From: Joe Chang (changjoe@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 19:59:50 GMT-3
Todd, that's true if two assumptions hold: that the secondary market for
Cisco gear still holds up by the time you get your CCIE and your personal
finances can do without the use of several thousand dollars until that time.
p.s. the lab rental guys are paying me lots of money to say this =)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Carswell" <acarswell@nc.rr.com>
To: "Edward W. Boggs" <eboggs@adelphia.net>
Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: Found a New CCIE Lab Rental
> I checked out this site. I really don't have a problem with renting
> rack time, but the home page starts off with a schpiel trying to
> convince the reader that it is much more economical to rent rack time
> than buy your own equipment (a self serving statement). They even go so
> far as to tell you that you could possibly spend up to $25,000 for lab
> equipment - a laughable statement, to say the least.
>
> In reality, it's much more economical to buy your own equipment because
> you'll get most, if not all, of your money back when you re-sell it.
>
> Unless these rack rental places are planning to give users refunds after
> they get their CCIE numbers, the math doesn't add up.
>
> My philosophy: Buy your own equipment and rent some rack time to do ATM
> and Voice. It's much cheaper.
>
> Todd
>
>
>
> Edward W. Boggs wrote:
>
> >Was looking through the search engines and found a new CCIE Lab Rental
with
> >3550 EMI's.. the url is www.aadesign.net
> >
> >Ed
> >.
> .
.
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