Sometimes there’s nothing for it but to throw out the old and welcome in the new. This is what had to happen with Ares Ultimate (the new) in favor of Ares Galaxy (the very, very old).
I was having trouble getting Ares connecting yet again. This happened a lot in late 2007 and 2006 for some reason, and there has clearly never been a satisfactory resolution. Apparently – so someone who knows about these things tells me – it’s to do with the list of connected nodes that Ares keeps in its memory. When Ares fires up it remembers these ‘good’ nodes and Ares connecting is just a matter of talking to these good nodes and establishing the relationship. Unfortunately the old Ares Galaxy was remembering an old list and, when it started up, there were problems with Ares not connecting.
Getting Ares connecting again was reasonably simple: I dumped the old version and picked up Ares Ultimate. It was a toss up between that and Ares Vista. Ares Ultimate just took my fancy (and I don’t have Windows Vista, though that doesn’t appear to be a requirement for it to work). I must say I couldn’t be happier with my choice; I wish I just done it before!
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