Just received a new goodie from my job.

My company was changing our wireless provider and the new one does not use Cisco equipment so I was able to take this home a few weeks ago. Not a bad upgrade for my CCNA Lab.

It's and 1841 with the Advanced Security bundle and the VPN card. Also has a T1 WIC and a 4 port Ethernet WIC.

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Deathgomper

Nice, there is no better equipment like free equipment!

mikej412

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!

notgoing2fail

I think you need to give that to me...

peanutnoggin

Niiiiiiiiccccccceeeee!

fieldmonkey

Cha' Ching!

What a score!

Paul Boz

Definite score! I pulled several broken 7206vxr chassis out of the dumpster at my previous employer and was able to produce one working chassis with the parts. It was pretty rewarding.

That router should help you for a while

notgoing2fail

Paul Boz wrote: »

Definite score! I pulled several broken 7206vxr chassis out of the dumpster at my previous employer and was able to produce one working chassis with the parts. It was pretty rewarding.

That router should help you for a while

LOL!! That's great....I would love to find a dumpster with thrown out gear....

tiersten

Good catch! An 1841 is a nice small router. I use one as my home router now and I've not had any problems with it. It is overkill for a CCNA lab but it won't hurt anything to use it and it doesn't have crazy power consumption or noise level like the big chassis routers do

ilcram19-2

thats awsome dude!!! i want one 2

ajmatson

I am hoping to get a second one from a sister property that changed as well, I know the supervisors very well

Now if I just need to upgrade my 2600's to XM models and I will be set.

DevilWAH

Thats nice.. its alsways nice to get some thing like that from work

MY lab at work is made up from half the spares we have laying around

It's with the understanding that if needed it goes back..

but to have upto date equpment in you lab is great, and with the security service pack thats even better!!

notgoing2fail

ajmatson wrote: »

I am hoping to get a second one from a sister property that changed as well, I know the supervisors very well Now if I just need to upgrade my 2600's to XM models and I will be set.

Those 2600's are really really cheap so don't fret it....just check out eBay...

steve514

...and where did you say you work?? lol

mikem2te

ajmatson wrote: »

My company was changing our wireless provider and the new one does not use Cisco equipment so I was able to take this home a few weeks ago. Not a bad upgrade for my CCNA Lab.

It's and 1841 with the Advanced Security bundle and the VPN card. Also has a T1 WIC and a 4 port Ethernet WIC.

Nobody likes show offs and gloaters on this forum

ajmatson

ik I'm not trying to be a show off I'm just excited. I really needed this with my studies sine I am a father and a student all rolled up in one I really don't have the cash for the good stuff. If all goes well however; I may plan on donating one of my 2600's here

notgoing2fail

ajmatson wrote: »

ik I'm not trying to be a show off I'm just excited. I really needed this with my studies sine I am a father and a student all rolled up in one I really don't have the cash for the good stuff. If all goes well however; I may plan on donating one of my 2600's here

That would be a nice gesture. If you were to go this route, I'd hold a contest or some kind of raffle.

ajmatson

That's what I was thinking

tazdevil

I have some older gear if needed to donate, 2500's and 2924xl switches 2 of each. I see the comments to stay clear of these, they worked great for me. Let me know if needed.

mens

hey if you don't need the hwic-4esw or whatever its name is you can sell it on ebay for like 450 bucks. I sold mine in one minute. True story, last week

ajmatson

mens wrote: »

hey if you don't need the hwic-4esw or whatever its name is you can sell it on ebay for like 450 bucks. I sold mine in one minute. True story, last week

Really??? Damn, This may sound like a noobish question but do I really need it with my switches in my Lab? What good is it really for anyway?

I plan on going thru my CCNA: Security and CCNP. Do you think I would need it for that?

CiskHo

ajmatson wrote: »

I plan on going thru my CCNA: Security and CCNP. Do you think I would need it for that?

Definately not needed.

irishpunk

what a coincidence just what I need can I have it ? lol

duzzey

Cool stuff

APA

tiersten wrote: »

Good catch! An 1841 is a nice small router. I use one as my home router now and I've not had any problems with it. It is overkill for a CCNA lab but it won't hurt anything to use it and it doesn't have crazy power consumption or noise level like the big chassis routers do

+1

Been using an 1841 as my Home DSL gateway from quite some time now....running a HWIC-ADSL2+ & a HWIC-4ESW.... has been rock solid.

Nice score indeed my friend.....

HWIC-4ESW comes in handy... I wouldn't sell it if I were you... allows me the extra switchports to trunk over to my rack\run my 7960G SIP phone\perform inter-vlan routing on the 1841 and you can then use the routed ports for other functions (for instance I use them as imitation WAN interfaces to labup things like MPLS-TE, AToM).

Remember the fixed ports are 'routed' ports and you can't use them for any sort switching functionality like you would with the HWIC-4ESW.

So basically what I'm saying is.... you never know when you might just want the functionality on the 1841 when you are labbing things up for the CCNP... CCSP... CCIP....who knows what qual you might chase down...

APA

Paul Boz wrote: »

Definite score! I pulled several broken 7206vxr chassis out of the dumpster at my previous employer and was able to produce one working chassis with the parts. It was pretty rewarding.

That router should help you for a while

You are my hero..... can you dumpster dive a 7206VXR for me pwease?

Don't tell me you got an NPE-G1 for your efforts as well.......