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| entrerixxx 2001-04-19, 1:25 pm |
| Hey, I was thinking about buying a router for Lab purposes at my house. Anyhow I can only really afford a 2500 series(2501,2503). Would one of these be fine for doing lab excercises in my house. I'm eventually going to buy 2 or maybe 3(router,switch) more pieces to make a good lab but, I just want your guys take on this before doing so. Also for lab purposes does the amount of Flash & Ram really matter? | |
| Quintoh 2001-04-19, 5:39 pm |
| I asked my instructor that same question about a month ago. He thought first get 1 2501 to start. Then as you move up with the classes, you'll want more functions. Try a 2600 series next, followed by perhaps a 3600. I haven't gotten any yet due to previous financial obligations, but ebay seems to be the place to go. I would recommend at least 8Meg of Flash and RAM, but 16 would be better. I also would go with 12.0 or newer IOS as well. There are a couple of different things with the 12.0+ IOS's.
HTH
Quintoh |
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