Just been through an EE nightmare!

Having booked G4 with them, and registered on their site so we can get
online when mobile, logging in keeps telling us that there is a mismatch
twixt user name and password, but it doesn't say which!

So we try 'Change Your Password'.

Then it wants to send us a security code to our email, but we can't read
that.

Why?

Because we can't boodly log in and get on line, that's why!

Doh!!

Tone

On 06/03/2024 17:09, Hymermut wrote:
> Just been through an EE nightmare!
>
> Having booked G4 with them, and registered on their site so we can get
> online when mobile, logging in keeps telling us that there is a mismatch
> twixt user name and password, but it doesn't say which!
>
> So we try 'Change Your Password'.
>
> Then it wants to send us a security code to our email, but we can't read
> that.
>
> Why?
>
> Because we can't boodly log in and get on line, that's why!
>
> Doh!!
Have you asked them to send you a text to your phone?

--
Tciao for Now!

John.

On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 17:22:52 +0000, John Williamson
<johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:

>On 06/03/2024 17:09, Hymermut wrote:
>> Just been through an EE nightmare!
>>
>> Having booked G4 with them, and registered on their site so we can get
>> online when mobile, logging in keeps telling us that there is a mismatch
>> twixt user name and password, but it doesn't say which!
>> So we try 'Change Your Password'.
>> Then it wants to send us a security code to our email, but we can't read
>> that.
>> Why?
>> Because we can't boodly log in and get on line, that's why!
>> Doh!!
>
>Have you asked them to send you a text to your phone?
>

I now have 3 or 4 online institutions that require the sending
of an additional authorization code for login security.
My favourite is the one that offers a choice - each time -
of the method - email or text.
Some offer the choice when you create your profile but
not for each login.
John T.

On 06/03/2024 17:22, John Williamson wrote:
> On 06/03/2024 17:09, Hymermut wrote:
>> Just been through an EE nightmare!
>>
>> Having booked G4 with them, and registered on their site so we can get
>> online when mobile, logging in keeps telling us that there is a mismatch
>> twixt user name and password, but it doesn't say which!
>>
>> So we try 'Change Your Password'.
>>
>> Then it wants to send us a security code to our email, but we can't read
>> that.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> Because we can't boodly log in and get on line, that's why!
>>
>> Doh!!
> Have you asked them to send you a text to your phone?
>

We have now!

Tone

On 06/03/2024 19:11, Hymermut wrote:
> On 06/03/2024 17:22, John Williamson wrote:
>> On 06/03/2024 17:09, Hymermut wrote:
>>> Because we can't boodly log in and get on line, that's why!
>>>
>>> Doh!!
>> Have you asked them to send you a text to your phone?
>>
>
> We have now!
>
While it might not help if the internet access point won't let me
connect to the net, I have a Google Mail addy which I give to various
web service providers as a contact point. I have the access codes for
the Google Mail app stored on the phone. I also have two SIMs with
access via different service providers.

--
Tciao for Now!

John.

On 06/03/2024 19:44, John Williamson wrote:

I also have two SIMs with
> access via different service providers.
>

Belt and braces eh?

I'm going to have to get on to EE again. I found that the X^5's or 6's
(can't unforget which she is now) flat is in an 'EE Hotspot' area, so I
bought a day's connection to try it out.

Fine it was, quite quick, so I bought a month's worth for her.

After 24 hours it informed us that we need to buy more time if we want
to continue online. I assumed therefore that the month's purchase had
not gone through because we were already online, so I 're-bought' it.

Got online. Thought I'd check my bank balance, and lo and behold they
had taken £39 quid off me twice for the same period!!

Shirley they should have the technology to prevent that sort of cock-up?

So.... it'll be 'hanging on the telephone' again tomorrow!

But at least I'm (eventually) talking to a Geordie that I can just about
understand, not an Indian that I can't at all, at all!

Tone

On 06/03/2024 17:09, Hymermut wrote:
> Just been through an EE nightmare!
>
> Having booked G4 with them, and registered on their site so we can get
> online when mobile, logging in keeps telling us that there is a mismatch
> twixt user name and password, but it doesn't say which!
>
> So we try 'Change Your Password'.
>
> Then it wants to send us a security code to our email, but we can't read
> that.
>
> Why?
>
> Because we can't boodly log in and get on line, that's why!
>
> Doh!!

But simply EVERYONE has a mobile phone on which to access E-mail.
AMHIK (not as straightforward as you might think).

