From: Joe Chang (changjoe@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 22:03:58 GMT-3
Having your own equipment and building your own lab is the best way to go if
you have the cash, no argument about that.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rem" <rem@digdomsol.com>
To: "Joe Chang" <changjoe@earthlink.net>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:31 PM
Subject: RE: Found a New CCIE Lab Rental
> Just my 2 cents worth, but one of the greatest things about having your
own
> rack at home, office, etc. is being able to put the technologies together
in
> your own versions and decipher what happens. Building my own lab also got
me
> familiar with some hardware that i had yet to put together in the field
and
> see what ios versions work with what routers and switches first hand.
> Although you can rent rack time, which has its certain advantages you
never
> get to have that certain satisfaction from stringing 3 dce cables back to
> back to get a "perfect match", its the best of american ingenuity when you
> decide that you are not going to purchase anymore cables and find a
> solution.
>
> Isn't that what the IE is all about? Overcoming obstacles, sorry I took so
> long but I do love my rack!!! Sell it, hell no, you can bury me with it.
BTW
> it gets half my number if I ever make it.
>
> Ross Montejano, CCNP, CCDP, SCSA, MCSE, SCE
> Network Engineer
> Digital Domain Solutions, Inc.
> rem@digdomsol.com
> 909-245-9180
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> Joe Chang
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 3:00 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: Found a New CCIE Lab Rental
>
>
> 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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