A plug-in for the Ares file sharing program to boost its download performance.

Pros: Ares Galaxy Turbo Accelerator is a plug-in to improve the performance of the Ares file-sharing program. On slow connections it significantly improves the speed of downloading and reduces the time of downloading. Moreover, on flaky connections that frequently drop or disconnect, the download performance is significantly improved because Galaxy Turbo Accelerator manages those downloads automatically (i.e. starting / stopping as required). The same thing happens on computer restart when you do not need to explicitly restart the Ares program, Galaxy will automatically resume incomplete downloads because the configuration at shut down (or when program is closed) is saved automatically and reloaded on computer startup. It also searches multiple sources and search performance is improved. Competed files and corrupted or bad files are automatically cleared so that user has less things to worry about when downloading. A very small memory footprint (the program sits in the system tray) ensures that when running it does not affect system performance at all.

Cons: Typical interface with the standard buttons. Limited user ability to modify settings. Marginal performance improvement for fast connections. During user idle periods (for example when you are just reading or viewing a web page but not actually transferring information over the internet) it does not utilize all the available bandwidth. If it did it would have performed better.

Overall: 4 stars. Fair amount of acceleration for slow connections. Marginal improvement for fast connections. Some extra useful features, but not customizable.