wonder Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 here is a way to upgrade your hotmail from 2Mb to 25Mb and possible to be 250 after a month here we go : All you have to do is to turn off Messenger and sign up in your Hotmail account. Go to options/personal and than My profile. Change your country code to USA and pick one of the states – we tried Florida and used 33332 as the zip code. After you change this, go to update than continue. While you are still logged into Hotmail go to http://by17fd.bay17.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/Accountclose and deactivate your account. Don’t worry - all your mails will remain safe. Now you have to go to hotmail.com and log with your username and password and you will automatically re-activate your account. When you log in you will see that you already have a 25MB account while it's supposed to upgrade to 250MB soon. good luck NOTE : this trick only seems to work with @hotmail adresses, not with @msn adresses I tryed it myself and it works! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 you dont need to go that far... Ive got a UK registered Hotmail account and it got automatically upgraded to 250mg all by its self, i didnt have to do a darn thing... so my advice would be to just wait.. you will get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jai Dee Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 you dont need to go that far...Ive got a UK registered Hotmail account and it got automatically upgraded to 250mg all by its self, i didnt have to do a darn thing... so my advice would be to just wait.. you will get it. Same same for Australian registered Hotmail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
withnail Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 you probably wont get upgraded if your country is registered as Thailand, i did the same thing changed to US but rather than deactivating my account just waited a few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remmy Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 (edited) I read about this two or three months ago and i changed my address and zip to NY 11001 and I am still waiting to upgrade I cannot use it as my primary email because it provide only 2 mb of space but if i dont use it regularly then it seems like it will never get upgrade. Let me try the deactivation scheme It works thanx alot for the info.. I have been waiting for about 3 months lol Edited February 25, 2005 by remmy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherd3 Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 Yup, just done it, thanks for the tip! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 Of course, if you want a real email address.... I've got a load of Gmail invites, PM me if you want one (dont forget to include which email address you want the invitation sent to) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dclaryjr Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 Of course, if you want a real email address....I've got a load of Gmail invites, PM me if you want one (dont forget to include which email address you want the invitation sent to) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yep, a gig of storage and a much better interface IMO. I got almost 50 invites as well. I wonder how much longer before they drop the "beta" designation and just let anyone sign up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefoxx Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 Simply changing the country/zip code only works in some instances, AFAIK. I've done that method and it worked for one account. For another account, I did it quite a few months ago (same time as I did the first account), and it's still not upgraded yet. The "deactivate" method seems to be the one with the best results. Of course, if you're in one of the major countries, you probably don't need to do these things. I still can't get used to gmail. It's just so alien. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remmy Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 (edited) gmail is not good for slow internet connection because it use java applet and download all mails first, until it finish downloading all mails in cache u cannot see any mails, its much better to use yahoo and hotmail checking mails one by one . But lots of ISP and businesses blocked anymails ending with yahoo.com or hotmail.com including BNH hospital bangkok due to high volume of spam sent from these emails Edited February 26, 2005 by remmy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 I still can't get used to gmail. It's just so alien. Give it time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Boy Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 Of course, if you want a real email address....I've got a load of Gmail invites, PM me if you want one (dont forget to include which email address you want the invitation sent to) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yep, a gig of storage and a much better interface IMO. I got almost 50 invites as well. I wonder how much longer before they drop the "beta" designation and just let anyone sign up. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think there trying to get the POP3 working properly first Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beanster1 Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 here is a way to upgrade your hotmail from 2Mb to 25Mb and possible to be 250 after a monthhere we go : All you have to do is to turn off Messenger and sign up in your Hotmail account. Go to options/personal and than My profile. Change your country code to USA and pick one of the states – we tried Florida and used 33332 as the zip code. After you change this, go to update than continue. While you are still logged into Hotmail go to http://by17fd.bay17.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/Accountclose and deactivate your account. Don’t worry - all your mails will remain safe. Now you have to go to hotmail.com and log with your username and password and you will automatically re-activate your account. When you log in you will see that you already have a 25MB account while it's supposed to upgrade to 250MB soon. good luck NOTE : this trick only seems to work with @hotmail adresses, not with @msn adresses I tryed it myself and it works! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It worked!!! Thanks a lot Wonder. I'd been wondering (no pun intended) when i would get the update. Now I don't need to!!! Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melus Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 Just did it myself, and presto 25MB! Thanks, wonder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shola Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 I recently got my Hotmail account upgraded automatically with 250 Mb!! Don't know why but one day I opened it and had 250 Mb space and could also send files up to 10Mb! And I'm registered in Thailand??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefoxx Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 There is some form of criteria for getting automatically upgraded to 250MB with no user intervention, but nobody is sure what that criteria is. Anyways, if you don't want to wait (for an indefinite amount of time) then you should use the provided method to "force" an upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 here is a way to upgrade your hotmail from 2Mb to 25Mb and possible to be 250 after a monthhere we go : All you have to do is to turn off Messenger and sign up in your Hotmail account. Go to options/personal and than My profile. Change your country code to USA and pick one of the states – we tried Florida and used 33332 as the zip code. After you change this, go to update than continue. While you are still logged into Hotmail go to http://by17fd.bay17.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/Accountclose and deactivate your account. Don’t worry - all your mails will remain safe. Now you have to go to hotmail.com and log with your username and password and you will automatically re-activate your account. When you log in you will see that you already have a 25MB account while it's supposed to upgrade to 250MB soon. good luck NOTE : this trick only seems to work with @hotmail adresses, not with @msn adresses I tryed it myself and it works! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> THANKS WONDER!! Your trick worked for me on my secondary hotmail account (now have 25MB)....In my primary hotmail account (registered with "Thailand" location) hotmail previously automatically/ magically upgraded me to 250MB, but I have been using that primary account for a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billion Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Thanks to you wonder… I never could do it without you! I have a 25 MB hotmail inbox now, you deserve a gold medal, Thanks a lot. Best regards Billion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billion Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 I recently got my Hotmail account upgraded automatically with 250 Mb!!Don't know why but one day I opened it and had 250 Mb space and could also send files up to 10Mb! And I'm registered in Thailand??? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You must be a lucky one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billion Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Of course, if you want a real email address....I've got a load of Gmail invites, PM me if you want one (dont forget to include which email address you want the invitation sent to) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Gmail is a beta version but have a 1 GB inbox, if you got an invitation just go for it. Probably a full version is coming soon from Google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billion Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 (edited) Of course, if you want a real email address....I've got a load of Gmail invites, PM me if you want one (dont forget to include which email address you want the invitation sent to) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yep, a gig of storage and a much better interface IMO. I got almost 50 invites as well. I wonder how much longer before they drop the "beta" designation and just let anyone sign up. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Google has a beta now and they let some people to test if gmail has the potential to be a real email client like hotmail and yahoo, wait and see! but a 1 GB is a great deal and for free to a full version coming... Edited February 28, 2005 by Billion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluffer Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 cheers i changed my main account from thailand to an british address about 3 months ago and then to an american addresses about 6 weeks ago and nothing had happened. my 2nd account which i changed at the same time was upgraded a week after "moving" back to the uk. that has solved my problems for a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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