I’ve been using Ares successfully for a while now. I love how easy it is download my favorite music. Of course I share some too: that’s what this game is all about, isn’t it?

Anyway recently I’ve been having some trouble in connected. I fire up Ares and wait. And wait. And wait some more. It’s been taking around 20 minutes to get connected at the moment, our all I’m wanting to do is start up, set it and leave it.

Yesterday I started Ares and it didn’t connect all day. I started again this morning, but again a 30 minute wait. Am I doing something wrong? I’ve tried reinstalling Ares, but that didn’t work. I tried installing a new version of Ares – Ares Vista – but again, while that helped it didn’t work.

So now I come to you, friends. Can anyone tell me how I can get around this frustrating problem, and make Ares connect consistently. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

EDIT: since I wrote this post, I’ve been contacted by the very helpful Dave. Dave pointed me to a number of articles on the web dealing with this problem. Each of these concluded that the answer was to download something called AresConnect. AresConnect doesn’t replace the Ares utility, but works alongside to make it connect more efficiently.

I downloaded AresConnect, and I can say I’m impressed! Everything seems to be working just fine. I’ll report back if there are any problems, but so far so good.