Vodafone Sure Signal...one week on
http://blog.hargrave.org.uk/2010/02/vodafone-sure-signalone-week-on.html
I blogged a review a week ago about the Vodafone Sure Signal and it has attracted quite a few comments. There are also several discussions on Vodafone's Web Forums.
Some users report problems setting the device up, others problems once in service and that is what happened to me today. For some reason a problem killed the network at home and the Sure Signal rebooted itself but wasn't working at all and just showed the top power light constantly lit.
The device doesn't come with any manual just a very brief leaflet so I turned for help the web forums mentioned above. After some digging around it seemed likely that the issue was with ports being blocked by the router. Now I have a somewhat elderly but trusty Draytek 2600 router and know my way around the config screens so I assigned the Sure Signal a fixed IP address on my network and found a downloadable guide from Vodafone.
This shows the ports that need to be forwarded to the Sure Signal on the router, they are:
I set these up and it restarted fine. The difficulty here is that this requires quite a bit of technical knowledge and each router had a different configuration. The information is also a little difficult to find on the Vodafone site, hidden away on a forum...
Some users report problems setting the device up, others problems once in service and that is what happened to me today. For some reason a problem killed the network at home and the Sure Signal rebooted itself but wasn't working at all and just showed the top power light constantly lit.
The device doesn't come with any manual just a very brief leaflet so I turned for help the web forums mentioned above. After some digging around it seemed likely that the issue was with ports being blocked by the router. Now I have a somewhat elderly but trusty Draytek 2600 router and know my way around the config screens so I assigned the Sure Signal a fixed IP address on my network and found a downloadable guide from Vodafone.
This shows the ports that need to be forwarded to the Sure Signal on the router, they are:
Protocol | Port | Description |
IP | 50 | ESP |
UDP | 4500 | IPSEC NAT Traversal |
UDP | 500 | ISAKMP |
I set these up and it restarted fine. The difficulty here is that this requires quite a bit of technical knowledge and each router had a different configuration. The information is also a little difficult to find on the Vodafone site, hidden away on a forum...
