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HIHi SIP (communicator app) phone stopped working

Normalpeople
Contributor
Contributor

My partner has been working from home just fine making calls using HiHi communicator app on her work laptop until Monday morning 3 days ago when it started saying making calls was unavailable.

As a work around we used a hotspot to test and instantly worked so we knew it Was the router.

Managed to get a call with EE support but they couldn’t work out what the issue was and decided on sending a new router.  
while waiting for the router I thought I would try the EE public WiFi (I’m sure I turned the routers WiFi off when we got the router so clearly a firmware upgrade re-enabled WiFi)

we live a good distance from any other EE customers in a rural location so knew it was our router with it enabled. Anyway getting connected to the public WiFi network EE logging in as a customer and hey presto calling through the HiHi app started working………

so why does it work on the public WiFi (not really something we want to do) and not on our normal network. 
tested with WiFi disabled to se if the pesky EE network was causing a conflict but same result. 

any help getting this work would be greatly appreciated.

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JimM11
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Brilliant Contributor

@Normalpeople Take a look at your FW version, wonder if they just bumped you back one version and then blocked there end from doing any updates to you currently!

Looks same to me and ee network still active and working.

App version:

2.36.9Firmware version:

r3.8.11-R-1414606-PROD-83002

@Normalpeople   in theory if the tech support were able to fix the issue, it sounds like there should be an option in the router interface that has been tweaked.

I wonder if there is a SIP ALG option, or could it be a parentel control change, or change of DNS.

If you get the chance it could be worth saving a pic of all the pages on the GUI of the router and comparing them if the problem reoccus.