[Tip] Using Loop Back To Connect To Your Room

Using the "loopback interface" to join your room

To enter your chat room using this interface you need to enter the room under a slightly modified name, this means you have to either use WinMX 3.53+ or some other chat client that allows you to join a custom channel name.

To calculate the channel name you need to enter first take the room name, without the last bit on it, for example "RoomName_827261AA1A2A" you would get "RoomName" and also take the last 4 digits of it (the "1A2A" in this example)

Once you have your RoomName and 1A2A you then insert _0100007F in to the middle, so in this example we would get RoomName_0100007F1A2A.

Here are a few more examples

Loopback changed into the Hex WinMX uses: [using normal loop back 127.0.0.1]
RoomName_A71B193C1A2A > RoomName_0100007F1A2A
Some Test Room_4D5291B50003 > Some Test Room_0100007F0003
Example Room_45AB874A1A2B > Example Room_0100007F1A2B

Loopback changed into the Hex WinMX uses: [using router loop back 198.162.0.1]
RoomName_A71B193C1A2A > RoomName_01A2C61A2A
Some Test Room_4D5291B50003 > Some Test Room_01A2C6F0003
Example Room_45AB874A1A2B > Example Room_01A2C61A2B

You can also enter the number in 'raw' form as shown here:
RoomName_A71B193C1A2A > RoomName_127.0.0.1:6698
Some Test Room_4D5291B50003 > Some Test Room_127.0.0.1:3
Example Room_45AB874A1A2B > Example Room_127.0.0.1:6699
NOTE: The numbers above must have the Local IP (127.0.0.1) with then the ':' then port number (6698, 6699, or any number you use) to work.