Lately I've been having some problems regarding speed when connecting to quakenet.
After:
-irc.quakenet.org- *** Got ident response
I get a pause of about 50 seconds before I'm logged on and can choose a channel to join.
I'm not on a router but ADSL modem via DHCP server at ISP so I can't mess around with ports. Besides I know that port 113 is not closed at my ISP. I'm not running any firewall and the one in XP is disabled.
If I try EFnet or any other net for that matter everything is as it should be.