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[barndoor]

Congrats  OldYellr  ... it's always  nice when there is a plus side to a breakdown . 

[barndoor]

Okay,  so for anyone wondering  here is the way it seems to work  re the online offline thing.  If you sign in and then sign out in under a certain amount of time  ... seems like between three and 5 minutes you can sign out and your name comes off the list immediately  ...  as soon as your account has been idle for that 3-5 minute  period of time  you will be considered  online until you have been idle  for 60 minutes ...then you are automatically signed out . Even if you come back and read and actually sign out  ... it won't consider you offline  until your 60 minutes of idle time are past. 

I don't see how that has anything to  do with security ... because it basically only applies to the  bulletin board , makes it look like you are here when you are  not and doesn't seem  to  apply to My Rogers anyway ... go figure eh ? 

[OLDYELLR]

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@OLDYELLR wrote:

Well, my old laptop died and had to get a new (to me) one. This one is still Windows 7, but a lot faster.  And the sign in problem is gone! I don't know if it's the faster processor or something Rogers has done, but the problem is gone.

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This was in January. Just to explain, for the last few months with the new laptop the sign in was not perfect, but I was getting 3 consecutive screens, the last two being the email/password screen, but I had to wait for the last one because only that one worked. I was good with that because at least it was consistent. Now, for the last couple of days I've been getting the email/password screen right away and it works. So it looks like someone's been working on this problem all along and finally got it fixed. Bravo! I hope I haven't jinxed it.

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@OLDYELLR:

Whenever I tried to login via the (blue Sign-in) link at the top right of the screen, I also had to click on it twice (not thrice like you).

Today I clicked on it and was able to sign in on the first click.  I'm glad you noticed this.  I tested it twice.

This is not normally how I login though. Normally I view the various threads without logging in and only login if I wish to reply. If I click on "reply", I'm usually able to login on the first screen and I'm taken to the "reply screen" (after clicking my account popup since I have two accounts (one for PAYGo, one for Cable/Phone/Internet).

[OLDYELLR]

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@57 wrote:

@OLDYELLR:

Whenever I tried to login via the (blue Sign-in) link at the top right of the screen, I also had to click on it twice (not thrice like you).

Today I clicked on it and was able to sign in on the first click.  I'm glad you noticed this.  I tested it twice.

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Maybe I wasn't quite clear. Previously I didn't actually have to click three times, but I got 3 screens in succession after clicking my bookmark for notifications. The last two were the email/password screen, but if I clicked the first one of those, it threw me into a loop, but the second would work.  Perhaps for someone with a lightning fast internet connection (mine is 15 Mbps DSL) those first 2 screens would flash by and not get noticed.