Has anyone tried the alcatel 1000 DSL modem?

[DumbGuy]

I was recently talking about ADSL modems to some friends, and they mentioned the Alcatel 1000 modem; I did some research, and found out that it acts as a ethernet/dsl modem.. Am I right? anyways... I looked for it on EBay and it turns out to be really cheap. Since I'm gonna be making a network in my house... I'd would like to use an ethernet dsl modem...
Has anyone tried this modem? or at least read good/bad things about it?

thanks...

 

[dszd0g]

I am familiar with them. It worked fine when I had a pacbell line and DNAI as an ISP. When Pacbell took everything over and kicked off the other ISPs, I started having lots of problems. I do not think anything was wrong with the modem, Pacbell was the problem. The Alcatel 1000 does not provide any useful information to the user for diagnosing network difficulties (at least I could not find any). Maybe the firmware has been improved.

I had a lot of problems with latency and dropped packets:

MTR
Hostname: [SNIP]
Start time: Fri Nov 26 21:31:52 1999
End time: Fri Nov 26 21:47:16 1999
Quantity: 900 packets

Report:
HOST LOSS RCVD SENT BEST AVG WORST
63.193.252.169 9% 826 900 643.04 2662.90 9823.90
core1-fe5-0-0.snfc21.pbi.net 9% 826 900 658.09 2647.61 9559.19
rback3-fe2-0.snfc21.pbi.net 8% 828 900 525.22 2676.49 9355.40
adsl-216-102-199-105.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net 9% 825 900 361.84 2687.26 100
77.11

Yes, that is 2.6 seconds of latency. I think at some points I had as bad as 15 seconds. I am not sure where Pacbell was storing the packets for that long, they should have timed out.

I stopped using Pacbell around September of 2000, so this information may be a little dated. I doubt the hardware for the Alcatel 1000 has changed.


Example tickets I had before I got sick of Pacbell:

Date: 9/21/1999
Ticket: 0424546
With: Pacbell ISDN and DSL
Phone: (800) 809-6222

Description:
Intermitent packet loss. Mainly during peak evening hours. Tried
swapping modem. Problem still exists.

MTR
Hostname: [SNIP]
Start time: Sun Sep 19 19:39:40 1999
End time: Sun Sep 19 19:54:38 1999
Quantity: 300 packets

Report:
HOST LOSS RCVD SENT BEST AVG WORST
63.193.252.169 32% 204 300 7.24 17.02 40.69
core1-fe5-0-0.snfc21.pbi.net 31% 208 300 7.19 38.01 2103.94
rback3-fe2-0.snfc21.pbi.net 31% 207 300 7.62 40.75 1354.37
adsl-216-102-199-105.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net
32% 206 300 19.03 29.13 602.39

Pacbell is testing circuit and said they will call back.

Date: 10/1/1999
Ticket: 0323269
With: Pacbell ISDN and DSL
Phone: (800) 809-6222

Description:
Alcatel 1000 lost sync at approximately 1:45 am.
Tried resetting Alcatel 1000, did not resync.

Date: 10/18/1999
Ticket: 0472968
With: Pacbell ISDN and DSL
Phone: (800) 809-6222

Description:
Consistent packet loss

 

[spazntwich1]

<< I was recently talking about ADSL modems to some friends, and they mentioned the Alcatel 1000 modem; I did some research, and found out that it acts as a ethernet/dsl modem.. Am I right? anyways... I looked for it on EBay and it turns out to be really cheap. Since I'm gonna be making a network in my house... I'd would like to use an ethernet dsl modem...
Has anyone tried this modem? or at least read good/bad things about it?

thanks... >>



From what I've heard, almost all of the alcatel 1000s going around are pretty darn old. If it works, it will work as well as any other modem, but if you want my advice, it's worth looking into getting a new Alcatel Speed Touch Home. I got mine new off ebay for 115$ shipped, and it works perfectly.