Sure Signal/ home wifi conflict?

[Marmitemiss]

Hello, this weekend I stayed at my parents and they have recently has sure signal installed (and it is working fine) my husband, children and I all added our iPads and iPhones to my fathers home wifi network and as soon as we did the Sure Signal stopped working. I didn't take note of which lights were flashing and won't be able to now as we are at home but if there is a known conflict and solution to this it would be great to know what it is for our next visit. We aren't on Vodaphone and weren't trying to get a phone or 3G signal, we just wanted to log in and use his wifi.
Thanks

[jeffkinn]

It was probably due to bandwidth restrictions with all of these extra devices using the same broadband connection.

[Marmitemiss]

The same thing happened whether it was one gadget or all 4. And I don't think 4 things using the wifi is a lot on an unlimited wifi package is it? At home we have 5 Apple items, two consoles, TiVo, laptop, all happily using the same network.
Also, the router and wifi were quite happy with the gadgets being added. Only SureSignal fell over.

[jeffkinn]

It isn't how much data they are using overall it's how much at any one time. A Sure Signal works by creating a virtual private network between the device and Vodafone. If the broadband connection slows down too much the VPN cannot be sustained.