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17-10-2011 07:55 PM
New Sure Signal - Steady Power Light Only
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Just registered new sure signal sucessfully at the weekend.
completed all the troubleshooting but to no avail - still only a constant red power light.
router Asus RTN56U has assigned an ip address fine
SS serial number 40111018350
I'd be grateful for any help
S
17-10-2011 08:34 PM - edited 17-10-2011 08:37 PM
Re: New Sure Signal - Steady Power Light Only
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Edit: that said my sure signal stopped working today for no reason........
Current devices Sharp gx15, Nokia 6700s,E71, 6300, Two Samsung galaxy s2's and a Huawei Ascend g300
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17-10-2011 08:44 PM
Re: New Sure Signal - Steady Power Light Only
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I have forwarded ports as per instructions.
I have reset the SS several times and waited for several hours inbetween - sadly no joy.
Can Vodafone check that the SS is connecting correctly and if not try a resync maybe?
Forgot to say on VM as ISP 30Mb
17-10-2011 08:56 PM
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It could be a potential outage problem
Current devices Sharp gx15, Nokia 6700s,E71, 6300, Two Samsung galaxy s2's and a Huawei Ascend g300
Kudos to the Mo'Bro's Click the kudos button. You know it lurves you for it.
18-10-2011 12:39 PM
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Current devices Sharp gx15, Nokia 6700s,E71, 6300, Two Samsung galaxy s2's and a Huawei Ascend g300
Kudos to the Mo'Bro's Click the kudos button. You know it lurves you for it.
18-10-2011 02:23 PM
Re: New Sure Signal - Steady Power Light Only
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Unfortunately not
I called Vodafone and a technician said he thought it was a faulty SS -Mmm
Will see if the new one works.....
20-10-2011 02:48 PM
Re: New Sure Signal - Steady Power Light Only
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Hi simstr,
Let us know how that one works for you.
The single power light usually signifies a possible internet or data port issue, so if the issue is one of these then you'd see no change. Looking at the serial number, the history of the Sure Signal you have had issues with shows intermittent errors, which would also lead me to suspect something changeable like the connection. There are a few things we can check whilst you're waiting to help diagnose this further:
- Does the Sure Signal show as fully registered on My Account? If anything looks out of place here it may signify a
- Do you have any other connectivity issues through the router?
- Did you try rebooting both the Sure Signal and router together, then switch the router back on alone for two minutes, then power up the Sure Signal? If there was an issue communicating between them then this would clear out both ends.
- Have you tried a different Ethernet cable to connect the Sure Signal to the router?
- Can you try a speedcheck to ensure the connection meets the minimum requirements?
- Try a trace route on your PC to see if there is anything affecting the connection itself:
- On a PC :
- Click on Start and select Run
- Type CMD into the Run box and press enter/click ok
- A black box will appear.
- In this box type tracert 212.183.133.177 press Enter
- Paste the output of this command into your reply.
Let us know the results of these checks.
Dave
25-10-2011 07:15 PM
Re: New Sure Signal - Steady Power Light Only
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Dear Dave
I have received my new SS and am waiting the recommened 24 hours for it to start working....
It is registered and all the port forwarded as per previous instructions.
i will let you know re traceroute if the above fails by tomrrow
many thanks again
Simon
26-10-2011 07:30 PM
Re: New Sure Signal - Steady Power Light Only
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Traceroute has started…
traceroute to 212.183.133.177 (212.183.133.177), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
1 my.router (192.168.1.1) 1.809 ms 0.773 ms 0.878 ms
2 10.27.136.1 (10.27.136.1) 7.975 ms 9.944 ms 7.708 ms
3 cmbg-core-1b-ae2-2259.network.virginmedia.net (80.1.203.105) 8.346 ms 7.209 ms 7.964 ms
4 nrth-bb-1b-ae5-0.network.virginmedia.net (212.43.163.145) 10.591 ms 10.566 ms 11.689 ms
5 brnt-bb-1a-as2-0.network.virginmedia.net (212.43.162.217) 14.241 ms 13.520 ms 12.982 ms
6 port-channel100.ar7.ams2.gblx.net (64.213.176.61) 21.205 ms 19.642 ms 17.791 ms
7 vodafone-ltd.tengigabitethernet7-1.ar6.lon3.gblx.n
8 * * *
9 * * *
10 * *
the speedtest result download 31.37 Mb/s
upload 3.11 Mb/s
latency 14ms
My new serial number is SS 40112876863
I'd be grateful if you could help fix this problem
S
28-10-2011 07:21 PM
Re: New Sure Signal - Steady Power Light Only Asus RT-N56U
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I have solved the problem I think!
For anyone with an Asus RT-N56U I did the following:
Forwarded the recomended ports as per Vodafone advice - SS didn't work
Assigned a static int IP address to the SS - SS didn't work
Under advanced settings on the DMZ tab enabled both L2TP and IPsec VPN passthrough and rebooted the router then the SS - SS now all working - very happy!
I hope this helps someone.
S
I have to say that Vodafone telephone technical support was not 'brilliant' and I cannot believe that a consumer product should be so difficult to setup.....
15-11-2011 08:55 PM
Re: New Sure Signal - Steady Power Light Only Asus RT-N56U
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I was hoping to speak to simstr regarding asus router specific settings as i messed about with that many i dont know what to change back etc.
Hope you get in touch!!
15-11-2011 10:50 PM
Re: New Sure Signal - Steady Power Light Only Asus RT-N56U
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S
17-11-2011 01:11 AM
Re: New Sure Signal - Steady Power Light Only Asus RT-N56U
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Ss was the only hardware I had a problem with!
Fantastic router best bit of kit I've bought for ages!
Especially now ss works praise the lord.
19-11-2011 08:14 AM
Re: New Sure Signal - Steady Power Light Only Asus RT-N56U
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06-02-2012 08:54 PM
Re: New Sure Signal - Steady Power Light Only Asus RT-N56U
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Many thanks to simstr for the "DMZ tab enabled both L2TP and IPsec VPN passthrough " settings for the Asus RT-N56U. I had been struggling for a few hours to get my SS to work before finding the post by simstr.
Shame on you Vodafone for not providing any useful technical support! I understand that there are a lot of routers out there which all implement their interfaces differently, but if Vodafone doesn't provide any technical details or descriptions on what protocols their SureSignal uses, how do they expect users to interpret the required router settings? Guess work!! Vodafone must know what IP (Internet Protocol) messages are being used.
Thanks again simstr.
27-04-2012 08:59 AM
Re: New Sure Signal - Steady Power Light Only Asus RT-N56U
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simstr - glad you got yours working, I'm having the same problem so will look into it tonight.
But I wanted to clarify something:
- did you only enable the VPN passthrough (L2TP/IPSEC) or did you have to setup static IP and port forwarding too?
thanks,
Alan.
27-04-2012 09:34 PM
Re: New Sure Signal - Steady Power Light Only Asus RT-N56U
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Seems to be all working. Hope this helps someone else!
01-05-2012 04:49 PM
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They do give details - just not all of them!






