I know this question probably gets asked a lot around this subreddit, but I want to know if it is really worth it. I can see it being useful to practice for CCNA, which I plan on studying for after my final semester in college (and CCNP in the future), but many people from r/ccna say that it’s better to stick with Packet Tracer. However, I’ve seen some post in this subreddit saying that it helps with gaining experience when you tinker with a home lab and can potentially help you land a job, so I want to hear your guy’s opinion on if it’s worth investing for a home lab or not.
If you want to play around and see if it could help you, you could start with a couple cloud based systems first. Amazon Web services and Google both have permanent free tiers and linode and digitalocean both have pretty good free trials.
If you want to play around and see if it could help you, you could start with a couple cloud based systems first. Amazon Web services and Google both have permanent free tiers and linode and digitalocean both have pretty good free trials.