The
Alcatel Speedtouch USB is an
ADSL modem by the
french electronics giant
Alcatel. Selling pretty well in
Europe, this nifty little device gained much of its popularity by Alcatel's clever decision to release the
firmware and some basic management tools, probably realising the limitations of their product due to its reliance of the rather slow
USB port.
Although closed source, the source code was lapped up by the free *nix community, and drivers are available for Linux and the BSD's thanks to Benoit Papillaut and Francois Rogler. Out of the box the modem supports OS X, Mac OS 8.6 and higher and the unfortunate users of Windows Operating Systems.
I find this product especially useful as it runs beautifully with each of my machines: a old P100 OpenBSD Box, my 500 Mhz Ibook and a 7200.
Hardware Specifications
http://speedtouch.com