Download Ares Gold

There are 3 possible reasons why Ares Gold cannot establish a connection to the Ares network.

Your computer is not connected to the Internet

If you can send and receive email and browse the Internet, you are connected to the Internet. If not, you will need to establish an Internet connection by following the instructions provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Ares Gold is denied access to the Internet by a firewall

If you are using a software firewall such as ZoneAlarm, McAfee Desktop Firewall, or Norton Personal Firewall, you will be prompted to allow or deny Ares Gold access to the Internet. This may happen several times because Ares Gold needs to establish a number of outgoing and incoming connections.

You will need to accept all requests by Ares Gold to access the Internet.

If you denied Ares Gold access to the Internet by mistake, you can reset the permission rules in the control panel of your firewall.

You are running Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) without the necessary patches

There are 2 patches available to improve P2P connectivity on systems running Windows XP SP2.

The first patch is from Microsoft and can be downloaded here.

The second patch is a third party patch to increase the number of available TCP connections. Following are instructions on how to download and install the third party patch.

• Download and unzip the third party patch
• Run the patch by double-clicking the file EvID4226Patch.exe
• Press the c key to change the limit of connections
• Type 50 and press enter
• Press the y key to confirm the changes
• Press the y key to allow the patching
• When Windows pops up a dialog to prompt you to restore the original file, click the Cancel button
• Confirm your choice in the next Windows popup dialog by clicking the Yes button
• Press any key to close the patch window