Hotmail problems?

Anyone else finding Hotmail so slow as to be almost unusable?  Started 
yesterday afternoon, and I'm finding it takes at least ten minutes to 
log in and get to my e-mail, if it even lets me in at all.  And even 
when I am in, it takes ages to open each e-mail.  Sometimes what comes 
up looks like a "low-res" text only version, other times it looks more

or less normal.  Even when it does load, it doesn't load completely, and 
the page will continue to keep trying to finish loading for literally 
hours.  That is through the web interface - Thunderbird is completely 
out of the question as it times out every time.  I have made no changes 
whatsoever to my computer that could be causing this, and I scan clean 
for virus, trojan or malware files.  MSN.com was pretty well as slow 
last night, but that seems a little better today, although not yet 100%.

FW wrote:
> Yes, I normally use T-Bird as well.  However, when it keeps timing out
> on me then I go to the web interface.  I'm wondering if they are perhaps
> having problems with some of their servers, rather than the whole thing
> being down.  Wouldn't be the first time.

Have you tried the web I/F from another computer? Neighbor, library, etc?
Might help determine if its the hotmail server or not. Pinpoint the problem
a bit better.

bob h

John M wrote:
> FW wrote:
>> Anyone else finding Hotmail so slow as to be almost unusable?  
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I don't normally use the web interface, instead using 'imap' through the 
> webmail extension in thunderbird. I've not had any timeouts this way 
> recently.
> 
> I've just logged in through the web interface too, and I had no problem 
> there either. Of course, this was just a one off test and doesn't mean 
> much.


Yes, I normally use T-Bird as well.  However, when it keeps timing out 
on me then I go to the web interface.  I'm wondering if they are perhaps 
having problems with some of their servers, rather than the whole thing 
being down.  Wouldn't be the first time.

bob houston wrote:
> FW wrote:
>> Yes, I normally use T-Bird as well.  However, when it keeps timing out
>> on me then I go to the web interface.  I'm wondering if they are
perhaps
>> having problems with some of their servers, rather than the whole
thing
>> being down.  Wouldn't be the first time.
> 
> Have you tried the web I/F from another computer? Neighbor, library, etc?
> Might help determine if its the hotmail server or not. Pinpoint the
problem
> a bit better.
> 
> bob h
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
Yes, I tried it on my daughter's computer with the same results.  I 
couldn't even get to the login screen from hers.  From mine, it just let 
me log in a few minutes ago (after waiting for awhile) but then gave me 
a "Connection was reset to the server" error message while I was
trying 
to get into my Junk mail folder.  I've even booted up the seldom used 
IE7 to see if it was possibly a Firefox problem, but got exactly the 
same results from IE7.

Everything just came through T-bird (after 27 hours!!).  I tried the web 
interface as well, and it let me in reasonably quickly.  I'm thinking 
the problem was on their end after all.  Hopefully it will stay working 
OK.  Now I'm off to deal with 31 e-mails.