Recent content by Darkstar850

The icon in the upper right hand corner looks to be a battery symbol. Maybe im missing something.

My CCNP lab consisted of 2 2514s, a 2621 and a 4000 modular router (old old). The only reason I had the 2621 is a guy off of here sold it to me for 100 bucks. The 2514s work great, just look for ones with upgraded ram and flash so that you can run at least 12.0 code minimum.

Alot of those 2-3 and 3-5 year numbers are getting drug down by the fact that the job market was poor when alot of those people started. I have first hand experience, having started in that time frame. While I haven't seen anyone come in and grab a job where I work with a CCNA and pull 76k, its...

When I worked in a NOC, I had 4 19 inch dell LCDs - 2 for monitoring, 2 for working. I had these hooked up to 2 PCs (the monitoring one I controlled with VNC when necessary). I also had a solaris system connected to a giant old sun 22 or so inch monitor. I felt this was a good setup.

That sounds all well and good in theory, but is not a smart idea in the real business world. If you are going to run a business, you need the legal protection that being an LLC or corp can provide.

We need network engineers and NOC employees pretty badly in the Seattle area right now. If you are a good NOC candidate (CCNA, some experience, can apply them together), you could easily get 50 right off the bat up here. 60 would not take long. Obviously im not aware of how the job market is...

The most important advice I can give you is to run your business as an LLC and keep it seperate from your personal life. You don't want someone coming after your personal assets and income for the rest of your life if something goes wrong in your business venture. Its worth the few hundred...

I upgraded quickbooks 2005 pro to quickbooks enterprise (manufacturer). Just make sure to make a copy of the data file, but its a piece of cake.

1.4 Tbird, 1gb ram, 2x160Gb seagate's, hardware raid 1. I don't have a ton of space, but its mainly used for backups of important files from my other PCs in case of hard drive failure.

Ya, DSL/CABLE with a branch 2 branch VPN configured on each end.

I am about 15 miles from Amazon's Seattle data center, and it didn't do me any good.

I have to replace everything if I go to PCI-E, so when I priced it out I was looking at more around 1200 bucks for what I want. Still, 300 may be too high for this for me. I was hoping for close in line to what the PCI-E version is going for.

The 1900 is pretty useless for the current CCNA. The 2500s will be ok so long as they have enough ram and flash to run a decently modern IOS. Anything above 12.0 enterprise should be ok. I completed my CCNP about 1 year ago, and used the following: 2 2514s 1 2621 1 4000 modular router 2...

I verified that it does it for POS and FRATM also. Doesn't seem to do it for ethernet. Maybe its a WAN link only sort of thing? You can do a traceroute to a working serial interface IP to show that it goes out to the far end and loops back. I agree that checking out the far end would be a...