dalnet.com

DALnet, is one of the biggest IRC (Internet Relay Chat) chat networks on earth. With thousands of members and thousands of chat rooms, this should be one of the best on-line chat forums on the planet. What can I chat about? Anything, whether it’s pokemon or subjects for over 18s DALnet will have it. It’s not just chat too, it’s also a Napster, but more on that later. The beauty here is that you can create your own chat channel, and run it the way you want to. What else can I do? What led me to DALnet was the possibility to download MP3s, thousands of people share their MP3s ... more

DALnet has been my first IRC server and i've used it ever since. It has a lot of good servers to connect to, and is free and relativly stable. Despite recent DOS attacks (Denial of Service) which have been now sorted out, DALnet rarely is down and has excellent ping times. There are many servers, so finding a local server is easy, and there is always a server running. DALnet offers excellent services. Chanserv, Nickserv and Memoserv allow users to maintain their own channels and nicknames so they are personal to them, and memoserv allows messaging even when offline, so they are always in ... more

I've been using dalnet for nearly a year now, mainly because my favourite channel is there but also because they offer services that many other networks dont. With Nickserv you can protect your Nickname, with Chanserv you can protect and run your channel and with memoserv you can send memos. Recently Dalnet has been having trouble with some nasty crackers so performance has dropped, overall though the service is good. They are usually stable and offer a wide range of channels. Their site has a list of servers which you can use to chat with Mirc, Pirch, or java chat. There are many servers so ... more