Alternative IRC

[AnimEcoli]

What is a good alternative irc than mirc? The reason is that mirc freezes on me when i try to download off bots. i am using xp.

[Robotnik]

I've been using Miranda IM (http://www.miranda-im.org/) as an all-in-one so I can be on IRC, Yahoo, MSN, etc at the same time; iirc you'll have to d/l the separate irc protocol dll on their site. Miranda's got its own quirks but I'm not going back to mIRC. Not sure if there's a workaround for that mIRC "dccserver +59" port trick, but that tends to be for fservs.

Freezing might be caused by other things though, like network card drivers.

[hobbes_fan]

I've used IceChat. for chat purposes only though, and that works. I'm still yet to try d/l stuff with it. I'm a bt pressed for time ATM so I can't go through this thread for you but it may have some other alternatives as well. http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=36280

[martino]

Try HydraIRC and/or X-Chat 2. I tried the latter, and well it was very good for basic stuff with many available scripts for it.