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Joseph T. Adams (joe@junior.wariat.org) wrote:
: Brian Bulson (bbulson@en.com) wrote:
: : What are some local IRC servers?  All I know is like irc.texas.net and
: : irc.virginia.edu.  Is there an EN come?

: For EFNet I've had good luck with irc.ais.net, ports 6667 or 6668.  It
: is in Chicago and is easily the best of those I've tried in terms of
: minimal lag and netsplits.  It can sometimes be difficult to get in
: during peak times.

I've had good luck with the servers that are geographically close.
Those would be irc.cris.com (east central Michigan), irc.mcs.net and
irc.ais.net (Chicago, but I can't always connect to them), and irc.epix.net
(eastern Pennsylvania). While geographically close doesn't always mean
Internet close (due to the fact that there may be more hops from your
computer to the geographically close server than to one further away), 
irc.cris.com seems to work best for me. Usually very minimal lag, too.

irc.neosoft.com in Houston is also pretty good.

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