unetlab is great. There is also VIRL too. Both are great options but I prefer VIRL since it's an official product and I don't have to go hunt for grey-area IOU images and those sort of things. $150-200 a year is a drop in the bucket for what you get.
Ideally you will still want physical switches for L2 work, but for L3 go with VIRL or UNL all the way.
For CCNA though-- I would go all virtual. Why? Because everything you need can be virtualized and all pre-made CCNA kits are only good for CCNA. Sometimes they'll sell you really cheap equipment good enough for the CCNA but you won't be able to use it for CCNP or CCIE. So it's not future-proof is what I'm saying. Getting one of these cheapo kits makes sense only if you are 100% sure you will not go further than CCNA AND you want, for some reason, to have hands on experience with equipment you probably wont see in production anyway.