Hotmail 250mb?

fletch · 24-09-2004 11:24am #1

Anyone else signed into their hotmail today & for some strange reason now have 250mb of storage?

optiplexgx270 · 24-09-2004 11:30am

No

but i do know that has been on the cards for at least 2months+ they are to do it sometime soon. Lucky you

seamus · 24-09-2004 11:30am

No.

Gizzard · 24-09-2004 11:34am

more hot air from MS, anyone want a gmail invite PM me

suppafly · 24-09-2004 11:36am

They're just doing it to try and compete with Gmail and Yahoo!.

That said when r they upgrading it cuz i'm still goign to use my hotmail account until gmail is out of beta.

fletch · 24-09-2004 11:38am

Gizzard wrote:

more hot air from MS, anyone want a gmail invite PM me

My work colleague signed in today and it said your are using 1% of 250mb....she did not pay for Hotmail plus or any bul1sht like that

Ripwave · 24-09-2004 12:15pm

You can sign up for as many eircom e-mail accounts as you like, with 50MB mailboxes, and the ability to access the mail via webmail or POP, and the interface is far more streamlined thab hotmail.

You don't have to use eircom as an ISP to access these mail accounts (you might have to dial in to eircoms pay-as-you-go 1892-150-150 service for a few minutes to set it up), but once the account is set up, you can access it from whatever ISP you normally use.

Why bother with Hotmail?

optiplexgx270 · 24-09-2004 12:19pm

Because if you ever leave ireland for business etc. eircom.net is a no go its a nightmare to access. With hotmails server replications all over the world it works much better but i use gmail not as it is much faster than eircom and msn.

Ripwave · 24-09-2004 1:48pm

optiplexgx270 wrote:

Because if you ever leave ireland for business etc. eircom.net is a no go its a nightmare to access. With hotmails server replications all over the world it works much better but i use gmail not as it is much faster than eircom and msn.

?? I've only ever tried to access it from the US, and I never had any problems (on a number of different networks).

radiospan · 24-09-2004 1:49pm

Still 2MB for me here.

optiplexgx270 · 24-09-2004 1:55pm

I've tried it all over europe, far east and the US some places are fine but most i found to be very very slow so i dont use it any more.

But this is off the main topic. Enen though im phasing out my hotmail id like to see it bumped to 250Mb

OfflerCrocGod · 24-09-2004 6:11pm

Na it's still 2MB ~ maybe she got the 250MB early because you work for The Great Satan - sorry I mean Microsoft. Did she sign up for any sort of testing for it?

fletch · 25-09-2004 8:47am

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

Na it's still 2MB ~ maybe she got the 250MB early because you work for The Great Satan - sorry I mean Microsoft. Did she sign up for any sort of testing for it?

Nope & she don't work for Microsoft either...she works for a vendor company

OfflerCrocGod · 25-09-2004 4:08pm

fletch wrote:

Nope & she don't work for Microsoft either...she works for a vendor company

It's being done in chronological order.

Ripwave · 25-09-2004 7:08pm

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

It's being done in chronological order.

Looks like it. I have an account from 1998 that's been upgraded, and one from 2000 that hasn't.

tribble · 26-09-2004 10:19am

my 1997 (pre-microsoft) account is still 2MB

still had a four letter password uptil recently

tribble

newgrange · 26-09-2004 10:37am

Neither of my 1997 accounts have been upgraded (yet?).

OfflerCrocGod · 26-09-2004 11:43am

newgrange wrote:

Neither of my 1997 accounts have been upgraded (yet?).

It seems it's actually been done by server not time based so it depends on what server your account is hosted on when you get the extra storage. I'm also still 2 MB but I'm sure in one or two days we will all have 250MB

Ripwave · 26-09-2004 11:52am

When I log out of the account that has been upgraded, I'm redirected to www.msn.com. When I log out of the account that hasn't been upgraded, I'm redirected to www.msn.co.uk.

(I have no idea what information I submitted when I created the accounts, but I presume I must have said something about Ireland in my profile for the second one. Though why they think that msn.co.uk is any more relevant to an Irish person than msn.com I don't know).

So I wonder if they're upgrading "US" accounts and not "international" accounts?

galwaydude18 · 26-09-2004 4:37pm

my account still has not been upgraded to 250mb yet!

OfflerCrocGod · 27-09-2004 4:55pm

Ripwave wrote:

So I wonder if they're upgrading "US" accounts and not "international" accounts?

Could be....my account states I live in Quatar or Zirconia or East-Somalia or some such place, so I may be upgraded next year

SirLemonhead · 29-09-2004 8:05pm

Had my account for years, its been just touching the limit of the 2meg capacity for months now. Can't wait for this upgrade

Hotmail 250mb?

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