In message <usbrkc$uegl$2@dont-email.me>, Soup <cheez2011@gmail.com>
writes
>On 06/03/2024 17:09, Hymermut wrote:
>> Just been through an EE nightmare!
>> Having booked G4 with them, and registered on their site so we can
>>get online when mobile, logging in keeps telling us that there is a
>>mismatch twixt user name and password, but it doesn't say which!
>> So we try 'Change Your Password'.
>> Then it wants to send us a security code to our email, but we can't
>>read that.
>> Why?
>> Because we can't boodly log in and get on line, that's why!
>> Doh!!
>
> But simply EVERYONE has a mobile phone on which to access E-mail.
>AMHIK (not as straightforward as you might think).

One of these millennia, I might get to meet this Everyone person.

Adrian
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On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 13:57:03 +0000
Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> wrote:

> One of these millennia, I might get to meet this Everyone person.

You'll find them sitting on the bench next to the "Average Man and
Woman" and "Them" all waiting for "One Day" which will be the most eventful
day in history.

--
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Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
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Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope

Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 13:57:03 +0000
> Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> wrote:
>
> > One of these millennia, I might get to meet this Everyone person.
>
> You'll find them sitting on the bench next to the "Average Man and
> Woman" and "Them" all waiting for "One Day" which will be the most
> eventful day in history.
>

And on that day, the Clapham Omnibus will at last arrive,
or rather, three at once will.

--
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My pet rock Gordon just is.

On 07/03/2024 13:57, Adrian wrote:
> In message <usbrkc$uegl$2@dont-email.me>, Soup <cheez2011@gmail.com> writes
>> On 06/03/2024 17:09, Hymermut wrote:
>>> Just been through an EE nightmare!
>>>  Having booked G4 with them, and registered on their site so we can
>>> get  online when mobile, logging in keeps telling us that there is a
>>> mismatch  twixt user name and password, but it doesn't say which!
>>>  So we try 'Change Your Password'.
>>>  Then it wants to send us a security code to our email, but we can't
>>> read  that.
>>>  Why?
>>>  Because we can't boodly log in and get on line, that's why!
>>>  Doh!!
>>
>> But simply EVERYONE has a mobile phone on which to access E-mail.
>> AMHIK (not as straightforward as you might think).
>
> One of these millennia, I might get to meet this Everyone person.

You do realise I typed that in a mocking tone (not Tone).

On 07/03/2024 15:59, Soup wrote:
> On 07/03/2024 13:57, Adrian wrote:
>> In message <usbrkc$uegl$2@dont-email.me>, Soup <cheez2011@gmail.com>
>> writes
>>> On 06/03/2024 17:09, Hymermut wrote:
>>>> Just been through an EE nightmare!
>>>>  Having booked G4 with them, and registered on their site so we can
>>>> get  online when mobile, logging in keeps telling us that there is a
>>>> mismatch  twixt user name and password, but it doesn't say which!
>>>>  So we try 'Change Your Password'.
>>>>  Then it wants to send us a security code to our email, but we can't
>>>> read  that.
>>>>  Why?
>>>>  Because we can't boodly log in and get on line, that's why!
>>>>  Doh!!
>>>
>>> But simply EVERYONE has a mobile phone on which to access E-mail.
>>> AMHIK (not as straightforward as you might think).
>>
>> One of these millennia, I might get to meet this Everyone person.
>
> You do realise I typed that in a mocking tone (not Tone).

A sorta advantage of not having a smart phone is that my GP's practice
has finally accepted that I am probably their only patient without one.
Most of their patients are students. Thus I do get special treatment.
I'm probably the only person allowed to order prescriptions by email,
cos I can't download their app.

Tone

Adrian said:
> In message <usbrkc$uegl$2@dont-email.me>, Soup <cheez2011@gmail.com>
> writes
>>On 06/03/2024 17:09, Hymermut wrote:
>>> Just been through an EE nightmare!
>>> Having booked G4 with them, and registered on their site so we can
>>>get online when mobile, logging in keeps telling us that there is a
>>>mismatch twixt user name and password, but it doesn't say which!
>>> So we try 'Change Your Password'.
>>> Then it wants to send us a security code to our email, but we can't
>>>read that.
>>> Why?
>>> Because we can't boodly log in and get on line, that's why!
>>> Doh!!
>>
>> But simply EVERYONE has a mobile phone on which to access E-mail.
>>AMHIK (not as straightforward as you might think).
>
> One of these millennia, I might get to meet this Everyone person.

