Why Won’t Ares Connect? Help Me!

I’m at my wits end trying to get Ares Galaxy to connect to the Ares network. I’ve tried everything I could think of, even a full reinstall of my system (which took up most of the day for my cousin who knows more about these things than I do).

Sometimes I turn on the system and Ares will connect after 10 minutes or so. Unfortunately a 10 minute wait is rather on the better end of this scale. At the other end is a wait often exceeding five or six hours. Not good for my nerves!

I even tried using a different client: I picked Ares Ultimate from the Official Ares website. It worked well for a while, and I liked it more than Ares Galaxy, but in the end I had the same connection problems. Oh why won’t Ares connect?

In my desperation, I started to search the web for various ways around this problem. Something I’ve come across is called AresConnect and it claims to solve the problem of I’m facing. Does anyone have any experience with this? Are there any alternatives?

Update: I took the plunge and installed AresConnect. It turns out this is a very good move, and Ares Galaxy connected almost instantly. It was to be true, so I turned off and restarted. Again, instant connection. This was definitely not what I was expecting! I’ll report back if anything changes, but for now it seems that the problem is solved. Yipeee!!