Alcatel SpeedTouch USB Review

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Neel.'s Review of Alcatel SpeedTouch USB Wireless Modems and Routers Reviews

14th Jun 2003

Overall Rating

1.5 stars
  • Value for money
    0.5 stars
  • Quality
    1.5 stars
Good Points

Its good when it wants to be


Bad Points

On windows xp it always goes offline automaticly, the icon in the corner is yellow and it says "intalizing adsl line". My ISP is BT, does anyone else have this problem?


General Comments

On windows xp it always goes offline automaticly, the icon in the corner is yellow and it says "intalizing adsl line". My ISP is BT, does anyone else have this problem?

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Members' Comments onNeel.'s Review

  • bonzi_28504. on 12th Jul 2003

    I have to AGREE with you this modem is a peice of dirt. Go for something else.

  • trout. on 12th Jul 2003

    Same problem, but only started recently. Have had it for > 1yr w/o probs till now.

  • Sinbad. on 24th Jul 2003

    Im experience the same problem.Ive had the modem for about 8months now, and all of a sudden this happens, annoying!I find it if you pull the modem out of the usb port for a little while it'll work fine again, but its happeing too frequently now. Strongly advice to opt for some thing else, mines in the trash can now,where it belongs.

  • greghoskins on 5th Dec 2003

    Me too. I am running the old driver - pre XP, and am unable to install the new ones. I think the problem seemed to occur at a similar time as an XP hotfix or Service Pack 1 install. Used to work fine - doesn't anymore. I can't upload anything at all, whether in an email or FTP. Junked it, went to Computer Exchange and bought a BT Voyager 100 for £28. Fingers crossed. So far so good. I spent an hour on the phone to Microsoft to see if they could help but with no success, I also emailed Speedtouch and my ISP (F2S), no help. I am glad to be rid of it. I do agree with the person who said it slows the system down. As soon as I installed it the time taken to boot increased hugely, although this has not changed since installing BT Voyager 100.

    If it works - great. If it doesn't ditch it..

  • JDigital Rank: Lance Corporal on 4th Aug 2004

    I have the exact same problem as this. I am also using BT (BT Yahoo Internet) and with Win2K.