Pricing for #CCNA Lab Switches
It’s time to wrap up this series. The new price estimates are posted for 2950, 2960, and 3550 switches. The prices are pretty reasonable for most any budget. Today’s post hits the highlights!
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#CCNA Lab Switch Models
The history of #CCNA, compared to the history of Cisco LAN switch series, results in some pretty good options for choosing what Cisco LAN switches work best for a CCNA home lab. In today’s post, I’ll walk through some of
#CCNA Lab Router Models: More than Just 1721
I finally worked through part-timer Chris’s pricing data, gathered from eBay. The short version: 1721 is still a great model to use for CCNA labs, but two others join the mix as great price performers. Today’s post works through a
Used #CCNA Router Pricing Process
Part-timer Chris has been dutifully scouring eBay off-and-on for the last two months, checking for router and switch prices. Today, I’ll provide a few background details on routers, router interfaces, methods, and interesting random facts. Next week – updated prices,
Final Words on #CCNA Lab Router IOS
You buy your used #CCNA router, and whoops – you didn’t check the IOS that was installed. You start to try a few commands, notably, the IPv6 config commands, and unfortunately, they aren’t supported. And then you try to download
Certskills Web Page w/ #CCNA Features, Versions, Updated
As promised… I finally got all the clicking in Cisco Feature Navigator done, and the web page formatted. This post is a shortie, just to let you know the data is there, and give you the big picture. Next post,
Specific Searches for Your #CCNA Lab in Feature Navigator
If you did your #CCNA home lab homework from last week’s post, you probably learned a lot… including the fact that you can get frustrated using Cisco Feature Navigator (www.cisco.com/go/fn). Searching with that tool requires some decent skills at interpreting
#CCNA Home Lab Homework: Cisco Feature Navigator
At some point when building a #CCNA home lab, you will need to choose the specific devices, from the specific seller, to add to your home lab. For some of you, that choice may be stressful. Others may be more
Narrowing Your Router Search Based on IOS Version
Turn your #CCENT and #CCNA home lab search upside down for today’s post. Instead of thinking “I need routers”, think about routers as simply a place to run router IOS. Then, think about what router IOS version you want to
IOS Version 15 for a Cisco Home Lab – or Not
A good home #CCENT and #CCNA home lab does not require IOS 15.x. There, I said it. Even though Cisco touts the new CCENT and CCNA as being based on IOS 15 (a pretty broad statement in itself), when you
