Credit goes to IBO for making the tutorial.

Setting up mIRC

A. When you first start mirc it pops up the connect window.

B. In here you can insert your full name (Bear in mind that that is visible to all users who want to know), email address (this is visible to all, so you might just want to put bogus info in there if you’re concerned about your privacy), your nickname and the alternative nickname (your second choice, basically).

C. Next you’ll want to add a server. For a Description, put in “HGN,” for IRC Server input “ irc.us.gamesurge.net” and leave the rest of the fields untouched (port(s) should be set to 6667 automatically, if not then do so).

D. These options make things easiest.

E. This is kind of a hairy way to handle these things, that’s why I prefer X-Chat… but here’s how to do it. This is where you automate things like automatically joining channels and making sure your nick is the same each time, amongst other things. You need to go to a new line between each command.

F. After you do that all you can click on OK to save all that info, at which point it’ll drop you back out to the main interface. Click the yellow lightning bolt and it should connect you to the server with the name you chose and it should also join the channels you specified. If it didn’t send an email to kp@bungie.org and he may be able to help you out.