Tamriel Rebuilt

chat seems to hate my internet, I think It's about dynamic IP or something (it worked just fine yesterday)

Whenever I try to connect using my home wifi i get either

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

or

<stitch.chatspike.net>: *** Looking up your hostname...
<stitch.chatspike.net>: *** Found your hostname (ircip2.mibbit.com) -- cached

or

<stitch.chatspike.net>: *** Looking up your hostname...
<stitch.chatspike.net>: *** Your hostname does not match up with your IP address. Sorry, using your IP address (xx.xxx.xxx.xxx) instead.

And then the connection times out.

Anyone had the same problem?

Yes - this is a common problem.
I suggest using one of the free chat programs.
I use X-Chat.

Ok, thanks.

How do you connect xchat to tamriel chat though?

To Setup XChat:
Enter your Nickname etc.. at top.

Under networks add a new network call ChatSpike
Then edit the new network to have the following settings:

Under Server add:
irc.chatspike.net/6667

Check - Connect to selected server only
Check - Use global user info
check - Auto connect to this network at startup
Check - accept invalid SSL certificate

Favorite Channels: #tamriel
Character set: IRC (Latin/Unicode hybrid)


I haven't played around with this much - but those are my current setting and should work for you.