Hotmail in iOS5

I am trying to set up Hotmail using the new option that was added in iOS5 called 'Windows Live Hotmail' it authentices fine during the set up process but when I go to the Inbox in mail it conitnuously gives 'Cannot Get Mail, the connection to the server failed'' error.
It used to work before using the Micosoft Exchange option as specified here: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2010/08/30/hotmail-iphone/ but I wanted to try the native option in iOS5.
(definetely netering correct password as it goes through fine at set up stage and it still works using MS Exchange)
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

Same problem here.
Started after I upgraded to iOS5. I couldnot getemails from my hotmail.comaccount. My other hotmail.co.uk and gmail account work fine. My hotmail.com password had expired, so I thought that was the problem, but still getting the "unable to verify account information".
Sorry I'm no help, but at leaast there is someone else with the same problem.

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