Battle.NET account + Blizzard Authenticator + today = fail

[EaTCarbS]

hopefully.

logging in is a pain now >.<

[Korruptor]

Iphone order complete. LoL

Edit: Can anyone recommend a good carry case/sleeve for the iPhone? I know, a little off topic.

While not really a sleeve or case I suggest InvisiShield, it was the best $24 I spent protecting the face of my iPhone and it lasts forever. An additional benefit was that it seem to make the touch-screen more sensitive.

[Korruptor]

I'm going to switch to an iphone authenticator for the sole reason that I can tell when the damn key is going to expire.

I just switched to the iPhone authenticator and like you said Fur, it's great knowing just how long you have before it expires!

Just for grins I setup my browser to log in to Bnet along with logging into the actual game. I logged into WoW on one account (only tried 1) and then quickly tried to log into Bnet with the same mobile authenticator key and the login attempt was unsuccessful.

The extra piece of mind is nice.

[Moorea]

if they leave it as is they need to at least make it so you can switch wow account without having to log out (and somehow changing realm stopped working for me too after first login when I switched)

[heffner]

I noticed that I had to use every other authenticator code in order for it to work for me.

[Oswyn]

Hey Osywn

are you logging in to all your accounts at the same time.. then entering each Auth number one at a time?

or are you logging on to each accout one at a time and then putting in a Auth number for that account before moving on to the next account?

Each Auth number only has a 60 sec life span, before a new one is generated. So if you log all your accounts at the same time you need to use the same Auth number for all of the accounts. This should be easily done by what ever keybrodacasting program you are using.

Yeah I wasn't very clear at all in my post, head was somewhere else. Yes, I was logging into all accounts at once using password and then entering a newly generated auth number for each account. The first login worked. But the rest did not. The only way I could get it to work is to login with password and auth one account at a time.

[Damageinc333]

There is a way they could make all this work well for us and not compromise security. They could use the same system as the bank of america eink creditcard fob. There is no internal clock or 30second windows. You press the button, it spits out a key. You press it again it spits out the next key. The server does a "calibration" the first time you set it up asking you to enter 2 keys back to back, this lets it know where it is on the 'chain'. I suppose if you press the key a bunch of times incrementing the number without actually entering it to the server, this could cause it to lose its place and it would have to recalibrate. I have never had that happen yet. Is this system the way the iphone app works?

[Bloodcloud]

All very nice, but what are now the facts. (besides the iphone geek stuff

What I understood is
- merging 5 accounts to 1 Bnet account means 5 different numbers (on single Authenticator) are needed to log in, which means login time for 5 accounts = 2.5 min+

- One authenticator for more than one Bnet account works.

How is the behaviour then ?

Can I log into 2 different Bnet accounts simultaneously with one authenticator generated number ?

[Korruptor]

Here is your answer Bloodcloud (quoted from page 4 of this thread)

Prior to yesterday yes I was able to use 1 keyfob for 2 different Bnet accounts, even logging in at the same time.

[Bloodcloud]

so the solution is to create 5 Battle.net accounts.

any restrictions on this or blizzard saying you HAVE to HAVE only one B.net account ?

http://us.battle.net/faq/index.html

Q: I play World of Warcraft using multiple accounts -- why should I merge all of them into the same Battle.net account?
  	A: One of our long-term goals for Battle.net is to introduce community and communication features that will make it beneficial for players to have all of the accounts and games they play associated with their own, single online identity. Merging all of your World of Warcraft accounts into one Battle.net account will enable you to take full advantage of these features in the future.

does not imply that I have to.Hirelooms are bind to account and not to battle.net account anyway. so no immediate advantage.