The Hotmail / outlook servers timeout problem has restarted. NOT a Virgin Media problem after all !

First happened to me on Sunday 6th Oct; fixed Thur 10th Oct morning; NOW broken again approx. 1200hrs UK time Fri 11th Oct 2013.

Have run " tracert " and the problem is clearly with timeout's on msn servers; see below. I suspect that Microsoft are doing work overnight US time and that it's affecting users all over the world whom are not on any USA timezones.

MICROSOFT GET THIS SERVER ISSUE FIXED ASAP !!!

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Maggie>cd ..

C:\Users>cd ..

C:\>tracert www.outlook.com

Tracing route to www-emeawest.outlook.com [157.56.250.118]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  10.29.12.1
  2     8 ms    10 ms    18 ms  bmly-core-2b-ae4-1498.network.virginmedia.net [80.1.227.249]
  3    10 ms     9 ms    10 ms  brnt-bb-1a-ae13-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.105.159.229]
  4    20 ms    12 ms    13 ms  brhm-bb-1b-et-410-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.175.42]
  5     *       27 ms     *     brhm-bb-1c-ae7-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.174.102]
  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9    30 ms    29 ms    24 ms  204.152.141.124
 10    26 ms    21 ms    33 ms  xe-10-1-0-0.am2-96c-1a.ntwk.msn.net [207.46.42.78]
 11    42 ms    30 ms    32 ms  xe-1-1-1-0.ams-96c-1b.ntwk.msn.net [207.46.42.90]
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 19     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 20     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 21     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 22     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 23     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 24     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 25     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 26     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 27     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 28     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 29     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 30     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Trace complete.

C:\>tracert www.hotmail.com

Tracing route to dispatch.kahuna.glbdns2.microsoft.com [157.55.43.17]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     6 ms     8 ms     7 ms  10.29.12.1
  2     8 ms     8 ms    22 ms  bmly-core-2b-ae4-1495.network.virginmedia.net [80.1.227.241]
  3    23 ms     9 ms    10 ms  brnt-bb-1a-ae13-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.105.159.229]
  4    13 ms    14 ms    13 ms  brhm-bb-1b-et-700-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.175.38]
  5    16 ms    13 ms    13 ms  brhm-bb-1c-ae7-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.174.102]
  6    27 ms     *        *     tcl5-ic-2-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [212.250.15.210]
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8    20 ms    55 ms    19 ms  xe-8-1-0-0.lts-96cbe-1a.ntwk.msn.net [207.46.34.1]
  9    30 ms    24 ms    24 ms  xe-4-1-1-0.db3-96c-1a.ntwk.msn.net [207.46.34.61]
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11    30 ms    36 ms    29 ms  origin.du112w.dub112.mail.live.com [157.55.43.17]

Trace complete.

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