GeekShed IRC Network
Welcome To GeekShed
GeekShed is a free to use and family-friendly Internet Relay Chat network, capable of hosting chat rooms for a variety of purposes. To start chatting on GeekShed, you can browse our list of chat rooms. You can connect to these rooms using our unique flash chat client, simply by clicking the chat room name in the list. You can also connect using an IRC client of your choice to irc.geekshed.net port 6667.
GeekShed’s chat network is professionally managed with your safety in mind.
Full services support is available to help you create your own chat rooms and register your nicknames to avoid other people using them. You can also embed the chat rooms you create onto your own website!
If you require help, feel free to come and talk to our support staff in our help channel.
Latest News:
- Jan 18th: Quit Messages and What They Mean -
Excess flood – you attempted to send too much data to the IRC server too quickly. The server thought you were attempting to flood it, and so it disconnected you. If this is happening to you a lot, you should check to see if your client offers a setting that will prevent this (mIRC users:…
- Jan 7th: Flash Client Upgrade -
We have, for quite a while now, offered TFlash as our web based IRC client. This was originally written as a quick replacement for the Java client we used previously. TFlash has, however, stood up to the test of time and has proved to be a very popular client amongst users.
We have now decided…
- Jan 5th: GeekShed Management Script -
GeekShed has an officially supported management script written by the GeekShed staff along with users Zetacon and GrimReaper. It offers a range of features including canned messages to help people with common questions as well as some decent channel and nickname management features.
We have checked out the tags directory at http://www.geekshed.net/gs-script/ so you can find…
- Jan 4th: Login Service -
We have, for a while now, had a login service which links to our services database to allow you to login to areas of the site, such as the quote database, using your services login. This has always been an experimental feature however we are now happy that it’s working great and have finalized it….
- Jan 2nd: What Ports Can I Use to Connect to GeekShed? -
Besides the default port 6667, all GeekShed servers accept standard connections on the following ports:
6660, 6661, 6662, 6663, 6664, 6665, 6666, 6668, 6669, 7029, 7070, 1494, and 1755
All servers also accept SSL connections on port 6697.
Should you experience difficulties in connecting, you can try another port or another server. Should you still have difficulties, you…