As a longtime user and fan of Ares Galaxy, I’ve noticed that the handy little filesharing application has been getting more inconsistent when trying to connect to the Ares Network. Just look at this chart of people searching Google for the term Ares connecting.
When I fire up the app I get a little tense wondering what will happen. Sometimes I’m thankful to find it connects instantly, but that is getting to be quite rare. Sometimes it connects after 10-20 minutes. And sometimes I can leave it open overnight only to find in the morning that it still hasn’t connected.
I tried downloading different versions of Ares from www.officialares.com. Ares Vista claims to have a better connection scheme and it did seem to work a lot better for me, but still leaves me hanging sometimes.
I’ve kinda lived with this situation for months because I do truly like Ares, but last week a friend told be about a neat little solution called AresConnect. This little utility solved the problem and now Ares fires up instantly every time! Better yet, it is not a new install of Ares, but a utility that fixes the old connection files of your current install. You don’t reinstall Ares. And it works with all previous versions of Ares. So, if you are like I was and getting totally frustrated waiting for Ares to connect before you do some filesharing, check out www.AresConnect.com.