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Q: Hotmail Users: Does your hotmail time out everyday between 3 and 4? Is the Great Firewall to blame?
It's so frustrating! Here I am sat at work and I can't open/send emails from my hotmail. This happens everyday between the hours of 3 and 4, and has had me bashing the keyboards for about 3 weeks now. Anyone experience this?
11 years 14 weeks ago in Web & Technology - China
No, 'fraid I havent had that problem and I dont have a VPN.
I stopped using hotmail ages ago after I discovered Gmail from a nice hispanic girl that introduced me to gmail and actually helped me create my account. I am however having trouble on the one site I frequently visit from time to time and that site is Yahoo.
I can't seem to open some of the pages/ articles.
Do you know hotmail is getting transferred to another site over the next few months?
I have the new version on my Tablet and I hate it
never got a problem using hotmail, i poen it with google chrome, sometimes with internet explorer
Hotmail is being "upgraded" to Outlook (vomit). Just like MSN (oops! "Windows" Messenger") is being "upgraded" to Skype. Hotmail used to have notifications that its servers would be sporadic at certain hours depending on where your account was based. There was a push a few years ago to get Hotmail users to transfer their accounts to China servers to make things "faster". Gmail is a crap-shoot here, too. If you want totally problem-free email service, have everyone add "I Love China, China #1" in their subject headings.
Sinobear:
Never had a problem receiving such emails...and even wumaos send me a cut of the action for having such 'harmonious' email accounts.
It is hit or miss, but basically I have come to my own conclusion that hotmail sucks balls in China, and gmail works 10 times better here. However, gmail also has its hiccups here now and then.
Hotmail really sucks sometimes. Since they upgraded it to outlook the interface is a lot nicer but it hardly works half the time. Sending messages is a pain, and it often ends up with the "delivery failed" notice. I have to use a VPN to get it working properly. Gmail isn't much better either.
Before it was outlook, I did not have much problems. However, now I find lately that it takes between 5 to 30 minutes for my page to load when I try to sign in. Sometimes it may also take an additional ten minutes for me to be able to actually open my mail.
This comes and goes. Works fine for a few weeks, then gets like this for a few, then back again.
Very frustrating....
Since it has become Outlook, it has become the biggest piece of shit that Microsoft have done, and they have a history of such balls-ups.
Attachments sometimes fail to attach, messages take ages to load, the site freezes, and it's boring to look at and is actually more complicated than Hotmail ever was.
Microsoft need to go bankrupt. The sooner the better!
