When building a lab to use to practice for CCNA or CCNP, you need Cisco switches. Part of the decision must be how many switches you can afford. And of course you’ll want to know whether adding that ...

Buy one router, even an old klonky 2501, and you can get some benefit for hands-on practice for CCENT and CCNA. It’s not very exciting, but you can at least try out the CLI, save configs, upgrade the ...