Having issues with irc. Something about a session limit that won't let
me log in plus registration errors with my nickname
reddit / irc

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-zombie-squirrel · 2016-02-29 06:31

I registered my nickname on Friday and I thought it went through, was
able to use it fine until Friday night/Sat morning when I tried to log
back in it gave me a registration error and "error closing out
(nickname@address I dont have). After it kept repeating the error
fifty billion times even though I only tried to log in a few times, it
gave me a "session limit for your IP has been exceeded." Why did this
happen and how do I fix it?? I just want to get online with my
buddies.

the Irc client I use is IRCHighway which seems to have something to do
with kiwi irc recently. I'm really computer illiterate and have no
clue why this happened. I need an ELI5

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CannedDeath · 2016-02-29 10:55

Is IRCHighway complaining about the session limit, or is that coming
from the network that you're trying to connect to?  If you're not
sure, try connecting to a different network.

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-zombie-squirrel · 2016-02-29 22:33

Ok I'll try that.

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-zombie-squirrel · 2016-02-29 22:39

Wait, I'm not sure what you mean by network. I'm on my home wifi and
don't have another internet source, do you mean irc channel?

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m1ss1ontomars2k4 · 2016-02-29 22:42

How are you connecting to IRC?

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-zombie-squirrel · 2016-02-29 22:45

Through my browser. I use firefox

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m1ss1ontomars2k4 · 2016-02-29 23:38

No, I mean, what values do you put in to the boxes?

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-zombie-squirrel · 2016-02-29 23:53

I have no idea what you mean, I'm sorry.

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CannedDeath · 2016-02-29 23:55

In IRC, there are a lot of networks, like freenode, EFnet, or SnooNet.
Each network has one or more servers and its own channels (e.g. #foo
on freenode is a complete different channel from #foo on SnooNet).

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-zombie-squirrel · 2016-02-29 23:59

oh ok.  IRCHighway and the channel is fandomnatural