Two comments on your experience, Rob: 1) I believe Marko has stated before at you can contact ProctorLabs support to start a session after the designated start time, but then you'll get less than your 8 hours (slot still ends at the same time).
2) Regarding voucher expiration, I was told when I purchased the BLS that vouchers could be extended by the sales team. Indeed, most of mine were set to expire last month and I contacted a sales rep and asked for an extension. They were extended for another year. However, I also find the PL time blocks to be inconvenient (and hard to schedule when I want them, they always seem all booked), so I built a home lab using 3560/3550 switches, a Dynamips/IOU server, and 3 1841s to act as R1, R7, and R8 (as they don't need frame connectivity to the other devices). This hybrid lab gives me just about everything I need and with smart eBay shopping and some ingenuity I put the whole thing together for about US$2500 (including a 3750 breakout switch, a small server, rack, power control, console server, etc). Sent from my iPad On May 31, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Rob Pool <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't remember how many sessions came with my End-to-End solution, but I > ended up letting a significant amount of them expire. It was very frustrating > to have spent a lot of money and not get that value. I could have even dealt > with the 8 hour window if they would have at least allowed you to schedule a > rack after the window started if there was one available. > > > > ________________________________ > From: Jay McMickle <[email protected]> > To: Rob Pool <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 9:46 AM > Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] vrack time slots availability > > > LOL. > I have VRACK time, but I don't want to burn 8 hour slots, either! My > suggestion- cut the cost in half or make 4 hour sessions available! > > Regards, > Jay McMickle- CCIE #35355 (R&S) > Sent from iJay > > On May 31, 2012, at 8:29 AM, Rob Pool <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Haha, It seems like I'm good at getting myself in trouble. :) Hopefully Marco > won't put the smack down on me too badly. >> >> >> I really don't believe that I said anything that wasn't true. I'm sure that >> most everyone at IPX knows that their customers want a shorter time slot and >> have for quite some time. The last time this email thread came up I believe >> Marco made mention of some potential technical issues with going to 4 hour >> time slots. The reality is IPX will require a big enough business driver to >> make it worth their effort to overcome the technical issues. Business >> Driver=Money. >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Jay McMickle <[email protected]> >> To: Rob Pool <[email protected]> >> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; >> "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 7:56 AM >> Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] vrack time slots availability >> >> Uh oh. I think I hear Marco coming. You are sooooo in trouble! ;) >> >> Regards, >> Jay McMickle- CCIE #35355 (R&S) >> Sent from iJay >> >> On May 31, 2012, at 6:22 AM, Rob Pool <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Nothing against IPX, because they've provided invaluable training material. >>> However, they've been talking about 4 hour time slots at least a couple >>> years and it hasn't happened yet. I went out and bought my own rack of gear >>> to the tune of over $11k. Fortunately for those that haven't done that yet, >>> the prices have dropped significantly and you could probably do it for less >>> than half of that. My suggestion is do the same if you want the freedom >>> and flexibility to train when you have time. Also, the best way to >>> institute change is with your money going somewhere else. A vendor can >>> ignore requests when you're still spending money, but they can't if > revenues are dropping. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On May 31, 2012, at 4:43 AM, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> Hello IP Experts, >>>> >>>> A few weeks if not months ago I asked the same already, whether there will >>>> be a chance for booking the vracks for 4hour slots instead of current >>>> 8hours. The reasoning why I provided that time and looked like there are >>>> much more people from this community who are interested in the same than >>>> anyone including me could expect. >>>> >>>> The response from the IPX instructor that time was that IPX is thinking of >>>> implementing 4hour slots but had not definite plan for that. Let me >>>> therefore ask you again the same, will you please make the 4hour vrack >>>> time slots available for those who are based in Europe, those who just >>>> need to spend labbing time on individual technologies > and are not interested yet in practicing the mock labs where 8hour slots are > understandable? >>>> >>>> Marian Franc >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please >>>> visit www.ipexpert.com >>>> >>>> Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? Check out >>>> www.PlatinumPlacement.com >>>> >>>> http://onlinestudylist.com/mailman/listinfo/ccie_rs >>> _______________________________________________ >>> For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please >>> visit www.ipexpert.com >>> >>> Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? 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