Mobile Tech Reviews

I thought that I was a pretty knowledgeable Ares user. But when I had major trouble getting Ares connecting again after a brief down period I was a little stumped. Fortunately Google is my friend and I after a brief search around some Internet forums and notice boards I knew that I was not alone. This is one of the beauties of Ares: there’s always someone with the same problem (and invariably they’ve solved it, too).

Apparently the problems in getting Ares connecting properly started to emerge in late 2006. In December 2007 they reappeared and now they’re back with a vengeance.

The problem seems to be based around something called a ‘cnode’. These cnodes are the initial IP addresses that Ares uses when it starts up; it is these that really get Ares connecting to the outside world in the first place. Some of the older implementations of the Ares software – old, worn, classics like Ares Galaxy – were simply not repopulating this list of cnodes, so when you restarted you’d get a series of dud IP addresses to connect to.

Newer versions of Ares – superstars like Ares Vista and Ares Ultimate – just update this list of cnodes constantly and so you’ll have no trouble getting Ares connecting just as it should.