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Review of Alcatel SpeedTouch USB Wireless Routers & Modems

By Finalstryke. on 2nd Jul 2002

Finalstryke.'s Ratings
Value for money0/10
Overall value0/10
no Finalstryke.'s recommendation

Good Points

Looks pretty.

Bad Points

Crashes my machine on a daily basis.

General Comments

Before I connected this Alcatel Speed Touch USB modem I'd never had a BSoD in the 10 months since I purchased an XP machine. This modem has been connected for 2 weeks and I experience BSoD every day, after I've been onlince for 20 +/- 6 hours. Pretty damn annoying. (Have managed to upgrade the drivers to 1.6, this took a while as the manufacturers website download section was not working for the last WEEK - this made NO DIFERENCE).
I've heard that there are some general USB - XP difficulties, but this just takes the P***.

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3 Comments on Review by Finalstryke. for Alcatel SpeedTouch USB Wireless Routers & Modems

  1. Warriorgrey. on 14th Aug 2002

    I too have a similar problem as you, speed touch modem xp machine and many crashes. I'm wondering though, have you managed to fix the problem with the new driver? If so could you post the URL so that i can upgrade too
    Many thanks
    Warriorgrey.

  2. cpidoc. on 6th Sep 2002

    The problems experienced by the XP users can be corrected by downloading the current 1.6 software from the Thomson www.speedtouchdsl.com web site. Make sure to remove all old USB drivers prior to running the setup.exe pgm. If you are using a 3dr party PPPoE client, remove or disable any internal NIC adapter while performing the install of the modem and during the setup of the PPPoE client connection parameters to the USB. After this is done, you can reenable the NIC.

  3. Finalstryke. on 27th Apr 2003

    ok - nearly a year later and everything been fine for months.
    I eventually got the 1.6 drivers when Alcatel finally released them. There was still something going wrong though, but after updating to SP1 on XP a week later everything stabilised and has been cool since... now have a record uptime of over two weeks :D



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