01. Go to the Neowin I.R.C: User Control Panel and set up your username by entering it in the box and then clicking "Update IRC Nickname"


02. Read the Network Rules

03. Download and install XChat

04. Open up the XChat client

A.On the first load the Network List will load, you may delete the channels that you dont want off this list if you want.

05.Click the ADD button next to the Network List

06.Give the Network a name in the text box that appeard in the Networks area (EG: Neowin), Then select the network and click edit.


07.In the top where says "newserver/6667" click that and edit it to say "irc.neowin.net/6667" untick the box that says


08.Now unclick the checkbox next to "Use global user information" and in the boxes that appear insert the following details:

• Nickname: <The nickname you selected in the user control pannel> (EG: ExampleUser)
• Second choice: the same as above but with a | at the end (EG: ExampleUser|)
• Username: just type in Neowin
• Realname: just type in neowin again

09.If you would like it to automatically connect to the Neowin network when you start XChat tick the "Auto connect to this network at startup box" checkbox


10. Now click into the "Channels to Join:" box and type in #neowin


11. Now also click into the "Server Password:" box and type in your neowin login password.


12. Now click the close button.

13. To connect select the Network you just created (aka Neowin) and click the connect button.


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All trademarks mentioned in this post are the property of their respective owners. Screens remain property of me. Client used was XChat Windows build by silverex using the default theme.

Hum, okay, trying right now, mIRC suked...

Worked perfectly, nice... mhhh, thanks

i'll try it tonight

Nice guide. Good work peachey. Very informative.

In number 10, the subscribers can place this instead.

"#neowin,#subscribers"

no needs, it's automatic.

Yeah, you auto-join rooms based on your user info, no client configuration needed

And good guide

You should post the link in step three.
[ http://www.xchat.org/download/ ]

hey great guide. thanks for posting. Although I do like the look and feel of mIRC better

I also have a question.. If I am on a network (like work) do you know how I can still connect to irc? Like I take it 6667 is the port you are using to connect.

Is there another port I can use that isn't normally blocked by a network? Or is there some site I can go to in order to check and see what ports are open on my network?

If port 6667 is blocked at work, you can use the web based CGI IRC over here. (if you go directly to the domain, click the advanced page - that link takes you directly to it).

It's a bit laggy, but better than nothing

That is the official built but the windows version is shareware because the author says it's a difficult process.

The version shown here is the X-Chat built by Silverex which is free but comes with GTK for the interface which is the only negative thing about it compared to the official built but it's still smooth and quick.

Um that autojoin will not work with all clients (i know it dosn't work on talkative or xchat / and i'm preety sure it dosn't work in hydra either)


But not everyone uses that build so it is kinda useless. and everybody should be able to find it without much help anyway.

Nice guide. This got me onto Neowin IRC

I'm guessing that the IRC server will invite you to the channels and your IRC client will connect to the channels automatically if invited. This is actually a bit of a security risk but I guess the Neowin server is trustable. There's a script to get XChat to auto join on invite here: http://forum.xchat.org/viewtopic.php?p=139...606935c9e14d705

irssi can be configured to auto join on invite too.

No, it dosn't use invites. It uses the SAJOIN command which only certain people (chatmods and above) can access.

Really helped me