speedtouch usb

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some many years ago, I somehow aquired the funky blue device pictured above. Due to its absurd resemblance to the spaceship from 80's crapmovie "flight of the navigator" we dubbed the modem as such and threw it in a box, resurfacing only as the butt of jokes. One day when we actualy needed an ADSL modem, flight of the navigator was all we could find. After much googling, babelfishing, and a little telepathy from a french ninja, we finaly got the blue turd working long enough to download massive amounts of porn.

linux

If you want to use this sucker in linux go check out http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/ and ignore the rest of this stuff.

configuring

to get this rat bastard to work properly you need both the USB driver update, and a config file which properly supports your providers DSL settings. grab the SpeedStream 300/USB driver from http://www.speedtouch.com/support.htm in whichever platform flavor you need. Next you need to make a phonebook.ini file to match the settings from your DSL provider (this is where telepathy comes into play). Below are the settings we used for verizon dsl in new york city to create an rfc1483b bridge to use the windows xp dialer to connect.


[Version]

FileVersion=1.2



[Driver]

DriverType=1


[Maximum simultaneous connections]

MaxSimConnections=1


[0001]

Name=ISP number 1

VpiVci_VPI=0

VpiVci_VCI=35

FCS=2

EncapsulationMode=0

PeakUpStreamBitRate=26

PeakDownStreamBitRate=256

If you google around more, don't grab files with a FileVersion > 1.2 because they require some bullshit checksum that we were too lazy to figure out which points in the file comprise it; besides the installer works with 1.2 so why do we care?

for PPPoA set the following settings


DriverType=0

FCS=1

EncapsulationMode=0