mIRC won't work

[Jimi]

Ok, I can't connect to Quakenet. mIRC tells me...

* Connecting to uk.quakenet.org (6669)
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-uk.quakenet.org- *** Looking up your hostname
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-uk.quakenet.org- *** Checking Ident
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-uk.quakenet.org- *** Found your hostname
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-uk.quakenet.org- *** No ident response
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Ping? Pong!
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Your username is invalid.
Connect with your real username, in lowercase.
If your mail address were foo@bar.com, your username would be foo.

I can't find anything useful in the help, nor can I find a username in the options. Can anyone tell me what to do?

Thanks, Jim

[Vel]

Well you should probably change the case of the id/nick.
Like, not JIMI but jimi or something.

[Jimi]

I tried that, but no luck. I don't want to have to download it again, since I'm on a really slow connection.

[sedriss]

Could it be the user id?
Try:

Options>Connect>IdentD
In user ID, type like.. "asffasfas" or whatever.

[LGM]

Most likely you're beind a firewall, this happened to me.. Figure out if you can port forward with your router or whatever firewall you use. (has to be a built in one that uses NAT, I'm sure)

And yes, use some bogus email and "Real Name" like jabberwokki@yo-Daddy.com or whatever, it'll take awhile to login, but you will log in at least.