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Vodafone Sure Signal on Plusnet

antenna
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Vodafone Sure Signal on Plusnet

I'd like to know what routers (with what version of firmware) Plusnet users with working Vodafone Sure Signal boxes are using. There was some discussion a few months ago about problems with various routers and with the Vodafone set-up itself.  If there are now some happy users with working set-ups, please let me know what you are using and if you have had to go for Plusnet's Pro service to overcome any latency-related issues.
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John
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matt_2k34
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Re: Vodafone Sure Signal on Plusnet

AFAIK, - please correct me if im wrong
Vodafone Sure Signal - is really a VOIP system - this means it should get a good priority over plusnets network, if it doesnt then this can easily be raised with the Networks team in the usual method (data capture of what is being transmitted by the device)
There should be almost no issues with the setting up the device itself, but id recommend putting it in a DMZ, to ensure the routers firewall does not interfere with the connection. Wink
MisterW
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Re: Vodafone Sure Signal on Plusnet

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Vodafone Sure Signal - is really a VOIP system - this means it should get a good priority over plusnets network

I believe its actually an IPSec VPN system. It creates a VPN tunnel to the Vodafone servers to carry the GSM traffic. Given that, it won't be seen by the PlusNet traffic management as VOIP, rather as IPSec which on some tariffs is restricted.

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bobpullen
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Re: Vodafone Sure Signal on Plusnet

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I believe its actually an IPSec VPN system. It creates a VPN tunnel to the Vodafone servers to carry the GSM traffic. Given that, it won't be seen by the PlusNet traffic management as VOIP, rather as IPSec which on some tariffs is restricted.

Not to an extent where it's going to cause problems though. The traffic's still high priority, even if it is rate limited. We've a number of people here who use the devices at home and they don't have any problems. There's a couple in the office too. One is hooked up to a Thomson 585v8 whilst the other is using a 2Wire 1800HG.

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tbowker
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Re: Vodafone Sure Signal on Plusnet

Hi Bob,
Just came across your post whilst trying to setup my vodafone sure signal box with my TG585 v8 router. I have visited the vodafone troubleshooting (http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/Vodafone-Sure-Signal/Sure-Signal-Light-1-On-Light-2-Flashing/td-p/495...) guide & the port forwarding (http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Thomson-Alcatel/TG585v8/Vodafone_Sure_Signal....) page for help and have setup a Game/Application forwarding ports 50,4500,500 & 123 and this is linked to a profile of my Sure Signal box which I have set to always assign the same IP. However I am still in the situation of having the @ light flashing on my sure signal. Any help on how your router is setup would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Tim
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Re: Vodafone Sure Signal on Plusnet

I have it set up on with a draytek Vigor 2710n router and there is also 1 set up on a 3com office connect router.
I gather the main issues with getting them to work is more due to latency than speed.
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Re: Vodafone Sure Signal on Plusnet

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Any help on how your router is setup would be much appreciated.

Hi Tim,
We just plugged it in and it worked straight out of the box. Do you have any other port forwarding rules set up? I think the Sure Signal shares ports with certain Cisco VPN set-ups. You might also want to check that UPnP is switched on.

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