Online Lab Rental

For those of you like me that can't afford to buy a practice lab I have found what might be a good alternative.

http://www.expert-labs.com/index.shtml

I just had my first lab session from there and had no trouble getting connected. I played around on their ISDN lab that comes with 7 routers, ISDN, frame relay, and a 2924 switch. Details can be found on the website but it was $5 for 4 hours of time. The only trouble I had was renaming the vlans on the switch. Not sure if it was something with their equipment or if I was doing something wrong. Anyway just thought I would share.

Also they have a companion site to this called free-labs.com that offers free time on CCNA labs but the time slots appear to be booked up to about a month out so the expert-lab is probably the way to go.

Hat tip technowiz at ACSG.