Connecting to Xertion

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Clients

HexChat

Download: here

Once you have downloaded the HexChat installer, run it. Select 'Normal Installation' from the drop-down when prompted. It is recommended that you do not select anything other than Normal Installation unless you know you need the additional features. Do NOT select the Portable option when prompted, unless you're installing to a flash drive.

Once installation is complete, run HexChat. You will be prompted with a dialog to enter your desired nickname. Be sure to only use ASCII characters for all of these fields, and do NOT use spaces.

Then, under 'Networks', scroll down to the bottom, select "Xertion" from the list, and press the "Favor" button - the text 'Xertion' should then become bold.

With Xertion still selected in the Networks list, press the Edit button. Put a check in the 'Connect to this network automatically' and 'Accept invalid SSL certificates' checkboxes. We also HIGHLY recommend you check the 'Use SSL for all the servers on this network' as well, to automatically use an encrypted SSL connection to the network.

If you wish to automatically join any channels on connect, click the 'Autojoin channels' tab, click the 'Add' button, then add whatever channel or channels you wish to autojoin - we recommend adding #lobby to that list for starters. When you are done here, click the Close button.

You should now be back at the Network List dialog that you first saw when you started HexChat. Ensure that Xertion is still selected and in bold (if it isn't, remember to click it and press the Favor button).

If you wish, you can also check the 'Skip network list on startup' box; you can always come back to this later to make any needed changes, like putting your NickServ password in once you're registered or adding/removing autojoin channels.

Once you have confirmed everything, press the Connect button. If all goes well (and it should!), you should be connected to Xertion within moments and in any autojoin channels you might have specified. That's it, you're done!

mIRC

Download: here

Download the installer for mIRC from their website. It’s free for 30 days, after that it will let you continue to use it, however the main page will stay on longer before the “Continue” button appears. Install mIRC by doing a full installation, enabling checking for updates is recommended.

Open mIRC, it will prompt you to register the software, please take the time to do so. If you are going to use the trial please hit "Continue" and proceed to step 3.

At this point mIRC will ask you to pick a nickname, it is not permanent even after you register the nickname (registering is covered in a different tutorial). I'd recommend using your forum username as to avoid confusion to who is who. The only limitations to a nickname is you can't use spaces and can't use unusual ASCII characters. Chances are if you don't know what ASCII is then you should be fine with what you choose.

By default mIRC will pick a random network to connect to, however you want to be on the Xertion network, thus we must change our default server to a Xertion server. Select "Servers" under "Connect" on the left, and click on "Add".

Another window will pop up, this needs to be filled out since Xertion is a relatively small network and is not recognized by mIRC by default. The first thing you want to do is put "Random Server" under the Description, as this will help you keep your list of servers organized. Next under IRC Server: you need to put: "irc.xertion.org". You should use the default port, so under ports put: "6667". Lastly type in "Xertion" under Group as this will again keep this all organized. When you are done click on "Add".

An automatic feature of mIRC that is enabled by default (for your protection) is to only allow the download of a certain file types. For downloading purposes we need to change these options (don't worry we'll keep you protected still )

• So on the left hand corner expand "DCC" and select "Ignore". You wanna change it from "Accept only" to "Ignore only". And that is it, this will still offer some protection and can download a large range of different material.

Now you'll need to make sure you will connect to a Xertion server so click on "Servers" under "Connect" and expand the Xertion group (signified as a folder), and click on "Random Server" as shown in the picture below. Then click on "Select".

Next you want to connect to the server. So on the left hit "Connect" option and hit the "Connect" button. You will then be connected to a Xertion server.

After mIRC has connected you to the server you will be asked to join a channel. First thing you will need to do is click on "Add" on the right.

One thing you need to know about channels is that you need to have a # in front of it no matter the name or how you are tying to join it. So to join the main lobby channel you will always need to type: #lobby. So under Channel you will need to type "#lobby". Next click on "Join on connect". This will allow you to connect to #lobby automatically without having to type #lobby in mIRC favorites every time you connect to a Xertion server. Next click on "Add".

Since we added Xertion as a known network in step 5 we have the ability to allow channels to be automatically connected. So you will have to scroll down close to the bottom and find "Xertion" and click on it. Once you clicked on "Xertion" hit "OK".

Verify that what you just did in step 11 and 12 were done correctly and make sure the add channel window looks just like what is displayed below. Once you verify that it looks correct you will need to hit "OK".

Make sure #lobby is selected and uncheck "Pop up favorites on connect", this will make it so every time you connect to a network it will not pop open the list of favorite channels (personally I hate that window, and would rather use the /join #nameofchannel command while connected to a server). Next hit "Join" and you will then be connected to Xertion's lobby.

Congratulations you now can connect and chat on Xertion's network!

irssi

Download: Using whatever package manager your Linux/UNIX version uses. If no package is provided, see http://www.irssi.org/.

Using Ubuntu as an example, the installation procedure goes:

$ sudo apt-get install irssi

irssi is a command-line client; you must run it from a terminal:
$ irssi

You will now want to set some settings first of all: nick, ident and ircname.
/set nick yournick
/set user_name yourident
/set real_name some witty comment or your real name

After this, you must add the Xertion network and a server to use for it (Note: Since most Linux distribution ship irssi with SSL enabled, the /server command will also enable an encrypted connection to your server for more privacy and safety).
/network add Xertion
/server add -ssl -network Xertion irc.xertion.org 6697

Now you can add some channels to join; in this example, you will be joining the channel #lobby (Just repeat the command with a different channel name to join more than one channel on connecting).
/channel add -auto #lobby Xertion

Make sure that irssi saves your settings. Type: /save

Connect to the network now.
/connect Xertion

• To change the window to the newly-opened channel window, type ALT-2. You're talking in #lobby now!

• For further reading, please refer to http://www.irssi.org/beginner/.