irc Issues

exoityexoity Join Date: 2003-03-17 Member: 14620Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
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I recently moved from Jersey to Orlando, and needless to say I can not connect to nearly half of the irc networks (including gamesurge). I do infact have port 6667 open. Whenever I try and connect it says "Unable to connect (Software caused connection abort)".

I am using good ol' mIRC v6. (and have also tried a fresh install of mIRC).

Anyone know why?
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  • ZaggyZaggy NullPointerException The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-12-10 Member: 24214Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Onos, Subnautica Playtester
    I've had this issue as well, my McAfee firewall/AV was set up to block IRC amongst other apps.
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  • eedioteediot Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13903Members
    Ahhh, firewalls. Such a good idea... ten years ago.
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  • RustySpoonRustySpoon Join Date: 2003-07-10 Member: 18069Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1608325:date=Feb 21 2007, 07:42 AM:name=emperor_awesome)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(emperor_awesome @ Feb 21 2007, 07:42 AM) [snapback]1608325[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Ahhh, firewalls. Such a good idea... ten years ago.
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    Agreed. Just don't use a firewall. I uninstalled ZoneAlarm ages ago and have never looked back.

    They're all the same bloatware, right next to RealPlayer and iTunes.
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  • Femme_FataleFemme_Fatale Join Date: 2005-06-21 Member: 54310Members, Constellation
    you could try another port. if gamesurge servers even use other ports than 6667
    i used to have that at uni,but i used qnet at the time
    they had blocked off all the 6xxx ports.
    but not the 7xxx range
    i just connected to the 7000 port.
    and i could use irc,just like normal.
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  • BlooBloo Village Fool of UWF Join Date: 2006-11-09 Member: 58497Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1608328:date=Feb 21 2007, 01:49 PM:name=RustySpoon)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(RustySpoon @ Feb 21 2007, 01:49 PM) [snapback]1608328[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    They're all the same bloatware, right next to RealPlayer and iTunes.
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    Amen Mr. Rustyspoon!

    iTunes and realplayer is the worst crap i have ever installed on my computer and reason number one for me not using mac.

    I removed Realplayer because it always had to run in the background. and this caused Itunes to not work? why? Because then iTunes cannot play Moooooviiiies... To place music on your ipod you need to watch moooviiies!

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