Hi,
Yeah, I already saw that link and none of them work.
I have just noticed that each time I close Ares down and then reopen it, it connects for about 3 minutes and allows me to download then goes off again, but uploads just continue. Its just my download connection that keeps stopping.
I've even uninstalled Ares and reinstalled incase it was a glitch in the installation process, but that doesn't seem to have changed anything.
If it's not avast! thats blocking it must be the firewall, but I've gone into that and put Ares as an exception (as well as avast! as well), so I'm just baffled!