I’ve used Ares Galaxy for many years now. I love to share music, I admit that’s a large part of what goes on; I have hugely eclectic tastes in music and in order to keep my catalog fresh, I need downloads on a regular basis. Ares Galaxy does everything I need to.

Or at least it did. Because recently I’ve had real trouble trying to get connected to the network with it. No connection means no file sharing. Essentially, 50% of the time Ares Galaxy is useless. A friend suggested that I try Ares Ultimate, and while it connects a little better – and it looks and operates much better than the original Ares Galaxy – it still isn’t perfect, I’m still looking at a 10 to 20 minute wait before I can successfully connect. This kind waiting is good for my stress levels!

I did a little more searching, and I discovered that Google is absolutely full of people searching for the phrase “Ares Connecting”. To my joy I saw that a lot of the results gave a solution! The solution was a little app called Ares Connect.

Ares Connect was designed by people who were just as frustrated as I am in trying to make Ares connect. The application works alongside your existing Ares client, and requires no uninstallation of programs you are used to using. Download and installation are both easy processes, and I literally have had no connection problems since I installed. Well done those boys across at Ares Connect.