I think they live in a Clapham Omnibus, m'Lud.

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

Ahem A Rivet's Shot said:
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 13:57:03 +0000
> Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> wrote:
>
>> One of these millennia, I might get to meet this Everyone person.
>
> You'll find them sitting on the bench next to the "Average Man and
> Woman" and "Them" all waiting for "One Day" which will be the most eventful
> day in history.

Ah yes, the great and glorious day when everything comes in Handhi

--
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"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 16:49:28 -0000 (UTC)
Richard Robinson <richard@qualmograph.org.uk> wrote:

> Ahem A Rivet's Shot said:
> > On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 13:57:03 +0000
> > Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> wrote:
> >
> >> One of these millennia, I might get to meet this Everyone person.
> >
> > You'll find them sitting on the bench next to the "Average Man
> > and Woman" and "Them" all waiting for "One Day" which will be the most
> > eventful day in history.
>
> Ah yes, the great and glorious day when everything comes in Handhi

The day when it rains endless circular tuits.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
For forms of government let fools contest
Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope

In article <1qq22bw.au0m5e1klpuifN%snipeco.2@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
<snipeco.2@gmail.com> on Thu, 7 Mar 2024 at 15:19:26 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
>Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 13:57:03 +0000
>> Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> wrote:
>>
>> > One of these millennia, I might get to meet this Everyone person.
>>
>> You'll find them sitting on the bench next to the "Average Man and
>> Woman" and "Them" all waiting for "One Day" which will be the most
>> eventful day in history.
>>
>
>And on that day, the Clapham Omnibus will at last arrive,
>or rather, three at once will.
>
I am not bothered about the Claffam Omnibus, I am still waiting for the
St Reatham Omnibus.
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In article <usco85$14g8f$1@dont-email.me>, Soup <cheez2011@gmail.com>
on Thu, 7 Mar 2024 at 15:59:01 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
wrote
>On 07/03/2024 13:57, Adrian wrote:
>> In message <usbrkc$uegl$2@dont-email.me>, Soup <cheez2011@gmail.com> writes
>>> On 06/03/2024 17:09, Hymermut wrote:
>>>> Just been through an EE nightmare!
>>>>  Having booked G4 with them, and registered on their site so we can
>>>> get  online when mobile, logging in keeps telling us that there is a
>>>> mismatch  twixt user name and password, but it doesn't say which!
>>>>  So we try 'Change Your Password'.
>>>>  Then it wants to send us a security code to our email, but we can't
>>>> read  that.
>>>>  Why?
>>>>  Because we can't boodly log in and get on line, that's why!
>>>>  Doh!!
>>>
>>> But simply EVERYONE has a mobile phone on which to access E-mail.
>>> AMHIK (not as straightforward as you might think).
>>
>> One of these millennia, I might get to meet this Everyone person.
>
>You do realise I typed that in a mocking tone (not Tone).

<Mocking Anthony ON>
You did?
<Mocking Anthony OFF>
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Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
[...]
> >> > One of these millennia, I might get to meet this Everyone person.
> >>
> >> You'll find them sitting on the bench next to the "Average Man
> >> and Woman" and "Them" all waiting for "One Day" which will be
> >> the most eventful day in history.
> >>
> >
> >And on that day, the Clapham Omnibus will at last arrive,
> >or rather, three at once will.
> >
>
> I am not bothered about the Claffam Omnibus, I am still waiting
> for the St Reatham Omnibus.
>

I 'speck it's got held up in some low traffic scheme or other. I read
that a less than three mile omnibus journey in St Reatham took over
two hours t'other day. What a fine way to reduce pollution, eh?

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Sn!pe wrote:

> I read that a less than three mile omnibus journey in St Reatham took
> over two hours t'other day.
The vijo looks like it'd be quicker to walk along the roofs of the buses
and jump the gaps between them ...

In article <rYWdnReYk-a3L3f4nZ2dnZfqn_GdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>,
Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid.?> on Fri, 8 Mar 2024 at
06:37:31 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>Sn!pe wrote:
>
>> I read that a less than three mile omnibus journey in St Reatham took
>> over two hours t'other day.
>The vijo looks like it'd be quicker to walk along the roofs of the buses
>and jump the gaps between them ...
>
>
Tis true. I have been caught up in more than one of them hour long
journeys from St Reatham Hill to St Leonard's at St Reatham. The
trouble is I cannot walk that distance anymore.

