The chat room

[Alicia]

Ok, i don't know if anyone would be able to help. But I am unable to go to the chat room for here. I'm thinking it's because of my college's firewall, which I hope it's not..because then I can do nothing about it x.x so if you could please help! o.o

-Ali

[Susan]

If they block port 113 it can take up to 60 seconds to enter the chat after the applet loads.  You can also try an alternate port 7177

[Alicia]

Well, I'm not sure on the port stuff. and I know I'm not ABLE to mess with it x.x So...yeah...lol any other ideas? XD....

[Susan]

try downloading mirc http://www.mirc.co.uk/

Server: irc.susans.org
Port: 6667 or 7177
room: #chat

[Alicia]

rawr >< I downloaded it and stuff, and put in the ports you said, but my connection is still refused

[Cassandra]

Alicia,

Haven't had much experience with the chat room but I'll look into it for you and see if I can find what might be the hang up. Not much I can do without knowing the system you are on. First thing would be to check with the system administrator on campus. They are most likely located in your admin building but check your campus map for the location of their office. I'm sure tech support will be able to get you up and running. Also check any security software you are running on your computer. If you have Norton Security running you may have to disable it. There should be an icon in your lower right application tray. Right click the icon and turn it off, you should be able to access chat after that unless the campus system has other security measures in place. Hope that helps.

Cassie

[Alicia]

Well, I got rid of norton a long time ago >.> So I don't really have a securtiy thing..I know where the schools Network is taken care of and I asked them once to open ports but they just gave me the answer of no..and never gave a reason why >.>;

other than that, I don't know what to do ^ ^;;

[Sarah Louise]

Alicia, is this a school computer or your own personal computer?  Are you using "dial up" or "dsl"?

If it is your own computer, maybe you could try it from your parents house and see if it works.  Just as a test.

What is the error message your getting?

Sarah

[Alicia]

This is my laptop. And my parents house is 6 hours away lol. I will test it when I go home for thanksgiving. To be honest, this is my laptop, why should the school block what I want to do through their firewall?

[Sarah Louise]

Since it is your computer, have you tried to just use a phone line and see if you have the same problem?

This is called troubleshooting, we have to try different things to rule them out.

You still didn't tell me what the error message was that you got.

Sarah

[Alicia]

oh, lol. It just says connection refused. thats all. I think in Parenthisese it said (6676) or something like that..

I haven't tried a phone line becuase I don't have a phone cable in this room XD..

[Cassandra]

Hi Alicia,

The school has a legitimate interest in protecting itself from malicious virus which are often spread through chat rooms with insufficient protections against such invasions. Having been in charge of WAN systems I can tell you from experience that it is a big pain in the neck and many weekends and data lost to viruses that came into the system through somebodies computer connected to the system. It's not that they want to prevent you from going to chat rooms just that they don't want something coming back from the chat room.

You could use a dial up connection when you want to chat. That would be insulated from the schools system by simply disconnecting from the schools DSL. Chat doesn't require a lot of bandwidth from the users standpoint and a dialup should be more than adequate. You might try People PC. You get a 30 day free trial so if it doesn't work for you you can drop it without incurring any charges.

Cassie

[Cassandra]

Okay, just as I reply we cross paths and apparently you have no phone line. What is the deal with this college? Don't they provide these things? Did you get the economy package or something? 

Can you get a phone line installed?

Cassie

[Alicia]

lol, yeah thats what I said when i came here hahaha. It's like sometimes this school doesn't know up from down.

As for the phoneline. I could go buy a phone cable and put it in the wall..but I don't have the money for anything right now. I can't even drive lol.

I'm probably going to have to stick with IM programs..but My MSN is still messed up. Found out it had the trojan horse virus....I got rid of it, but still having problems..

thanks for your time ^ ^

*hugs*

Alicia

[Sarra]

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[BrandiLynnLace]

Just joined the site when is the chatroom at it's active best? And which is best? Or does it just kinda vary like other chatrooms i've been in from time to time? I'm use to chat & well.......my regular chatroom site seems to be having alot of troubles as of late! If i see some bit of action in the chatroom i may be able to lure possibly even a crowd from there to here. Honestly that site has recently downed right on many & well........my prediction will soon fall said to be one of the #1 sites online but......now for how much longer?? I honestly do not know! ;Dn With a little luck & effort this site well.......may rise soon!The chat here looks interesting & inviting yet........it looks awefully slow not like what i'm use to really! Honestly i could recomend a few things i guess to maybe help bring it up! Interested anyone? And yes i'm talking TG's /Cd's/Ts's & admirers btw. Hope to get the idea flowing soon.