As with most things in life, sometimes Free is good, and sometimes not. The Ares filesharing software falls somewhere in between.

Ares Galaxy was the origional version of Ares, and is still available for free, but it is not maintained anymore and new users are often having problems connecting to the network. Not good.

Ares Destiny is also free, which is great. Download speeds are impressive and the software works okay, though not brilliantly. Ares Destiny’s major failing though is in packaging the rather heinous Dealio ad serving software in with the free Ares download. This ad server – that is another name for spyware or malware, by the way – infiltrates your system without you really knowing. And once installed, it is very difficult to get the little blighter off. Also not good.

Ares vista is currently our favorite version of Ares. Its big draw origionally was for users with the windows vista operating system, which makes it difficult to use other P2P programs. But an even bigger reason to go with Ares Vista now is their improved connection techniques. Ares Ultra has adopted this improved connection technique.

Right now, Ares Vista, and Ares Ultra are often the only versions of Ares that are able to connect to the network. Unfortunately, neither one is not quite free either. They do offer a free download which lets the user connect to the network and see all the different music available for downloading, but require registration and payment of around $20 before you can actually download anything. Not quite free, but if you can spare $20 its better than any of the 100% free versions that are available today.

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