Sending email while traveling in Europe
When I have traveled in Europe in the past, I have been able to receive emails in my Cox email account on a Windows laptop and an iPhone, but neither of them can send replies or new email. They sit ...
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Dr. Azin,
My experience was even worse. I got error messages saying my password was bad. So I wasted over an hour trying to figure out the problem, eventually changing the password for my Cox email. Still no success, but by this time my account was blocked on Cox web sites because of too many attempts with invalid passwords. I then somehow managed to open a chat with Cox support, and after over an hour with a Level-1 tech who knew nothing about overseas travel restrictions, etc., a Level-2 told me about Cox's policy of blocking overseas access. The tech said he'd authorize my wife's account and mine, but that was two weeks ago, and it still doesn't work.
But now, thanks to the misleading error message, I have to go and change the password on all my devices: 3 desktop computers, 1 laptop, 1 NAS server, 1 tablet, 1 phone. What a colossal waste of time. And all because of a totally bogus error message.
Also, I just got back (to Nepal) from about 2 weeks in Tibet, where the government blocks most VPN's, everything Google, CAPTCHA's, etc. For customers overseas Cox blocks some of the same elements, making it harder to troubleshoot in places like China. (I'd expect similar problems in Iran, Russia, and other places where governments are likely to do such things.) When a government does it, we call it censorship. When a corporation like Cox does it, we call it free enterprise.
Well, I suppose you're lucky in that you found a level 2 rep that actually knew about this blocking outside the US :-/
It's really bad in that it seems they don't really care about providing a good service and satisfying customers.
With this and other mail issues (the biggest now is that with the "new" webmail platform, it's impossible to manage and delete emails by sender or date ranges, where before it may have been a bit cumbersome, it was doable, and this is exacerbated by the 2Gb limit that's been in place for over a decade--when you try to view a lot of e-mails, it takes 5 minutes just to get halfway through the "A's" when going alphabetically by sender, and then you get a 502 server error or 127.0.0.1 error, so you can never view and delete e-mails from senders in the "G's" and "H's", let along L's and M's!), I have been told twice that the best solution is to use another e-mail service. Really? Telling customers to use a competitor? And then they say that the e-mail is just a "free" item, and they only really sell the internet access. Yeah, right--it's included in the package for a price!
So, the only thing I could afford to do since I had critical responses and e-mails for things I had to get done while traveling, was to use gmail. I see that it's blocked where you traveled, so I suppose you'd need to find another one... Good luck!
