Belkin Firewall interfers with ARES

one way is to turn the firewall off completely but chances are what you'll need to do is portforward ares port which you can find out the port in the ares program ...i think its under options or something to that effect. anyway you can port forward that port or you can set an exception in the firewall itself. i find portforwarding to be much less of a headache though. i think for you to portforward u should have a gaming or services option on your belkin or even a portforwarding option. follow the directions given there.