Ares not connecting - problem solved
Ares connecting to the network is once again getting to be a problem, causing much frustration to new users of Ares. The popular P2P filesharing program comes with a list of IP addresses to use for the initial connection. These are snodes. Once the software has connected to the network for the first time, it gathers it’s own list of IP addresses of other users that are logged on and keeps that list to connect the next time you start Ares back up.Unfortunately, some of the older versions of Ares, like Ares Galaxy, have not been updating their initial list of snodes. Some friends that are knowledgable about this tell me that the incidence of new users having problems with Ares connecting is skyrocketing. They say it happened in late 2006, December 2007, and July 2008, but is even worse now. I found out when I installed Ares on my new laptop and couldn’t connect.Fortunately, my friends were able to point me to some of the newer versions of Ares that are constantly updating their snodes. So like me, many other frustrated users of Ares Galaxy have been finding their way to Ares Vista. Ares Vista connects pretty much instantly for me, so if you’re having trouble with some other version connecting, go give them a try.
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