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Sure Signal V2 has suddenly stopped working.

ysahota62
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2: Seeker

As of this morning, our only Vodafone Sure Signal has stopped working. All three lights, the red and two white have been constantly flashing all day.

 

We've had it for 2 years and it has worked fantastically up until now.  I am wondering whether it is happening to more people as a lot of the threads I have seen have been posted within the last two days. 

 

I have reset it twice, turned off our Virgin router and it hasn't improved in any way. 

The red light and the first white light had remained solid for about 5 minutes, but there was no signal coming to our phones at all.

 

Any help would be splendid or reassurance that it isn't just happening to us at the moment?

 

Serial number: 40122907468

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SidMartin
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2: Seeker

Mine has never worked!  Each time they enable it at their end and ask me to reset at my end, they tell me to wait up to 24 hours for activation to complete.  Then around midnight I receive an email from them saying due to inactivity they have suspended the sure signal.  This has happened 7 times now.  The last 3 times (yesterday was actually in-store) I have been assured it wouldnt happen again.  But it has.

 

Is anyone using a Sure Signal 2 with a BT Home Hub 5?  If so, can you please post up any set-up details I may need.  I have done the port-forwarding and port-clamping.  Is there anything else I need to do?  (Other than somehow get Vodafone to give it the 24 hours they say it needs to complete the activation process!!)

Mine also stopped yesterday, have tried to reset a couple of times but no go. If it is a vodafone problem then why don't they text their customers to keep us informed. Really hoping another network gets a similar system working soon.

O2 have sorted the issue for their customers - read about the App 'Tu Go' allowing both calls and texts to be recived via broadband at home, letting subscriber use their mobile in poor signal areas.

 

Vodafone are now 'behind' in their technology.

You dont need port forwarding or clamping on hhb5, im using one, just hard reset ssv2, hold reset button in untill lights falsh, while holding reset button still, turn power off and back on, let go of reset after the lights have flashed after power on, that should be it, make sure your regsitered and dashboard says your active

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rbgb
2: Seeker
2: Seeker

Same problem here...

 

I thought it was a widespread network problem as this has happened before. Phoned vodafone support on Saturday afternoon who were as unhelpful as ever and just told me to do a reset. 

 

Vodafone need to have a better fault resolution time scale for sure signal as people really rely on it as it can be the only way of getting phone signal.

FloozW
4: Newbie
Mine too, although mine is so old I wouldn't be surprised if it actually had died completely😄

seamusandj
4: Newbie
I'm pleased to say mine is working this morning.....full bars now thank god

Hi,

Please take a look at our Sure Signal Troubleshooting thread. If this doesn’t resolve your query, please post your reply either below, or in the relevant thread, together with the details requested, including the following information.

Your speed test results from here.

Your ping test results from here.

Your external IP address from here.

The results of a traceroute.

 

Your Sure Signal serial number:

 


VSS Traceroute command

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.

This will help us get the quickest possible resolution for you.

Thanks,

Kay

Or just wait for vodafone to fix the problem on their end !!!!!

Hi Kay,

Sorry for the delayed response, but I work away from home so can only do anything about this at weekends.    Seven weekends so far (and counting) and still it isn't working!.

The results of the tests you suggested are as follows;-

Download speed 66.31
Upload  Speed16.8

Ping 33ms
Jitter 1ms
unable to test packet loss
line quality B*

IP address 86.152.210.210

Traceroute results:-
Sids-MacBook-Pro:~ sidmartin$ traceroute www.vodafone.co.uk
traceroute to www.vodafoneaws.co.uk (85.205.252.161), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  bthomehub (192.168.1.254)  2.009 ms  2.611 ms  2.807 ms
 2  * * *
 3  * * *
 4  217.41.216.29 (217.41.216.29)  10.407 ms  23.977 ms  10.428 ms
 5  213.120.176.42 (213.120.176.42)  11.819 ms  11.479 ms  10.681 ms
 6  217.41.168.245 (217.41.168.245)  10.507 ms  10.170 ms  10.531 ms
 7  217.41.168.109 (217.41.168.109)  11.898 ms  11.580 ms  11.804 ms
 8  109.159.249.236 (109.159.249.236)  11.609 ms
    acc2-10gige-0-1-0-6.l-far.21cn-ipp.bt.net (109.159.249.210)  12.973 ms
    acc2-10gige-0-1-0-4.l-far.21cn-ipp.bt.net (109.159.249.198)  10.365 ms
 9  core4-te0-9-0-27.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.249.191)  11.546 ms
    core4-te0-0-0-27.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.249.185)  11.731 ms
    core3-te0-0-0-20.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.249.169)  10.570 ms
10  peer1-xe8-0-1.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.254.175)  11.785 ms
    62.6.201.215 (62.6.201.215)  11.889 ms
    peer1-xe8-2-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net (213.121.193.129)  11.673 ms
11  lndgw2.arcor-ip.net (195.66.224.124)  16.999 ms  15.591 ms  15.763 ms
12  85.205.25.30 (85.205.25.30)  24.765 ms  24.710 ms  24.929 ms
13  47.73.192.142 (47.73.192.142)  24.940 ms  24.882 ms  24.699 ms
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sure signal serial number 40114276435

For your information, I have called telephone support on numerous occasions over the last 6-8 weeks to try to get my sure signal working.  Each time they re-activate it and tell me to reset the device and wait up to 24 hours for activation to complete.  However around midnight the same day (so, much less than 24 hours later) I receive an email from customer.care@vodafone.co.uk (who incidentally dont respond to any replies) like this:-
________________________________________________________________________________________
Update to your Vodafone Sure Signal

Your Vodafone Sure Signal in postcode CT13 0RA has been suspended due to Inactivity. Find out more at vodafone.co.uk/suresignal

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I now have 7 such emails.  The last one was received following a reset after I had visited the Vodafone store in Canterbury, were they assured me that this would not happen again.

Incidentally I took my sure signal to the store at the request of one of your on-line chat operatives who assured me that someone at the store would be able to check the device was working properly.   Of course, this was not the case, and the guy at the store basically implied that because the device was out of warranty, there was nothing that could be done, other than try another reset.

 

Thanks for any further help you can provide.  GIven that I work away from home I am anxious that my wife has the benefit of a decent signal, which is generally very erratic and often non-existent.