Having trouble connecting to the TR Chat

[Opiece]

I didn't really know where to post this, so I hope it'll be fine here.

I've recently had trouble connecting to the IRC chat, and I'm completely unable to connect right now. Everytime I try to log in, I get to the chat for about 15 seconds with just these two lines appearing:

<kenny.chatspike.net>: *** Looking up your hostname...
<kenny.chatspike.net>: *** Found your hostname (ircip4.mibbit.com)

Then I get back to the front page, with this line:

Closing link: (~cgiirc@lcy44-1-82-229-124-87.fbx.proxad.net) [Registration timeout]

I've tried a few times now, and I get the same thing everytime.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

[rot]

Mibbit is notoriously unreliable, you should consider an IRC client (the old mIRC is fine aside from a nag screen, or [url=http://tamriel-rebuilt.org/old_forum/viewtopic.php?t=24222]see suggestions[/url])

[Opiece]

I just installed Pidgin. How can I get connected to the chat? I didn't manage to find information on how to get there.

[rot]

I don't know about pidgin specifically, but generic instructions on how to join an IRC channel are available [url=http://www.uesp.net/wiki/UESPWiki:IRC]here[/url], except TR's is #tamriel instead of #UESPWiki

[Opiece]

It works perfectly, thanks for your help