4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
If you know what you're doing it's great,
September 15, 2010 Ryan P. Green (Connecticut) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cisco CISCO871-SEC-K9 871 Integrated Services Router (Personal Computers)
Do you know what Cisco IOS is?
If not, just stop considering this right now. This isn't for you.
If you're working on a CCNA/CCNP cert, this thing is a great (albeit expensive) way to force you to learn your way around IOS, since there is nothing that will force you to configure your network properly faster than your own home. If you're working on a CCNP, it's got a lot of the features that are hard/impossible to find on used gear, plus you get the latest IOS updates (note that you'll have to hassle Cisco to enable your SmartNet contract since Amazon doesn't have a reseller code to provide). If anything, this product is worth it just for that: the ability to get your own legal IOS images for use in emulators such as GNS3, where you can set up your own virtual lab to play with/break things.
If you want this for your house, it's overkill unless you've got a 40+ megabit WAN connection (don't consider something like an old 1700 series if you've got that...Read more
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Great router but not wireless,
December 30, 2008 scuba08801 (augusr eesm) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cisco CISCO871-SEC-K9 871 Integrated Services Router (Personal Computers)
If you know what this device is you know it's a great router. However, it's not the wireless version. If you're looking for wireless then look for the "871W" model 802.11G Router.
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