Apparently this is a bit of a problem....
If you are on a COLLEGE LAN, and you want to access the chatroom, please PM me, and I will help you out or send you an alternate URL to access the chatroom while you're in college.
What is the problem?
The problem lies in the way the colleges configured the LAN, any chat/instant messaging programs are usually BLOCKED, as such their ports are as well (6667 for IRC, that is the default for MOST networks.) This causes a big problem, but there are other ways to get in, and I will be willing to help you out, just please leave me a PM if you need assistance.
And yes this applies to most corporate/job-based LANs as well