I've spent a great deal of time looking for the best prices out there and
have found that almost all companies charge atleast 20% more than people on
ebay. Even better, if you can either manage to buy directly from a person
whose dumping their lab or find a failed dot-com auction, go with that! In
most cases, your best bet is to go look on ebay.
Goto www.ebay.com
click on Network,IT
click on Cisco
type in the item you're looking for
then click "Search Completed Items"
With that information, you should be able to establish a good baseline for
router/switch pricing.
>From: "JC"
>Reply-To: "JC"
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Gear for CCNP and CCIE preperation! [7:4058]
>Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:23:15 -0400
>
>Group,
>
> I have been given some great links to sites in which I can lease
>equipment, and rent rack time. My question to all of you who have built a
>lab or who are in the process of building a lab is this: What would be the
>best possible setup in order to prepare for the CCIE lab. I have read a
>few
>of the posts thus far from persons who are in the process of building labs,
>and they are shooting for a price of $4,000 dollars for a pretty extensive
>lab. If I could put a lab together for that price I would jump at the
>chance. Does anyone have a list of sites in which I could find used gear
>at
>a reasonable price? What functionality should my lab have. The problem is
>that the CCIE lab incorporates a great deal of technologies which I will
>probably never see at work or only once in a great while. I live in way up
>north in Minnesota, Duluth to be exact, well actually I live in Superior,
>Wisconsin right across the bridge but close enough. Is there anyone in
>this
>area willing to form a study group, lease out, buy, or lend equipment for
>such a lab. Studying is great by yourself sometimes, but I tell you what,
>you never seem to learn as much as if you can bounce Ideas off of others.
>If anyone in my area Duluth, Minnesota, and/or Superior, Wisconsin has an
>interest in firing up a group study for the CCNP and the CCIE I would enjoy
>that opportunity.
> In the meantime I'm trying to put a lab together but instead of
>searching all over the net, maybe some of you out there have purchased and
>could recommend a good used equipment site. Fatkid.com offers leasing, and
>I appreciate the link I received to it, but I'm wondering how expensive it
>would be for me to build that same lab at home? Is the fatkid lab similar
>to the CCIE lab? Alright I'm getting carried away. I hate technology it's
>to addicting.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Jeremy
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