HOWTO: Obtain and Configure your IRC Client

[Graham]

This article contains information about how to obtain and configure your IRC client to connect to the Communicate IRC Server.

IRC Clients
There are many different IRC clients out there. The most popular one is mIRC, and it is the one that the Admins use. This list will be expanded as more people write "HOWTO:" guides for different IRC clients. Click on one of the links below to go to the IRC client's homepage:

mIRC (Windows)
jmIrc (J2ME Capable Mobile Devices/Cellphones)

Configure Your Client
Click on one of the links below to go to the configuration guide for your IRC client:

mIRC
HOWTO: Configure mIRC 6.21 for Communicate
HOWTO: Configure mIRC 6.3 & 6.31 for Communicate

jmIrc
HOWTO: Configure jmIrc 0.95 for Communicate

If you have written a tutorial for connecting other IRC clients, please PM me and I will write an FAQ article for you.

[Graham]

Edit: Included mIRC in the list of IRC clients.

[Graham]

Edit: Added link to HOWTO: Configure mIRC 6.3 for Communicate.

[Graham]

Edit: Added link to HOWTO: Configure jmIrc 0.95 for Communicate

[Graham]

Edit: changed link to HOWTO: Configure mIRC 6.3 for Communicate to read HOWTO: Configure mIRC 6.3 & 6.31 for Communicate