It is sometime a little difficult to let go of something that you know and trust. So it is with the Ares Galaxy P2P filesharing software. I have known and trusted this version of Ares for a long time now and I have had no reason to change; this is the original brand name of the Ares software – it is to Ares software what Kleenex is to tissues. Nothing could possibly be better than Ares Galaxy, could it?

Oh yes. My complacency with Ares Galaxy matched the software’s complacency with itself. The new crop of filesharing software contains some absolute gems which do most things as well as the old Giant Ares Galaxy, and some things markedly better. One thing that I noticed straight away was that implementations like Ares Ultra, Ares Ultimate and Ares Vista all offer customer support. This was something that Ares Galaxy could never bring itself to do. What I didn’t know at the time was that these newer versions are better at connecting to the network. This becomes important when some of the startup servers are down and users have problems with Ares connecting.

Where there is good there is also bad. I looked at Ares Destiny and Ares Gold last year and they were the versions that helped me decide to stick with the decrepit Ares Galaxy; not only are they inferior versions that appear to be attempting to cashing in on the name, they also come with the added ‘bonus’ of nasty adware.

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