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Build Your Own Cisco Home Lab for CCNA Preparation
Added: (Sun Oct 19 2008)
Many people have tried out the Cisco certification exams and failed due to lack of experience in handling the real Cisco devices.
There are a lot of Cisco simulators offered free or paid in the internet but most of them have very limited commands and features compared to the real devices.
Building a Cisco home labs can greatly increase chance in passing the Cisco certification exams.
And other benefit of having Cisco devices, they can surely enhance the performance in your LAN compared to the home usage routers and switches.
http://networking-newbie.blogspot.com offers articles on how to start building your own Cisco home lab.
With recommendation of devices and prices, newbies can start immediately build their own home labs.
Not only that, there also recommendations on the softwares or freewares that can be easily used to manage the home labs.
In addition, there are also a lot of valuable links, tips and tutorials that can help you pass the Cisco certification exams, and also how to build computer networks in terms of configuration and physical connection.