Talk:SpeedTouch 330

Linux
Is there a single Linux distribution that supports this modem out of the box? 0L1 15:41, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I dont believe so. Matthew  Fenton  ( contribs ) 15:44, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

DistroWatch today lists Kiwi Linux 8.08 as supporting this modem out of the box. http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05062. Geneven (talk) 17:24, 29 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Why don't they support it? Couldn't the firmware could be taken from [www.steve-parker.org/speedtouch]? 0L1 17:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure, in my 330s theyve never included any linux distro. Matthew  Fenton  ( contribs ) 21:08, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Well if you install IPCop etc, it can work just by importing the firmware into the browser, they just dont ship it with any distro, so yes, its easy to setup on many many distros.

Drivers
Anyone know where the (windows) speedtouch 330 drivers are now anyway? (offically speaking, speedtouch.co.uk is no longer). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.104.39.52 (talk) 13:30, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Darrenforster99 (talk) 09:07, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

That's cos Speedtouch is just the item name - like Presario is the name of a laptop, or Micra is the name of a car. There are numerous companies that make the speedtouch, one of the main ones is Thomson (now owned by Technicolor).

IF you go to this site Technicolor and then put in United Kingdom for Your country, ST330 for product reference (or if your device isn't the 330 go for the correct number), and select "no release" for Choose a release of this product (note - if you select All here it doesn't show anything, but selecting no release shows all the drivers - not very customer friendly!). Click Ok and it will show you all the drivers.

Also here are the links to all of them (also made them a bit more obvious as to which one is for which OS, on the official website you have to hover over each link and look in the status bar to find it out

PC

Vista

XP 64-bit

Windows 98/XP

Mac

OS X 10.4

OS X 10.1 - 10.3

OS 9

USB in Windows 98
I think the section about USB support in Windows 98 is inacurate. It implies Windows 98 was the first version of Windows to support USB. However there was an edtion of windows 95 called Windows 95 with USB support. I doubt that would allow the Speedtouch 330 to work either, although I havn't tried it.

VOIP compatible?
Is the SpeedTouch USB compatible for VOIP in Australia? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.206.121.120 (talk) 12:29, 12 May 2007 (UTC).


 * VOIP should work over any broadband connection, but unlike, say, the SpeedTouch 780, you cannot connect a handset directly to the SpeedTouch USB/330 as it is just a basic USB modem. Shiroi Hane 21:19, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

VISTA USB Issue?
I have used the latest drivers from Thomson for Speedtouch 330 and found that sometimes USB transfer mode (BULK, ISOCHRONUS) can cause slow speeds in VISTA. In XP there is a foced selection of USB mode from BULK to ISOCHRONUS and this can be done in USB TAB of Speedtouch diagnostics application. In VISTA this GUI is different and there is no solution to force the USB to ISOCHRONUS mode for connections above 2Mbps. If someone has solution please post it here and add this to main page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.74.177.146 (talk) 14:05, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

Why does Vista not support DSL modems? 2fort5r (talk) 08:39, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Darrenforster99 (talk) 08:45, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Vista does support some DSL modems, just not this type of modem. A lot of items were ditched in Vista, to force computer users to get new items. The main reason though for the ditching was to increase stability in the operating system as there were a lot of old legacy products out there that was causing stability issues and slowing Windows down. I went to Vista 64 and was really disappointed that my Hauppauge WinTV Theatre no longer worked with it and there was no plans to produce a driver for Brooktree 848 video chipsets, but that didn't bother me I'd had my money's worth out of it, and as it was analogue it wont work now anyway in the North-West without an additional set top box/sky box - now I keep trying to get hold of a WinTV Nova S2 HD satellite card - always out of stock when I go to Scan.

Also it is not a good idea anyway to use a DSL modem, it is far more simpler and safer to use a router, as many routers have built in hardware firewalls, and run internally on a form of Linux so are a lot less likely to be affected by DOS (Denial of Service) attacks, and they keep your computer far more safer than going through a modem as with a modem you only have a software firewall protecting you from the internet (unless of course you turned off Windows firewall, then you have nothing protecting you). NB - you still need an anti-virus as DOS attacks and virus attacks are totally different. The only thing that can make a router less secure is if you leave your wi-fi open with no password.

As for the person who has criticised Kingston Communications on the main Wiki page, at least their doing the decent thing and telling their customers to give up on getting this modem to work under Vista, unlike many others that are telling their customers that it should work and wasting their time.

Smashing!
This article is grammatically poor and reads badly (Compatibility Issues section starts with the sentence "They are notorious..".)

Is it also factually incorrect, particularly with regard to the section stating that connection sharing requires a Microsoft Server O/S with either RRAS or ISA Server. All of Microsoft's desktop and server operating systems have had inbuilt support for Internet Connection Sharing for quite some time. A typical user would simply switch on Connection Sharing on their XP or Vista desktop.

"It is not possible to build a LAN using this". Followed by a new sentence "Unless ...". Who wrote this garbage?

The statement about "other NAT-providing O/S's such as GNU/Linux" looks like it was added as an afterthought, as does the "Unless.."

Rather than listing these standard modem traits as a critique of the Speedtouch 330, perhaps it would be better to state that a Modem is a Modem, and a Router is a Router. For sharing a connection amongst multiple computers, a Router (with inbuilt modem) is usually required. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Carl0s (talk • contribs) 16:40, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:27, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Hub?
Can someone answer a simple question on this?

Could this modem ever be classified as a Hub? I have this set up with an older looking version of the speedtouch 330 and of course works with physical wire to one compyter.

Someone said it is also called a Hub but I think this can only be called a modem? Can some answer one way or another - much appreciated. I will check back here to see if there is an answer. from Diane in Scotland on 5th March 2008.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.113.57.167 (talk • contribs) 5 March 2008


 * The ST330 cannot be described as a hub, it is merely a basic USB modem. Shiroi Hane (talk) 13:53, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Linux compatibility issues
Currently there is speedtch drivers and the firmware is loaded via udev so no external script (modem_run) is needed. Uzytkownik (talk) 14:49, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Merger
This article is really a large mess of uncited WP:OR, opinion and WP:NOTMANUAL material. Rather than cut it down to get it to Wikipedia standards, would like to suggest that it should be redirected to SpeedTouch and the entry there on the 330 expanded somewhat instead. I would like to hear from other editors watching this page. - Ahunt (talk) 22:53, 29 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Okay it has been a week now with no objections, so I will go ahead and redirect this article. - Ahunt (talk) 14:51, 5 August 2010 (UTC)