Cisco is bulletproof

Look, if you're Joe Average and you're looking for a router, this isn't for you, move on and find yourself a Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, Asus or one of the countless other consumer-grade routers on the market.

Cisco professional grade products have legendary reliability; I've got a router and a switch that are both end-of-life / end-of-sale that have been running for more than 7 years without a reboot.

Cons...yes working in CLI of IOS sucks; Cisco licensing sucks, and Cisco products aren't cheap

Perfect lab router

I bought this router to implement as my new home wireless router, which would force me to have more incentive to practice IOS command. I was also studying for the CCNA test. This router allowed me to do a lot of programming because it is all aspects of cisco (switch, router, AP) it has an embedded...

Good router to learn CCNA

I bought this router after researching something I could study the CCNA for.....just what I needed to get the basics down.....then some!!!! Not the newest wireless device from Cisco but it works perfect.