Saturday, April 9, 2011

IRC and TS guide made by Gorim

Below you have the IRC and TS guide made by Gorim specially for those who’d like to join the meeting he planned for the 24th this month and don’t know how to use this two clients. In this guide you will find everything you need to know for to be able to join the meeting. Good luck.
Also those of you who find it hard to read or understand here you can download it from the link below. The archive contains both the text in .doc format and the pictures in .png format.
download irc and ts guide
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So if you're reading this you must be interested in coming to the sunshineMU expatriate gathering on the 24th of April 2011 at 8am GMT + 0. So without further ado I shall guide you step by step in getting on to the TeamSpeak server and the IRC chat server and channel that we shall be temporarily using to achieve this end. All users should read the IRC guide and the people who wish to finally chat with one another using voice should also read the teamspeak 3 guide.

First: IRC
IRC is a text based chat system that is fairly well done. Here is a step by step guide.
We will be piggybacking onto the galaxynet IRC server. First you must ensure you download a client from one of these sites listed below:
Windows
Mac
Unix
Amiga
BeOS
Palm Pilot
WindowsCE
As most people will be using mIRC, I will show you the step by step in joining the IRC using mIRC. The link to download mIRC is here.
I assume that you have now installed mIRC trial (30 days, more than enough) and now look like IRC1.png. Ignore the registration and click on continue
IRC1
Now we should get a window that looks like this IRC2.png. Fill in the names boxes and then go to servers tab. Click add on the server box (IRC3.png) and then type in the description box “AUSTnet” and the IRC server “irc.austnet.org” (both without quotation marks) and press add (IRC4.png). An AUSTnet icon should appear (IRC5.png). Then click select to bounce back to the name option and click connect.
IRC2IRC3
IRC4IRC5
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If everything has gone smoothly, then it should have worked and look like IRC6.png. (If not, firewall exception 6666-6668, 7000 is needed, or just shut the firewall down) Type in “sunshineMUexPatriates” (without quotation) as the channel to join to join the channel, it should then look like IRC7.png
IRC6IRC7
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Now you are free to chat!
Finally teamspeak:
First off you will need the teamspeak 3 client which is available as a free download here and as shown in TS1.png.
TS1
If you run on quad core please download the 64-bit version. If you run on dual core or single please get the 32-bit version. If you run on non-windows OS you should know what to do.
Now the first install screen after downloading the client should be like in TS2.png
TS2
Once download is completed and successful (Look up TS FAQ section here for possible solutions) you should open TeamSpeak 3 and it should look like TS3.png. Press next
TS3
Type in a nickname and press next (TS4.PNG).
TS4
Right, for the next screen this determines which mode you want the teamspeak to work: Voice activation detection means that if the microphone picks up audio greater than a given value activate broadcast. This is good for hand free movement but many times annoying when you want to keep something said private (TS5.png). Push-to-talk is assigning a hotkey so you know when you want to talk for better control but not hands free. Select your mode, assign a hotkey (TS6.png) if needed, and press next.
TS5TS6
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Now we’re going to test the mode you selected earlier, for voice activation just talk, for button activation say something while holding the hotkey (TS7.png). You can press next when you’re done and satisfied with the sound quality.
TS7
This hotkey assignment is mostly for voice activation as speakers can activate the mic. Assign one if you need to. But press-to-talk users can skip this step (TS8.png). Then press next to finish.
TS8
Now, you are ready to connect to a server. Go to connections -> Connect to pop up a screen with things to fill (TS9 and TS10.png). In the server address box change the contents to “Canada.PublicTeamSpeak.com” without the quote marks and leave everything else and press connect. (If there is a connection issue as in you can’t connect. Make sure to lower all your firewalls and for advanced firewall users make an exception for port 9987)
TS9TS10
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Now the connection is established it should look like this (TS11.png). Scroll down the channels and find one channel that is name sunshineMU expatriates (T12.png) which will only exist on the day. Right mouse click the channel and select “join channel” (I assume there is a join channel button there somewhere) and you’re in! Now you can play around with TS.
TS11TS12
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Now if that’s all done, any problems please do not hesitate to ask me here. But please preferably before the actual gathering time. So please test the IRC and TeamSpeak first.
Good day
Gorim

10 comments:

  1. seriously didn't think that you were such a tech geek gorim :(

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  2. This? Technical? WTF? The REAL manuals that I've written is much more longer and much more detailed and involved than this simple thing. I made it as idiot proof as I can and here was the result.

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  3. TL;DR.

    Wait, are all the old players here?!

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  4. Oh, scratch that, I just saw the date. LOL!

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