I have watched the goings on at various junctions on the route and it
would appear that a big part of the problem is bad driving practice at
junctions. Thames Water/UK Power are also regular contributors to these
delays. RTA's are also in there.

What I have problems with is understanding how LTNs can possibly be
contributing to the problem, other than prejudice against anything that
reduces that the car is doing to our environment. I live on the edge of
a LTN and it has made a tremendous improvement in the environment around
here. My wife suffers from severe asthma. When we moved here she did
not suffer from asthma, at all.
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In article <1qq30r6.1jfa79cuye23pN%snipeco.2@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
<snipeco.2@gmail.com> on Fri, 8 Mar 2024 at 03:45:52 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
>Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
>[...]
>> >> > One of these millennia, I might get to meet this Everyone person.
>> >>
>> >> You'll find them sitting on the bench next to the "Average Man
>> >> and Woman" and "Them" all waiting for "One Day" which will be
>> >> the most eventful day in history.
>> >>
>> >
>> >And on that day, the Clapham Omnibus will at last arrive,
>> >or rather, three at once will.
>> >
>>
>> I am not bothered about the Claffam Omnibus, I am still waiting
>> for the St Reatham Omnibus.
>>
>
>I 'speck it's got held up in some low traffic scheme or other. I read
>that a less than three mile omnibus journey in St Reatham took over
>two hours t'other day. What a fine way to reduce pollution, eh?
>
The hold ups are in a one mile stretch of St Reatham High Road. LTN s
seem to have improved the journey times, until it reaches the High Road.
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In message <rYWdnReYk-a3L3f4nZ2dnZfqn_GdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>,
Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid.?.invalid> writes
>Sn!pe wrote:
>
>> I read that a less than three mile omnibus journey in St Reatham took
>> over two hours t'other day.
>The vijo looks like it'd be quicker to walk along the roofs of the
>buses and jump the gaps between them ...
>
>

Are you offering to demonstrate this, shirly a future on u-bend awaits
if you do.

Adrian
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On 08-Mar-24 3:45, Sn!pe wrote:
> Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
> [...]
>>>>> One of these millennia, I might get to meet this Everyone person.
>>>>
>>>> You'll find them sitting on the bench next to the "Average Man
>>>> and Woman" and "Them" all waiting for "One Day" which will be
>>>> the most eventful day in history.
>>>>
>>>
>>> And on that day, the Clapham Omnibus will at last arrive,
>>> or rather, three at once will.
>>>
>>
>> I am not bothered about the Claffam Omnibus, I am still waiting
>> for the St Reatham Omnibus.
>>
>
> I 'speck it's got held up in some low traffic scheme or other. I read
> that a less than three mile omnibus journey in St Reatham took over
> two hours t'other day. What a fine way to reduce pollution, eh?
>
It's all a devilish scheme. Sooner or later the punters will realise
they could have gotten to their destination in half the time, by
walking. Scrap the buses, get all the populace fit.

--
Sam Plusnet

In article <O4NGN.167361$taff.111923@fx41.iad>, Sam Plusnet
<not@home.com> on Fri, 8 Mar 2024 at 23:22:23 awoke Nicholas from his
slumbers and wrote
>On 08-Mar-24 3:45, Sn!pe wrote:
>> Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>>>>>> One of these millennia, I might get to meet this Everyone person.
>>>>>
>>>>> You'll find them sitting on the bench next to the "Average Man
>>>>> and Woman" and "Them" all waiting for "One Day" which will be
>>>>> the most eventful day in history.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And on that day, the Clapham Omnibus will at last arrive,
>>>> or rather, three at once will.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I am not bothered about the Claffam Omnibus, I am still waiting
>>> for the St Reatham Omnibus.
>>>
>>
>> I 'speck it's got held up in some low traffic scheme or other. I read
>> that a less than three mile omnibus journey in St Reatham took over
>> two hours t'other day. What a fine way to reduce pollution, eh?
>>
>It's all a devilish scheme. Sooner or later the punters will realise
>they could have gotten to their destination in half the time, by
>walking.

Not really, for many who are not particularly mobile. On Thursday the
bus past my home did not stop, it was already overcrowded. I had an
appointment so I tried to hobble, a distance that used to take me 10
minutes, to the main road where I would have a choice of buses. After
20 minutes I had covered less than half the distance and had to stop and
wait for the next bus, due to the pain in my hips and knees.

>Scrap the buses, get all the populace fit.
>

If there was no bus I would be even more isolated. Less than 30% of the
households in my local LTN have access to a private motor vehicle.

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