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 cnodes. 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 cnodes. 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, and again in December 2007, but is even worse now. I found out when I installed Ares on my new laptop and couldn’t connect. Fortunately, they were able to point me to some of the newer versions of Ares that are constantly updating their cnodes. So like me, many other frustrated users of Ares Galaxy have been finding their way to Ares Vista and Ares Ultimate where they have better luck with Ares connecting to the network.
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