home lab versus rackrentals

From: Marc La Porte (marc.a.laporte@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2007 - 11:22:27 ART


Hi all,

I am looking for some advice please.

I have a home lab with 2x3550, 1x2811, a couple of 26xx's and a 4700 as
frswitch. I am thinking about selling the whole thing as I am currently not
using it that much, it doesn't have all the memory to run higher IOS's
(except for the 2811 I can only run 12.1 or so) and it takes up a lot of
space.

Alternatively I am thinking about doing rackrentals when I need to study.
The money I make on the sell will provide me with a lot of rack rental time,
plus equipment is always hooked and up-to-date. Another thing is that I can
still get a good deal on the 3550's while they are still in the lab. Once
Cisco announces they're gone, I will lose a lot of money if I am able to
sell them.

What do you think?

PS: I am working on my R&S lab using only the Interwork Expert e2e program.

Thanks,
Marc



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