I need some more info. Open Help -> Debug Window. When I connect to the silcroad server, I see these lines (with some omitted): account: Connecting to account astor@silcroadg3c3mtu6.onion. dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for 127.0.0.1 dnsquery: IP resolved for 127.0.0.1 proxy: Attempting connection to 127.0.0.1 proxy: Connecting to silcroadg3c3mtu6.onion:6667 via 127.0.0.1:9150 using SOCKS5 socks5 proxy: Connection in progress socks5 proxy: Connected. socks5 proxy: Able to read. proxy: Connected to silcroadg3c3mtu6.onion:6667 You should see a similar sequence of events. At which step does it fail?